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I like to revisit a restaurant, especially a long-established one like Enzo’s on the Lake, whenever there is a major change. The recent sale of the business by original owner Jo Anne Perlini, who opened it in 1980 with her then-husband, Enzo, to Orlando dentist John Khalil is about as major as changes get. So it’s time to take another look. But for...

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Rosanna’s Italian Kitchen in Albany is under new ownership. The owners of Albany’s The Hollow Bar + Kitchen, Dora and Michael Philip, along with Chef Rachel Mabb and industry veterans, Jory Leanza and Elizabeth McCann, are buying the restaurant. “We love what the Bongiornos’ created in 1978 and what Brianne Baggetta and Tim Dillon reimagined and br...

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In April, Ciao Bella Ristorante Italiano celebrated 10 years of bringing unique, world-class Italian food and customer service to Port Clinton. The restaurant’s longevity is greatly due to the talents of Chef Paul Matthews, who trained in Europe and brings his customers an authentic taste of foreign fare. “I worked for some really great chefs in An...

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The cheesesteak, conceived in South Philadelphia, will be one of the main attractions at this year’s 9th Street Italian Market Festival, a highlight of the annual South Philly social calendar. It will host its first-ever cheesesteak competition, whose field of entrants will be determined by public nominations. Organizers said the shops will be invi...

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After 41 years, Joey DeCuffa has sold a majority stake in the restaurants that bear his name on Carrier Circle and have earned a reputation as among Central New York’s best for Italian dining. The fine-dining Joey’s Classic Italian and its upstairs casual-menu sister operation, Pronto Joey’s, will be operated by Bill Cleary, a Cortland businessman....

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Mario’s Italian Lemonade is back. The famous shaved ice stand, 1068 W. Taylor St., quietly reopened Monday night, according to its Facebook page. Owners declared Mario’s was “open for summer” as customers lined up for frozen lemonade despite rainy, 40-degree weather. Mario’s has been a mainstay in the neighborhood since 1954, when Mario DiPaolo Jr....

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Boston is well-known for its vibrant and ever-evolving culinary scene, with new chefs and new openings making headlines on the regular, but it’s the city’s oldest neighborhood, the North End, that is its most food-centric. Settled in the 1630s, the single-square-mile neighborhood is a study of 5 centuries of architectural development, from the circ...

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There are plenty of icons that represent the quirky side of Rhode Island: sweet caffeine-spiked milk, a massive termite on the interstate, platters of deep-fried squid punctuated by banana peppers. But it was Al Forno, forty-three years ago, that told a different story of this small state: one that was deeply rooted in the arts and which made an im...

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At Brooklyn Roots in Bay Ridge, on a wintery Saturday night, the crowded room teemed with conviviality, from the happy-go-lucky bartender, to the friendly waitstaff working the floor, to the open kitchen in back where the crew prepared the type of Italian food that has generated similar excitement every night since opening in October of 2021. The I...

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I love traveling and visiting new places. When you are on vacation or when you travel and visit different places and cities, you are a different person. You can be whatever you want because you incorporate yourself into some other world, a world with unique cultural characters and landmarks. You connect with the spirit of the town, the food you con...

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