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The U. S. is not only hamburgers and potato chips. They are starting to appreciate pasta as 77percent of Americans have it at least once a week, and 33 percent of them eats it three times a week. Some celebrities openly declared they are in favour of a pasta-based meal as it is healthy, environmentally friendly and promotes a well-balanced nutritio...

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by Danielle Centoni   The old Fratelli space, a Pearl District constant for 15 years, sports a new vintage-urban look thanks to its new tenant, Bellino Trattoria Siciliana, which opens tonight.   Chris Setser of Surface Brokers and Shannon Ponciano of Ponciano Design renovated and redesigned the 2,200-square-foot space, giving it a mo...

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by Nicole Danna   Big Time Restaurant Group has announced the grand opening date for its latest concept, Louie Bossi's Ristorante, Bar & Pizzeria.   The restaurant located at 1032 East Las Olas Boulevard will open in June, a 10,000­-square-­foot restaurant space offers five distinct indoor and outdoor dining experiences including...

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by Darin Moriki   It has been a little less than two weeks since the last meals were served up at Hiroshi Eurasion Tapas and Vino Italian Tapas & Wine Bar before the doors closed at the two DK Restaurant locations in Honolulu's Waterfront Plaza. But it may not be too long before at least one of the two restaurants reopen.   R...

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By Merrill Shindler   Despite the many gastropubs along Second Street in Belmont Shore that keep the street lively and then some, there's a parallel universe of old-school restaurants, dominated by a fair number of red sauce Italian joints that serve the sort of (mostly) Southern Italian cooking so many of us long for, after many a meal of f...

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by A.J. Goldsmith   Every working day Patricia Galli leaves her Buffalo Grove home and heads for Pastificio, where she is the second generation family member to head up the take-home gourmet store specializing in Northern Italian cuisine and pasta. Despite using the Highwood Post Office several times, I had no inkling that Pastificio ex...

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by Shari Puterman   Chaz Eicke, 42, loves a good slice of pizza. Coming from an Italian background, it's no surprise that he takes this signature New Jersey food pretty seriously. "That's where I got the cooking bug," he says of his ethnic upbringing.   Eicke, a physical therapist at Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawk...

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Fazoli's, the nation's largest fast-casual Italian chain, has signed a franchise agreement for its first restaurant in Montgomery, Alabama. Fazoli's, No. 2 on Zagat's list of fast-food restaurants, recently announced an aggressive, five-prong franchise growth strategy. The Montgomery restaurant will be developed by Dr. Rakesh Patel. It is expe...

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by Marakay Rogers   You've been watching those culinary competition shows again. We can tell. You're having nervous breakdowns over fresh pasta. Should you buy it in the grocery store, go to the specialty shop, or make it yourself? Can you possibly get it thin enough running it through the pasta machine?   What did you do with your pa...

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A big name in Italian food in the Chicago Southland has opened its first location in Northwest Indiana. Carla Bolin, whose family ran the Angelo's restaurants in the south suburbs for many decades, picked up the family business by opening Angelo's Fresh Markets in Flossmoor and Tinley Park in recent years. Now she's opened her third Italian-th...

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