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THERE’S AN “AIR OF SECRECY” surrounding certain establishments, then there’s Chef Vola’s. This unmarked, cash-only feasting hall has no advertised phone number, email, or website, equated by one New York Times food critic to “a game of hide and seek.” The space comes by it naturally: It was likely once a speakeasy. Before it became a restaurant in...

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Montesacro — the San Francisco-based Italian restaurant that bills itself as the first to serve Roman-style pinsa in the United States — may have gotten its start off a gritty sidestreet in the heart of SoMa. But these days the restaurant finds itself in very different environs: On Saturday, November 26, Montesacro expands for the first time to the...

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Tony and Sonya Marciante, the owners of Chef Tony’s Restaurant, located at 5225 Pooks Hill at Promenade Towers in Bethesda, announced they will blend the Chef Tony’s brand with the “wonderful accolades of Amalfi Restaurant.” Chef Tony’s Restaurant serves seafood, Mediterranean and tapas. Some of its menu items include braised Icelandic cod, “Dad’s...

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It all started out innocently enough, or should I say, normally enough for the professional wrestler known as Luigi Primo. The Texas-based Primo had released clips of his unique form of “pizza wrestling” before and received positive feedback for a style that includes tossing of dough and moves affectionally titled “Rolling out the crust,” “Topping...

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Around here, a conversation about who makes the best Italian bread is the type of debate that can turn into an all-out carbo clash. We all have our favorite, and there’s no changing our minds. Usually it’s what we grew up with, the bakery our parents dragged us to when we were kids. “At the end of the day, people have their customs,” said Mary Kier...

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You may have heard of the 'Feast Of The Seven Fishes' which is a traditional Italian dinner served on Christmas Eve. Well, it's more of a tradition here in the New Jersey/New York/Philly area than it is in Italy for the most part. It was a tradition started hundreds of years ago in coastal towns around Rome and Naples on the Mediterranean Sea. Outs...

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One of the family names that has been synonymous with the Italian Market for a hundred years is the Giordano family. At their new outpost, Venditore by Giordano, Marcello Giordano is taking the next step in the Giordano family legacy. His great grandparents came to America from Italy in 1921 and started the market, and Marcello has grown the family...

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Every time we decide we want something new to eat, we might head for Italian. It is just our nature to do this. Even in New York. We walk in our neighborhood and usually find places to go. But sometimes we want to try something different. Not the same pizza. Of course, here in New York, it is always the same. It looks the same. It tastes the same....

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Today Italian food is a planetary myth. But it was not always so. For a long time the food of our country was considered a poor man's food, bad and unhealthy. This is said by historian Dieter Richter professor at the University of Bremen in "Con gusto. Il Grand Tour della cucina italiana," a beautiful book just released in Italy. According to the a...

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Just at the edge of Manhattan's Little Italy sits a butcher shop virtually frozen in time since it opened in 1923. "I joke many times, I say it's half-museum, half-butcher shop," said Jennifer Prezioso, the butcher, owner, and fourth-ever employee of Albanese Meats & Poultry. "I should charge admission because so many people come in and they're jus...

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