by Stefano Salimbeni "If you love what you do, you don't work a day in your life," says Angelo Locilento as he somewhat reluctantly leaves his post at the counter of Tutto Italiano, where long lines of customers from all races, ages and walks of life wait to be served either some special product directly imported from Italy or some freshly...
READ MOREVilla Enterprises, multi-brand restaurant operator and franchisor celebrating 50 years in business, announced Villa Italian Kitchen is now open at Colorado Mills Shopping Center at 14500 W Colfax Ave, Lakewood, CO. The new Villa restaurant is conveniently located at the Food Court and features a variety of freshly made menu items daily. "O...
READ MORECulinary Historian Dr. Merrianne Timko will document the history of cuisine in cities such as Florence, Rome, and Venice during the Renaissance at her lecture on Tuesday, October 14, at noon, as part of Lone Star College-Montgomery's Lyceum Speaker's Series. Dr. Timko, who works as the data standards manager for The Museum of Fine Arts Hou...
READ MOREWhen Tommy Byrd opened Tommy's Italian American Grill in 1992, the local dining industry might as well have been Mars compared to what's since popped up to eat on this red-dirted patch of planet Earth. Undaunted by time's unflinching trigger-finger, Byrd recently took a deep breath and walked away from a lucrative seat within the cozy conf...
READ MOREby The Italian Trade Agency On Wednesday, Dec. 3, the Italian Trade Agency and the Italian Association of Geographic Indication Consortia hosted journalists at Osteria del Principe to educate and promote Italian products. The Italian Trade Commissioner, Pier Paolo Celeste, executive director for the U.S., said, "The Italian Trade...
READ MORELittle Italy will soon have a new spot for sipping wine and nibbling on appetizers. Pane e Vino is set to open in a South High Street property directly next door to Cafe Gia, an Italian restaurant owned by Gia Blattermann along with her husband, the restaurant's executive chef, Gianfranco Fracassetti. The location is not a coincidence. Bla...
READ MOREby Kevin Kessler I had just taken the bus from Williamsburg and was now having visions of an Italian nonna feeding her husband nearly every bite of food on his plate. It was six o'clock on a Monday and I was in Forest Hills, Queens, enjoying the simple but excellent bruschetta laid before me. Sitting under a vaulted ceiling in a r...
READ MOREby Ellen Fort Ghirardelli Square is heating up, with an influx of new tenants designed to restore it to the vibrant destination it once was. Not only will it be the destination of a full-service restaurant from local favorite Le Marais, but it will be the location of Berkeley-native Jonathan Waxman's first foray into the San Francisco dini...
READ MOREdi Liliana Rosano A New York e dintorni Rosanna Di Michele è diventata una celebrità. Una faccia che è ormai un'icona, grazie allo stile personalissimo che la contraddistingue: capelli nero corvino racchiusi in una frangia stilosa, in perfetto abbinamento con la montatura degli occhiali in celluloide. Sorriso e calore tutto italiano, Rosa...
READ MOREby Jere Downs Many Louisville diners have fond memories of family meals at Melillo's, a family-owned Italian restaurant that dished out enormous portions of pasta and homemade meatballs topped with rich marinara sauce, eggplant parmesan, crusty bread and a three layer, towering nut-encrusted Italian cream cake. Bringing back that...
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