Craving Italian food? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the best high-end Italian restaurants around Boston, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of the best spots to fulfill your urges. Topping the list is Tresca. Located at 233 Hanover St. (between Richmond Street and Board Alley.) in North End, the Italian s...
READ MOREThe beginnings of the Italian-American Civic Association developed its deep roots in this city, appropriately, under a tree more than 80 years ago on West Prospect Street. Four men, three born in Italy and one a first-generation American with Italian parents, shared their enjoyment of conversation and a friendly game of pinochle after toiling at th...
READ MOREOne of MGM Springfield’s two fine-dining operations, Cal Mare is the gaming resort’s acknowledgement of Italian food’s near-universal appeal. Located off the main casino, Cal Mare's bright and airy open-plan layout lets suggestions of slot machine honky-tonk filter in. A proscenium kitchen delivers behind-the-scenes perspectives; a mostly tables-an...
READ MOREBoston, prepare to embark upon a compelling maritime journey at the launch of our newest restaurant: La Pescheria. Join us for the launch on April 26, and come back soon for the menu! OUR MISSION La Pescheria’s concept revolves around relationships. With every single dish, we hope to illustrate four powerful connections we have with the sea: 1. Ita...
READ MOREThe endless attention given its worst day–the 1990 robbery which saw a pair of thieves disguised as police officers steal 13 works of art including those by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Manet and Degas, to this day the most expensive property theft in history–makes it easy to forget that the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston still exhibits great art...
READ MOREIf that sounds extreme, it's only because the city’s oldest residential neighborhood matters that much to its residents, and to the city at large. The labyrinthine, lilliputian North End (square mileage: 0.36), first settled in the mid-1600s, today embodies Boston’s IG-worthy charms, from its cobblestoned streets to its European-inspired brick town...
READ MOREMonday, April 29, 2019. STARTS 6:00 pm, ENDS 8:00 pm. LOCATION: CAS 224 725 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215. Public Screening of "1938: When We Discovered We Were No Longer Italian" Part of the Holocaust through Film series. A discussion with director Pietro Suber will follow the screening. The documentary goes through the events that led from t...
READ MOREJoe Bellino was sitting in an electrical engineering class at the Naval Academy in November 1960 when he was summoned by the school’s superintendent. Mr. Bellino, Navy’s star halfback, thought he was in trouble. The superintendent’s office was filled with people, including two sports reporters and an admiral, who read a telegram from the Downtown A...
READ MOREL’On. La Marca ha trascorso a Boston un intenso fine settimana per partecipare a una serie di iniziative che le hanno consentito di stabilire molteplici contatti con diverse espressioni della nostra comunità. Venerdì sera, appena arrivata nella città del Massachusetts, si è immediatamente spostata al Club Italia, dove ha portato il suo saluto all’i...
READ MOREThursday, April 25 at 6:00pm to 8:00pm. Gasson Hall, Room 305, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467. This talk will tell the story of how one hundred illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy by the Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) went missing for hundreds of years, and how their dramatic acquisition for the newly unified German nation by the art h...
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