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Since it's technically illegal to sell food from a truck in NYC, we've been seeing a dramatic rise in the number of higher-end food carts. Well, at least higher quality than the standard halal or hot dog cart. Food carts are legal in NYC, as long as you have the right permits and licenses. One of the newer food carts is Li-Sal's Italian Kitche...

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by Rachel Leah Blumenthal   Bar Mezzana, a "coastal Italian restaurant," is slated to open in spring 2016 at 360 Harrison Ave., within the Sepia condo building in the Ink Block complex, the forthcoming restaurant's owners announced via press release today.   The team — married couple Colin Lynch and Heather Kennaway Lynch, along with...

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by Kim Mikus   A trip to Japan sparked Tony Volpentesta's entrepreneurial ideas to launch a business making Italian cannolis. Volpentesta was very interested in the simplicity of the food while he visited Japan a couple of years ago. The trip also encouraged him to dive into his Italian roots.   He started making pasta, cannoli a...

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By Karen Brune Mathis   Piada Italian Street Food is bringing its piadas, pastas and salads to Florida and its first location will be in the new Town Center Promenade. The 30-acre Promenade of restaurants, retail stores, hotels and apartments is slated for development along Town Center Parkway opposite the St. Johns Town Center.  ...

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By Dana Afana Metro Detroit could see five new Italian chain restaurants in the next couple of years, only this one has a drive-through option. Fazoli's restaurant, which has been around since 1988, is a fast-casual restaurant known for its breadsticks but also serves pasta, sandwiches, salads, pizza and more.   "Most of the drive-thro...

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di Riccardo Chioni   Per accogliere le migliaia di visitatori della 38.ma edizione del Winter Fancy Food Show al Moscone Center, ieri San Francisco ha sfoderato una giornata decisamente primaverile che ha favorito una eccezionale affluenza in quella che e' la vetrina internazionale delle specialità alimentari. Il Fancy Food Show dal 195...

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Many consider cooking a form of art. And few would deny that what Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi are concocting in their kitchen at Torrisi is anything less than that. But they, along with their partner Jeff Zalaznick, have extended their art beyond the kitchen. What is fine dining in NYC? What can be novel or innovative in an industry drowning in...

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By Lester Haines The owners of a fast-food truck are bemoaning their ejection from a New York horse racing track, after the powers that be deemed its snappy name "Wandering Dago" a tad offensive to Italian Americans.   Wandering Dago proprietors Andrea Loguidice and Brandon Snooks (pictured below) had secured a spot to sell their nosh to pu...

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By Teresa Politano Your bread arrives with no presumption at Rezza. It's accompanied by a simple bowl of olive oil, adorned by just a smattering of sea salt.   But that bread is from Sullivan Street Bakery, a New York favorite with a cultlike following, a bakery that describes its bread with reverence, in the poetry of the sommelier (nutty...

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De Cecco, the world's third largest manufacturer of pasta, was inducted this summer into the Italian Trade Commission's Hall of Fame, recognizing De Cecco's enduring commitment and contribution to the Italian food industry in the United States. The recognition came as De Cecco celebrates 120 years of success in the American marketplace.   De...

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