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By Casey Logan    In 1910, Antonio and Nunziata Pirruccello emigrated from Sicily. They arrived in Omaha's emergent Little Italy neighborhood, where they started a few businesses, owned a number of properties and raised nine children of various talents. More than a century later, the offspring of those children, and the one surviving s...

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Italy is known for its art. There's Michaelangelo's David. And the Ferrari 250GTO. The Trevi Fountain. And the Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato.   The sculpted arches of the Roman Coliseum. And the sculpted lines of the Lamborghini Muira. Perhaps the Italian passion for art is the reason that so many designers in such a small nation produced so ma...

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by Chad Walsh   After graduating from USC business school, managing Cafe Nell for a year-and-a-half and managing operations at ChefStable for another two-and-a-half more, Kevin Chambers knew it was time to strike out on his own and run his own place.   Last week, that plan became reality when he officially opened the doors to Marmo De...

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Nostrana is often cited as serving one of the city’s most authentic Neapolitan pies, and for good reason. The blistered cornicione and thin crust provide scrumptious, beautiful canvases for the hand-made mozzarella the restaurant makes daily.   There are eight pies on the menu including standouts like the diavola (spicy sausage, mozzarella,...

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by Terry Richard   Simone Moro, an elite among a very rare breed that climbs the world's highest mountains in winter, will make a presentation in Portland on Tuesday, Dec. 2. Here's what Ed Viesturs says about such endeavors in the foreword of Moro's book, "The Call of the Ice," recently translated from Italian to English and published...

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by Mattie John Bamman   After crushing Reddit, the Gabagool food cart has been a buzzy underground spot for Italian street food on N Mississippi Avenue, and earlier this year, it shuttered and announced plans to go brick and mortar. Now owner-chef Ryan Sherman tells Eater he's signed a lease at 7911 N Lombard Ave., near Leisure Public House...

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PORTLAND OPERA'S season finale rounds out this week with the end of one opera's run and the continuation of another. Rossini's The Italian Girl in Algiers, a 200-plus-year-old madcap comedy, picks up where Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1879 Eugene Onegin left off with its final Portland Opera performance Tuesday, July 26.   Both shows bring fre...

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We are lucky. As Italians, we've surely had our chance to be spoiled when it comes to food. Lucky and cursed at the same time, since our standards are so high!   This is particularly true as the holidays approach. We often find ourselves fighting at the stove to recreate that particular dish, hunting for a rare ingredient, digging into mom's...

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Thirty-eight years. That's how long DeNicola's Italian Restaurant has been a part of Portland, and every inch of the place glows with a comfortable, heartwarming authenticity that New Portland can't hope to equal. That same trusty charm carries over in their Pizza Week pie: While the DeNicola family experimented with more exotic concoctions for Piz...

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EVERYTHING ABOUT Fillmore Trattoria is decidedly Old Portland: the menu isn't pretentious; the electric guitars on the wall were hung by the ponytailed chef/owner; and the glass of decent Italian red is just $7. Except this is a San Francisco import.   What a difference a few years makes for this former home to Noisette and then to Le Vieux,...

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