Pasta Lovers: Eat your way through Ohio’s new Italian food trail
Pasta lovers don’t need to fly to Italy to get their fix of pasta and garlic bread. Ohio’s Trumbull County Italian Food Tour maps out some of the best places for Italian food in one of the state’s major Italian communities. In the late 1800s, Italian immigrants started to settle in Mahoning Valley in Northern Ohio. Now, Trumbull County is honoring...
New Italian restaurant opens in West Bend
New restaurant Culaccino Bar + Italian Kitchen opened Tuesday in downtown West Bend. It occupies a historic 112-year-old farmhouse building, located at 110 Wisconsin St., that previously housed Irish pub Dublin’s, and before that, longtime bar and eatery The Binkery. Culaccino serves house-made pasta and wood-fired pizza, as well as a variety of It...
Leo Spizzirri, Norridge native, is master instructor at Italian culinary school
Leo Spizzirri loves cooking pizza, and he loves teaching. The Norridge native, who earned the title “Master Istruttore” (instructor) at an Italian culinary school, has combined those two loves by co-founding the North American Pizza & Culinary Academy at 1970 University Lane in Lisle. Q: What’s your favorite kind of pizza? A: As one of less than a...
A taste of Tuscany
Simone Lucarini treasures many a memory from his childhood cooking with his family in his Tuscan hometown of Cortona. He remembers joking and playing with his mother, making a mess of ingredients as they prepared dinner in a bona fide Italian kitchen. It’s those flavors of authenticity that Simone said he and his wife, Elizabeth, intend to bring to...
Al’s Italian Beef Celebrating 80th Anniversary With 80 Cent Sandwiches
A longtime Chicago eatery is being celebrated by the city and its fans for being a “cherished institution” known for its dipped (and dry) beef sandwiches. Al’s Italian Beef opened as a small neighborhood beef stand in the city’s Little Italy neighborhood in 1938 and the sandwich itself was said to be the idea of Al Ferrari and Chris Pacelli, Sr. Th...
Liberati Announces Opening Date Later This Month
Liberati Osteria and Oenobeers has announced October 29th as its opening date, a goal that has been more than two years in the making. The brewery and restaurant, taking over a former a printing press transformed into a 12,000 square foot dining room space, has been gutted and resdesigned, with much of the work being done by owner Alex Liberati and...
Trouble & Sons Pizzeria to open this week in Whitefish Bay
Trouble & Sons Pizzeria, Whitefish Bay's newest pizza hotspot, is scheduled to open its doors to the public on Tuesday, Oct. 16. Located at 133 E. Silver Spring Dr. in the former home of Roman Candle Pizzeria, Trouble & Sons is the second restaurant from hospitality entrepreneurs Anne Marie Arroyo and Tamela Greene, who also own MOXIE Food + Drink....
Experience the Italian Alps at BAITA
Get ready to cozy up Chicago – BAITA is coming! Inspired by the Italian Alps, BAITA (pronounced bye-tah) is an all-new restaurant opening on our second floor Friday, October 19. Meaning "ski lodge" in Piemontese dialect, BAITA is our answer to fighting the winter blues. As the temperatures drop, escape the chilly sidewalks of Chicago and let yourse...
Authentic Italian restaurant coming to Oconomowoc
Oconomowoc will soon be home to a new authentic Italian restaurant on the first floor of the Eagles Landing condominium building at 128 W. Wisconsin Ave. Lago Su Bella owner Mike Bertrand said the restaurant will be authentically Italian and not the typical spaghetti and meatballs- and lasagna-type restaurant. “We’re going to have real deal Italian...
Restaurant Scene: Authentic Italian recipes star at Pucci's
Diners looking for a delicious authentic Italian meal won't go wrong visiting Pucci's Restaurant and Pizzeria. The restaurant, which has served food fans for more than three decades, is located at the corner of Indianapolis Boulevard and Ewing Avenue on Chicago's Southeast Side, only a stone's throw from the Indiana border. Dishes served at the...
Traditional Pizza on the Rise
For a long time, Milwaukee-style pizza meant one thing: cracker crust, a lightly sweetened sauce, plenty of toppings and cut into squares. Though the moniker of “Milwaukee-style” often draws consternation from pizza purists who correctly argue that this style exists in other places, there’s no doubt that we gravitate to that favorite style and have...
4 new spots to score Italian eats in Chicago
Interested in trying some new Italian restaurants in Chicago? You're in luck: we've found the freshest businesses to fill the bill. Here are the newest places to check out the next time you're in the mood for Italian food. Pasta Passion (4647 N. Lincoln Ave., Lincoln Square) Pasta Passion features an open kitchen where it makes fresh pastas and o...