by Joseph S. Pete   An Italian beef and Italian sausage restaurant beloved in the South Suburbs for more than four decades is finally opening a Northwest Indiana location.   Enzo's Restaurant, which is known for charbroiling freshly house-made sausage over lump coal, is taking over the former Schererville Gyros, which closed earlier t...

By Kathy Shiels Tully   Falling in love — with a man and a business idea — wasn't Olivia Torretta's plan when she left Wakefield to study abroad for two years in Italy. But she did, importing them both home. In July, she and Jonathan Santini, her Roman-born husband, opened up Cibo (pronounced "chee-bo") Cafe & Bistro in the Greenwoo...

by Paul Franson Cyclists and Clif Family Farm and Clif Bar founders Gary Erickson and Kit Crawford have spent many days cycling through the Northern Italian Dolomites, where they were fueled by the bruschetta made by their friends Nene and Paolo.   The memory of these bruschetta traveled back to the Napa Valley with Gary and Kit, who sought...

  WTI Magazine #77    2016 March 18Author : Paola Lovisetti Scamihorn      Translation by:   This pork roast is an appetizing and inviting main course to enjoy with family and friends. I know pork is excluded from the dinner table in many cultures, but in Italy it has long been an important part of our culinary tradition, particularly in the nor...

With authentic Italian food and live Italian music, Italianfest brings an air of Italy to the Tristate. The celebration kicks off with a bocce ball tournament at Pompilio's Restaurant (600 Washington Ave., Newport, pompiliosrestaurant.com) at 4 p.m.   On Wednesday. The four-day fest includes games, kids' rides, a cooking and pizza-eating con...

Twelve members of The Italian Club of Centennial High School in Howard County were among the ravioli makers October 18th in Saint Leo's School Hall. The Club, with 25 members, participates in philanthropic activities and other events such as restaurant night, parties where they cook Italian food, and Italian movie night.   The group particip...

Goodfella's, an award-winning brick oven-baked pizza and family-style Italian-American food restaurant, is coming to the Livingston Mall food court this December. Besides its award-winning pizza, Goodfella's menu includes everything from soups, salads, heros, wraps and Italian hot-pressed paninis to pastas, entrées and brick oven rolls. For de...

Tunu and Yona Puri, backed by Zuma co-founder Arjun Waney, have converted their 1-year-old Lippi into this Mediterranean coast-inspired Italian concept. "With Lippi having over 200 seats, it was too big to work," says Tunu. "We believed a smaller concept at 100 to 120 seats would be received better. It's really about the flow and the whole experie...

by Michael Russell   The new Sicilian restaurant coming to the former Fratelli space in Portland's Pearl District is set to open next week. Bellino Trattoria Siciliana comes from chef-owner Francesco Inguaggiato, a Sicilian native who owns two other Italian restaurants in Texas.   The highlights assaggini, or Sicilian tapas, such...

by Claudia Astarita   A huge amount of food is wasted every day everywhere in the world. For the Italian National Consortium for recovery and recycling paper and board packaging Comieco this trend is unacceptable, and this is the reason why they have decided to launch in Milan the initiative "Doggy Bag – Eat your Leftovers".   In line...