by Lauren Saria Later this year, two new noodle restaurants will open in a shared space in downtown Phoenix. The split restaurant concepts will be a sort of East-meets-West noodle affair, with one spot serving Japanese ramen and the other offering Italian eats. The restaurants, which both come from entrepreneur and chef Marco Di S...
READ MOREBy Jory Schweers Indian Creek Mall in Beatrice will soon have a new restaurant. Sam and Louie's New York Pizzeria has been sold and will transition into a new Italian eatery in the near future. Florio's Italian Restaurant and Grille will replace the Sam and Louie's franchise. More than a year ago, the original owner of S...
READ MOREBy Andrea Damewood Burrasca's menu offers no pork belly, no truffle butter, no fleeting menu item placed there to please the Yelpers. It's fucking refreshing. Like a puff of oregano-scented air over the streets of SE Clinton, Burrasca is putting out rustic, traditional—and yes, sometimes imperfect—Italian that speaks honestly and without pret...
READ MOREby Getahn Ward A St. Louis-based celebrity chef is bringing his causal Italian concept to Nashville with a location that should open next summer at the OneC1TY mixed-use campus on Charlotte Avenue. Pastaria Nashville will be James Beard Foundation Award-winning chef Gerard Craft's first restaurant outside of his adopted Missouri hometown and...
READ MOREAs part of Italy's "Extraordinary Italian Taste" campaign, aimed to promote authentic Italian food in the United States, the Specialty Food Association announced at a media event in New York City on Wednesday, that Italy will become the first ever partner country of its Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco next year. The show, which runs from J...
READ MOREThe Italian influences in New Orleans are everywhere from St. Joseph's Day to the muffuletta. However, Avo's chef Nick Lama is about to go full-throttle with the green, white , and red. For December, he is rolling out his take on traditional Italian "Feast of the Seven Fishes." Anyone who has logged time with an Italian grandmother can tell yo...
READ MOREItalian Dine-Out may be over, but there are still so many ways to get your Italian fix this summer in NYC. Aside from venturing to Little Italy for amazing food and wine, there are also many places to visit and shop. Little Italy is known for its rich Italian history and culture right here in NYC. Along with the people who live there, many...
READ MOREBy Kevin Litten Restaurateurs in Baltimore and beyond should take note: Little Italy these days is offering a ripe opportunity.The news on Monday that Caesar's Den is closing brings the total number of vacant Little Italy restaurants to five raises the important question of what will emerge to take their space. But in my mind, the question is less...
READ MOREDanny Meyer is gracing the front line as one of NYC's most sought-after restaurateurs. He owns Shake Shack, Blue Smoke and Jazz Standard and the Gramercy Tavern, and his 1985 culinary pride — Union Square Café continues to deliver succulent Italian-American cuisine in a clean, relaxed setting just west of Union Square. Crowned #1 as New York's Mos...
READ MOREI had one of those soul-satisfying, I-love-Baltimore nights a few Saturdays back at Cafe Gia Ristorante, a colorful, cheerful and satisfying Italian restaurant on the corner of High Street and Eastern Avenue. We showed up for early dinner reservations and were whisked right upstairs to the narrow second-floor balcony, which was pretty darn magical...
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