Ever since opening in Lower Manhattan last December, Torrisi Bar & Restaurant has enjoyed status as the hardest reservation in town. A multitude of articles and social media posts are dedicated to helping hack your way to a table inside. Now chef Rich Torrisi and his co-owners from Major Food Group are leveraging that popularity for philanthropic p...

Italian culture is alive and music is in the air in West Harrison once again this weekend at the St. Anthony of Padua Church Festa Italiana. The festivities kick off Friday night and continue through Sunday. The celebration of all things Italian will include food, games and activities for all ages and live music. Proceeds from the Festa will be use...

Capone's Italian Eatery has opened in Penfield. The restaurant, located at 1811 Penfield Road, serves specialty pizza, cold and hot subs, pasta, salads and homemade Italian desserts, including carrot cake and cheesecake. The 1,100-square-foot business is part pizzeria and Italian eatery and part deli, said owner Bryan Dezio, a Penfield native who n...

Restitution Ceremony of a Rare Document to Italy presented by Monuments Men and Women Foundation, June 6, 2023, 11AM. In the period 1945–1951, the Monuments Men and Women found and returned to the rightful owners more than 4 million works of art and cultural objects stolen by the Nazis. Still, hundreds of thousands of objects — including paintings,...

Rochester's Little Italy Historic District (an official city neighborhood and nationally-recognized historic Italian American enclave) will celebrate its 4th Anniversary this Friday, June 2nd, 2023, at noon at Rocky's Italian Restaurant on Jay Street (one of our neighborhood's most iconic and historic Italian American owned businesses.) The Little...

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...

If you’re going up against the mob, you’d better have a gang. The New York Police Department put one together back in 1904. New immigrants, and new kinds of crime, were flooding the city and the old Irish cops on the beat didn’t understand either. It was time to launch a special force. They called it “The Italian Squad.” Paul Moses’ latest book pay...

People from Corning’s sister city in Italy, San Giovanni Valdarno, celebrated their long-lasting friendship with the people of Corning. Corning’s Mayor William Boland and San Giovanni Valdarno’s Mayor Valentina Vadi exchanged loving embraces, gifts, and decide to re-sign their allegiance to one another, that has been intact for 20 years. Mayor Bola...

When we imagine the ideal Sunday dinner Arthur & Sons will forever come to mind. The West Village spot that serves up heaping plates of pasta and stacks of eggplant piled high alongside heavy pours of wine and espresso martinis is casual, fun, homey and somehow very hip with its black and white checked floors and nostalgic posters lining the walls....

Italian designer Piero Lissoni says that American clients are becoming more amenable to investing in detail-oriented architecture as he announces the official opening of Lissoni Architecture in New York City. After a certification process through the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in New York, Lissoni announced the opening of Lissoni Archit...