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A second location of Old Fourth Ward Italian restaurant A Mano opens next summer on Sylvan Road in the southwest Atlanta neighborhood of Capitol View, What Now Atlanta first reported. Opened in 2017 at the corner of Ralph McGill Boulevard and Glen Iris Drive, owner George DeMeglio tells Eater he hopes to begin construction on the restaurant this su...

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Italy’s new honorary consul for the state of Georgia was sworn in this week in Miami, officially taking up duties he has been preparing to assume for more than a year. Filiberto Calascibetta leads the Italian practice for the Atlanta office of Rödl & Partner, a tax and advisory firm that helps European companies break into the Southeast U.S. A self...

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“The Gwinnett Chamber and Partnership Gwinnett look forward to advancing our relationship with Italian businesses here and in Italy,” Gwinnett Chamber and Partnership Gwinnett President & CEO Nick Masino said. “Honorary Consul General Calascibetta is already an effective partner in our recruitment efforts, and even joined us on our 2017 recruitment...

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A new Italian restaurant is coming to Warner Robins. Christian Torres is planning to open a second location of his Tifton-based, family-owned Fresco Italiano restaurant. He described the restaurant as casual fine dining. “We want to be that neighborhood place where you can still go during the week and get a plate of lasagna and get a plate of pasta...

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This month, award-winning Chef Jonathan Waxman opened an Italian-inspired restaurant in Atlanta's West Midtown neighborhood. Baffi is currently the New York City chef's second Italian restaurant in the American South, along with Adele's in Nashville.  At Baffi, the spacious dining room gives way to an exposed bar and kitchen, where a wood-fed heart...

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A new Italian restaurant is preparing to open in La Grange in the place where La Buona Vita closed in March. The timing is questionable, since as of Monday, indoor dining still was not allowed at Cook County restaurants per the Tier 3 restrictions of the governor’s coronavirus mitigation plan. La Grange Village President Mark Kuchler told the owner...

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January will see a new family-owned Italian restaurant open in west Cobb. Modena Ristorante Vinoteca promises to be a modern restaurant and wine bar at 3412 Ernest Barrett Parkway, the former site of Vincent’s Italian Restaurante. Vincent's served the community there for over 10 years, according to its Facebook page. The new restaurant is planned t...

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Charley Trippi, one of the most celebrated athletes in Georgia history, turned 99 yesterday. The old warhorse was low key and subdued, advancing age having robbed him of the electric energy and suppleness that once drove him to remarkable athletic achievement.Yet, he was up to blowing out 99 candles on a cake, made by Joyce Phillilps of Winterville...

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Rome's Fiumicino airport said on Thursday it had sealed a deal with Italian airline Alitalia and Delta Air Lines of the United States for the special flights between selected North American cities and the Italian capital from next month. Similar travel "corridors" will also be trialed between Rome and the German cities of Munich and Frankfurt, it s...

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The free-agent forward is finalizing a three-year, $61.5 million contract with the Atlanta Hawks, his agent, Michael Tellem of CAA Sports, told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. Over the past week, the retooling Thunder have made multiple moves, including sending Chris Paul to the Phoenix Suns, Dennis Schroder to the Los Angeles Lakers, Kelly Oubre Jr. to...

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