When you think of Italian your mind might automatically go to Boston’s North End, but the Phantom Gourmet shows us that you can find high quality Italian cuisine all over Greater Boston.   Rosetti in Lynn is a beautiful and comfortable Italian restaurant offering a wide range of dining options. Tosca in Hingham is one of the region’s most st...

A native Sicilian — and former professional basketball player — will open an authentic Sicilian restaurant with a touch of Oregon flair in the Pearl District later this month. Francesco Inguaggiato, a chef and former professional basketball player for the Italian League in Italy, recently moved to Portland and will open his third restaurant, B...

by Laurie Werner   When the food-focused Expo Milano 2015 opens this Friday, the centerpiece of the USA Pavilion will be on wheels: six food trucks known as Food Truck Nation will showcase a sampling of regional American cuisine. "We thought it was the right way to represent what's happening in America," explains Mitchell Davis, Chief Creati...

As immigrants from the different regions of Italy settled throughout the United States, many brought with them a distinct regional Italian culinary tradition. Many of these foods and recipes developed into new favorites for the local communities and later for Americans nationwide.   Italian Immigrants came to Wyoming in the late nineteenth a...

by Mark Antonation   The neighborhood many are calling LoHi these days hasn't always been the epicenter of hip, destination dining out. Before Old Major, Uncle, Williams & Graham and Highland Tap & Burger set up shop, the area was a modest, heavily Hispanic neighborhood with a few old Victorians and Denver Squares rising over stretch...

Two Chicago eateries landed on TimeOut magazine's list of best Italian restaurants in America. Osteria Langhe in Logan Square was listed at number 15, with the publication describing the restaurant as "warm and cozy, and you'll want to order a bottle of well-chosen wine for the table before diving into the food."    "The plin, mini...

by Denise Allabaugh   Dino's Pizza Express will open at 10 a.m. Monday in downtown Wilkes-Barre. The take-out only restaurant at 41 S. Main St. next to Thai Thai will sell new New York-style pizza slices for 99 cents and $1.99 with a topping, said owner Dominic Buonsante. Customers also can participate in a "Slice out hunger" campa...

by Dave Desimone   When it comes to Italy's famed extra-virgin olive oils,terroir plays a critical role just as in wine. The authentic, top-quality oil comes exclusively from handpicked, freshly cold-pressed olives grown naturally only in Italy. Carlo Dozzi, a Pittsburgh-based importer and owner of Buon Sapore at One Oxford Centre, Down...

While enjoying Orsetto the other evening I stated emphatically, at least a few times, "I want to eat here every night." I could be exaggerating, but not by much. Partners Joshua Governale and Fred Peightal have given the whimsical pig of Cafe Genevieve a stylish new bear brother at Orsetto. What a delight. The location on Center Street now shines....

"This town is like a little island," says La Parolaccia Osteria Italiana General Manager Mario Guterrez about the East San Gabriel Valley city of Claremont.And Guterrez seems to know each islander by name, extending handshakes and warm greetings to each table as though he's hosting a family reunion. The walls of the dining room are filled with Ital...