Ambrogio15, an award-winning pizzeria plans to open a fine dining location in Phoenix
The team behind San Diego's "best pizza of 2020" is bringing a fine dining Milanese concept to Phoenix. Ambrogio15 was opened by two friends from Milan when Giacomo Pizzigoni and Andrea Burrone decided to "leave the corporate world to begin a new adventure made up of passion, friendship and a bit of foolishness." The duo introduced the West Coast...
LDI To Tour Leonardo: The Universal Man In Las Vegas
One of the special tours at LDI this year is a tech tour of Perception Las Vegas, a new museum for immersive and high-tech digital art installations, opened on June 10, 2022 with the world premiere of Leonardo: The Universal Man. Chronicling the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci, one of history’s greatest thinkers, the hour-long, three-part journ...
Il Toro e la Capra adds Italian cuisine to Lindo Michoacan’s Las Vegas legacy
The latest restaurant offering from the family behind the Lindo Michoacan empire was a massive undertaking that became more challenging over the past two years. But Il Toro E La Capra came to life in January, a unique blend of Italian and Mexican cuisines in the family-friendly format familiar to Las Vegas at Lindo since 1990. Lindo Michoacan owner...
Pa’La Chef Claudio Urciuoli Shares His Italian Roots With Upcoming Gilbert Restaurant
Chef Claudio Urciuoli’s recent trip to visit his family in Italy sounds like something straight out of a travel show, complete with picturesque environs and tantalizing food. He visited a friend who makes extra virgin olive oil in Umbria. And then another who grows farro and other varieties of legumes only found in Italy. Of course, a trip to see a...
Where to Find Dreamy Burrata Around Portland
There was a time where burrata was having its moment — the golden age of @burratagram, where every pasta, pizza, and sandwich came topped with a jiggling ball of cheese. Burrata, a fresh cheese filled with cream and mozzarella, is something like the lava cake of cheeses: When a ball of burrata is split with a knife, a delicious, decadent filling sp...
Remembering Brian Luceri, everyone’s best friend from Boston
Anyone, and I mean everyone, who has ever walked into Hops Sports Grill has met Brian Luceri. You might have seen him making his way through the dining room, bar, or patio of Hops (a bar and grill meets Italian grandma’s kitchen on Tucson’s east side) in an almost statesmanlike fashion; shaking hands, making small talk, addressing the issues of the...
BYU Museum of Art acquires new Italian masterwork
The Brigham Young University Museum of Art has acquired a new painting by Italian artist Luca Giordano via donation. Giordano’s “El Prendimiento de Cristo, The Arrest of Christ,” illustrates a scene from the New Testament where Judas betrays Jesus with a kiss while the two are surrounded by soldiers. The painting went up for auction in Barcelona,...
At Màstra, Italian food is authentic but not snobbish
So, here’s the thing: I spent a year and a half as a missionary living in Southern Italy, and that means I ate a lot of good food. Like, a lot. From street vendors, small shops and restaurants, but mainly in the homes of Italian families, eating homemade Italian meals. You tell yourself when you go to Italy that you won’t come back a pasta snob…but...
Italian favorite Matteo’s Ristorante Italiano brings back its brunch to Las Vegas
For fans of both Italian cuisine and brunch, the perfect storm on the Las Vegas Strip is Matteo’s Ristorante Italiano, which recently brought back its brunch menu. Fans of the Northern Italian-themed restaurant are no doubt familiar with chef Angelo Auriana’s passion for authenticity, quality and deliciousness. His regular menu features a wide vari...
‘Guitarist’s guitarist:’ Peppino D’Agostino comes to Nevada City
The Nevada City Odd Fellows is honored to present one of the premiere acoustic guitar players on the scene today, Peppino D’Agostino on Tuesday, Aug. 9 at the Nevada City Odd Fellows Hall. As young Sicilian artist, D’Agostino left Italy over 30 years ago with the dream of “playing with the greatest guitarists.” D’Agostino has achieved his dream and...
Toscana Ristorante & Bar in Las Vegas celebrates Tuscan cuisine
Perhaps no country’s cuisine puts people into so many different camps as Italy’s. Just tell the person next to you why pizza is the best Italian cuisine, and soon you’ll have started an enormous debate as to which of the various pizzas—spread among the boot-shaped country’s north, south and central areas—you are talking about. And that’s just pizza...
Tony Anderson: Tacoma's Italian Ambassador
Tony Anderson is the type of guy who everyone seems to know. Ask just about any local leader whether they know him, and you’re likely to get an enthusiastic yes. The same holds true among everyday citizens as well, friends and acquaintances he’s met along the way who know him as the big, friendly Italian who always has time to stop and talk, share...