Cugini Imports & Deli brings a piece of Italy to the outskirts of Walla Walla
On a cold December afternoon in her closed shop, Michelle Martuscelli sits in front of a steel bowl and a small mountain of dark green basil, plucking the tender leaves from the tough stems for use in homemade pesto for the lunch rush of coming days. Much of the menu at Cugini Italian Imports & Deli are brightened with a dollop of that pesto, whet...
Zoppé Italian Family Circus Swings Into Rawhide Western Town
Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 5:00 PM. Rawhide Western Town & Event Center, 5700 W North Loop Rd, Chandler, AZ, 85226. Zoppé Italian Family Circus, with its multi-generational cast of characters, will be creating a blend of holiday magic previously not experienced in the Valley. As if stepping into the past, the 179-year-old Zoppé truly is an ‘old-world eve...
‘Cake Boss’ Buddy Valastro Expands on the Las Vegas Strip With Sandwiches, Mozzarella Bar
Add Cake Boss Buddy Valastro to the list of celebrities opening a new restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip in 2022. The star of the TLC series Cake Boss gets ready to open the Boss Café by Buddy Valastro at the Linq in early 2022. Valastro, who already has Buddy V’s Ristorante and Carlo’s Bakery at the Venetian and PizzaCake at Harrah’s, goes casual w...
Family sustains Big John’s PFI, bringing tastes of Italy to Seattle for 50 years
At Big John’s PFI, the windows are almost floor-to-ceiling. The floors are shiny, smooth concrete, and the 30-foot cheese counter gleams. It’s an upgrade from the bumpy, wine-stained floors and warehouse feel of the gourmet grocery store’s former location in Sodo, and a far cry from the trunk of the green Plymouth Valiant “Big” John Croce sold oliv...
The Taste of Home: Welcoming Osteria La Briccola to Ashland
On the second floor of a creek-front building in Ashland’s Downtown Plaza lies Osteria La Briccola, a warm and welcoming authentic Italian restaurant that opened in early June 2021. The moment I walked into the modest but intimate space, I was greeted by the smells of fresh focaccia bread baking in the kitchen below, an aroma I had yet to have been...
Welcome a Buon Natale at Casa Italiana Italian Cultural Center this Saturday, Dec. 4
All are welcome to a Festa Natale at Casa Italiana Italian Cultural Center in Burien, starting at 10 a.m. this Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021. Enjoy an Italian Bake Sale, festive chestnut roasting, Italian imports shopping, toe tapping music by the Rigatones, and top it off with a grand Christmas tree lighting. Come discover the warm and inviting Casa Caff...
East Idaho Eats: Cafe Tuscano on the verge of doubling access to its classic Italian
What began as a Blimpie sandwich shop in the back of a Chevron gas station is now the home of delicious Italian cuisine, soon to be doubling in size. Cafe Tuscano comes from humble beginnings, serving its first fine Italian meals out of what had been a sandwich shop kitchen nearly 10 years ago. Now, several expansions later, the gas pumps and canop...
Italian singer Giada Valenti spices things up with Christmas show
If the Vegas entertainment scene is a sauce, Giada Valenti is the seasoning. Spicy in her performances and her lively disposition, the Italian songstress has stirred things up in Las Vegas with her multilingual recordings, appearances at The Smith Center, and her Facebook Live cooking-and-singing series. She just dropped a new holiday song, “Silent...
Dolce & Chianti to Debut Brand New Brunch Menu at Fabulous Launch Party Featuring Complimentary Bubbles and Bottomless Mimosas
Dolce & Chianti Cucina and Cocktails, located at 4275 South Durango Drive, is introducing a new brunch menu with an Italian twist. The brunch menu will debut at a launch event on Saturday, December 4 from 11 am to 3 pm. Every guest that attends this event will be greeted with a complimentary glass of bubbles from the champagne wall, along with bott...
Cinema Italian Style is Back on Style!
After canceling the 2020 season because of the pandemic, SIFF Cinema Italian Style returned to Seattle for a week in early November, showcasing 13 films to celebrate the festival’s 13th season. “Seattle loves this festival,” declared SIFF’s Artistic Director Beth Barrett. “And it’s no wonder: these films are passionate, heartbreaking, funny, inspir...
Credo Pizzeria tops Trip Advisor "Highest-rated restaurants in Seattle" for fourth year
For the fourth year running Credo Pizzeria in the West Seattle Junction has topped Trip Advisor's list of "Highest-rated restaurants in Seattle" according to the website STACKER. Credo has been the focus of attention nationally before. In March of this year it was named as the best pizza in Washington State on MSN. In 2018 Credo and chef Jacques Na...
Pasquale Esposito sings Enrico Caruso
When: Friday, December 03, 2021 At 6:00 pm - Organized by : Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles with the Diplomatic Corps of Arizona - Entrance : With fee Italian tenor Pasquale Esposito will perform live at the 31st Annual Ambassadors' Ball in honor of Italy, benefiting the Diplomatic Corps of Arizona Scholarship Fund and the Students at Thu...