San Gennaro Feast coming to Craig Ranch next week
The 37th annual San Gennaro Feast is coming to Craig Ranch Regional Park next week. The festival runs from May 4 through 8. It features more than 70 restaurant food booths, 60 Helm & Sons Amusements rides, first time in Las Vegas flume ride, 80-foot petting zoo, pony rides and piglets, midway games, arts and crafts booths, and continuous live...
Apericena & Cinema
By Gina Fabbro Summer nights are full of fun things to do, including events with the Italian Club! We recently hosted an Apericena & Film night on the University of Utah campus, where we served small appetizer bites before watching Roberto Benigni's masterpiece "La Vita è Bella" (Life is Beautiful). Here is the menu from the event, in...
NoMad, Eataly Headed to Las Vegas
Giant news coming out of MGM Resorts International. The Monte Carlo goes through a $450 million renovation that brings NoMad, the swanky hotel and restaurant out of New York City, another luxury hotel dubbed Park MGM and Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich's Eataly. NoMad, the contemporary American restaurant from chef Daniel Humm and restaura...
Celebrity Chef Chris Cosentino Announces Portland Restaurant
Famous for winning Top Chef Masters, San Francisco-based and offal-obsessed chef Chris Cosentino announced today on KATU 2's AM Northwest live television show he's opening a restaurant in Portland. Eater has reached out to Cosentino to learn more about the forthcoming Portland establishment, and here's the message from AM Northwest's Twitt...
Fourth Annual NIAF Golf Tournament
Join Jerry Colangelo and friends on Saturday, March 15, 2014, for the Fourth Annual NIAF Golf Tournament at the Wigwam Golf Resort. With a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m., the tournament will include 18 holes of golf, a continental breakfast, and special gifts and giveaways. To register your foursome online, visit www.niaf.org/azgolf. ...
Retail Properties of America : DOPO Restaurant Opening at The Gateway
Retail Properties of America, Inc. (NYSE:RPAI or the "Company") announced today DOPO, LLC is opening a new restaurant concept, DOPO, at The Gateway in Salt Lake City, Utah. DOPO, meaning "NEXT" in Italian, is an upscale, live music-oriented restaurant, featuring Mediterranean and Italian fare with nightly live jazz. DOPO will feature a 1930's supp...
Seattle Ciclisti is looking for a sponsor
While in Italy people are currently following il Giro d'Italia, Seattle Ciclisti, a group of passionate Italian and Italian-American cyclists recently formed, is looking for a sponsor that can finance the purchase of the team sportswear. The company logo would appear on their jersey/shorts on the Seattle to Portland bike ride on July 11 an...
Italian bakery and gelateria to open in Point Ruston
by Sue Kidd Gelato. Cannoli. Pignolata. Bignè. Panettone. Cannoncini. An entire vocabulary of Italian pastries and sweets will be new to South Sound bakery fans when Dolce Si Sicilian Bakery and Cafe opens in Point Ruston. The bakery and gelateria plans a late November opening, if all goes as planned. It will be the only ba...
An Exceptional Fleet of Ferraris to Lead Gooding & Company’s Scottsdale Auctions
by Viju Mathew Ferrari Fans will soon get their fill at the annual Gooding & Company Scottsdale Auctions, held January 29 and 30. Among the automotive artistry available this year are cars from the collection of Tony Shooshani, an esteemed devotee of the Italian marque. Prominent examples from his Prancing Horse pantheon will...
Owners of The Breadfruit open new Italian restaurant in Scottsdale
A new Italian restaurant has opened in Scottsdale. Leoni's Focaccia is serving up Italian-style sandwiches, as well as salads and desserts, like albacore tuna, Pecorino Romano, and arugula sandwiches, according to the Phoenix New Times. The restaurant opened April 1 at 7116 E. Mercer Lane, near Scottsdale Road and Shea Boulevard. Leoni's is u...
Got coffee? La Marzocco International calls Seattle home
If you are a coffee aficionado, you've heard of La Marzocco. A hands-down favorite among baristas, these high-end espresso machines can be found in cafés and restaurants worldwide. The venerable company, founded in Florence in 1927 by Giuseppe and Bruno Bambi, still manufactures its machines in Italy but its headquarters are in Seattle, thanks to t...
After 71 years, a talk with the brother of an Italian prisoner of war buried in Utah
By Mauro Battocchi Roberto Dal Bosco is an italian video artist who you may remember. He went to Utah last January to present his Renaissance painting video animation displayed at the Salt Lake City Leonardo Museum. While there, he was able - with the help of honorary consul Mike Homer and Kelly Nelson of Woosh Production - to film and pr...