Prepare you tastebuds and Taste Passport for a day full of fresh, authentic Italian cuisine at the annual Taste of Little Italy on June 20th and 21st. Foodies will eat, sip and stroll their way through the neighborhood sampling culinary delights from more than 30 of San Diego’s top chefs and restaurants.  “Taste of Little Italy has drawn hundreds o...

The much-anticipated Morrone’s N.Y. Deli, Restaurant, Pizzeria and Bakery has a menu, a website, social media pages and — most importantly — an opening date. Did we say much-anticipated? “All day long, people have been asking for weeks when we’re opening,” said owner Ermanno Morrone. Here’s the latest: Morrone’s, 5913 53rd Ave. E., Bradenton, opens...

Rockwell Group has completed its design for Carlotto, the second New York restaurant from Canada-based Toptable Group. Located next door to sister eatery Oceans, the new Italian concept pays homage to the matriarch of the owner’s family and their enduring roots. “Rockwell Group was inspired by classic Italian dining experiences and the existing spa...

Philly foodies will get a taste of great things to come with the opening of “Martorano’s Sicilian Slice” at Rivers Casino Philadelphia. The new pizza shop by celebrity cook and South Philly native Steve Martorano and his wife, Marsha Daley-Martorano, officially opens Wednesday, May 31, at 3 p.m. Complimentary samples of Sicilian Slice pizza will be...

Parmigiano Reggiano is an Italian excellence that has a history of over a thousand years.  Like many other Italian cheeses it is widely used in the preparation of incredible dishes. Great to bite freely or sipping a red wine, seasoning and enters once grated in all Italian pasta sauce, both simple, stuffed or layered.  Still today it is produced fo...

Think about some of the best Italian restaurants in town and chances are, the LaRocca family had something to do with them. The family will be honored Monday with a Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the Best of the Valley Restaurant Awards. The event is hosted by the Fresno chapter of the California Restaurant Association. While all sorts of re...

Legend has it that the tortellino was born to reproduce the navel of Venus asleep in an inn between Bologna and Modena. For sure tortellini, tortelloni and ravioli, for sauce and broth, casoncelli, agnolotti, pansoti or Italian stuffed pasta give an explosive combination of taste that has conquered the whole world. This is true, however it is calle...

It is no surprise that Italian cuisine is a staple in Chicago; much of what we know about it comes down to the core recipes we’ve grown up seeing on TV. Recipes like spaghetti and meatballs, fettuccine alfredo (which, in popular opinion, is not Italian), and lasagna are the core dishes that introduced us to Italian food.  But that’s just the tip of...

The new project Tradizione e Gusto delle Valli di Fiemme e Cembra offers guests visiting this corner of Trentino typical local products of excellence: milk, butter, yogurt and cheeses that smell of flowering pastures and respect for farm animals, such as Puzzone di Moena DOP or Formae Val di Fiemme. Plus, goat cheeses, pasta with selected grains, s...

We all know that you can find plenty of authentic Italian food in Boston’s North End as well as at many other fine-dining establishments sprinkled throughout the city. But did you know that there is an Italian restaurant that is equally as good that is hidden away just outside the city limits in the coastal town of Winthrop, Massachusetts? If you w...