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Three proven local restaurant operators are launching new concepts. The family behind longtime local fave Ferraro's will debut its new venture, Pizza Forte, this spring, offering Roman-style pizza, Hofmann hot dogs, meatballs and more at two locations—inside Sunset Station and at the Hard Rock Hotel.   Chada Thai & Wine creator Bank Atch...

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By Travis Mitchell Located on Cleveland Park's main strip, Vace Italian Deli (3315 Connecticut Avenue NW) is part deli, part pizzeria, and part Italian market. Open since 1976, the small storefront is the ideal spot to grab a slice of pizza or stock up on homemade pasta. There's also a location in Bethesda (4705 Miller Avenue), though this story p...

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By Valerie L. Valdez The first image that comes to Monica Macy's mind when she thinks of her "Nonna," Italian for grandmother, is her hands. "I remember Nonna Maria's hands covered with flour working the dough for making pasta.   For her, cooking was showing love," Macy said in her Harker Heights home. As a girl growing up in Novoledo,...

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by Claudia Astarita   The well-known Gambero Rosso - the world's authority on Italian food, wine and travel, has published its third edition of the Italian "Street Food" guide. Among the great variety of bakeries, food trucks, panini and crepes places, 22 businesses were awarded as "Regional Champions".   La Luge (Courmayeur) is one o...

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In the first century of Italian-American cuisine, nothing north of Naples mattered. The vast majority of the Italian immigrants who migrated to this country in the late 1800s and early 1900s came from their motherland's hot and impoverished south, a land of red sauce made from heat-loving San Marzano tomatoes and mozzarella from the milk of indigen...

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By Teresa Gubbins An Italian street-food chain from Ohio is bringing a unique wrap-type sandwich to Texas. Piada Italian Street Food will debut its first Dallas-area location in Frisco, at 3301 Preston Rd., on the endcap of the Centre at Preston Ridge development.   Scheduled to open in November, it will not be Piada's only location in Texa...

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By Jenna Pelletier The last thing Rhode Island needed was another Italian-American restaurant, I thought. All angles seemed to be covered, from the classic Federal Hill restaurants to upscale Al Forno to no-frills Mike's Kitchen in Cranston. What more could another one offer? Come to find out, the relatively new Rosalina, in downtown Pro...

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by Dallas Heltzell   Both in its previous and current incarnations, a pioneering spirit has propelled a restaurant space in the Cottonwood Square shopping center in Greeley. For 25 years, the spot at 2400 17th St. was home to Potato Brumbaugh's, whose menu reflected the Western ranching culture and whose name was taken from a character...

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by Bud Kennedy   Valentine's should not be limited to one night. Some restaurants, such as Ellerbe Fine Foods in Fort Worth, always seem like Valentine's. The Louisiana-influenced restaurant features a short, ever-changing menu of a couple of steaks and seafood, but it shines most at New Orleans-style dishes involving shrimp, seafo...

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Portland may not have a Little Italy like New York or Boston, but it certainly has a slice of the old country with chef Lee Skawinski's Vignola Cinque Terre.   Even the stroll down Wharf Street, with its precarious cobblestones and lively foot traffic, makes for a more authentic experience. The entrance of the restaurant on Dana Street is dr...

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