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La Grotta is where I fell in love with restaurants. It happened over time, and mainly when its doors were closed. As a girl, my parents became friends with owner and chef Antonio Abizanda, who lived in one of the condos above the restaurant tucked away on Peachtree. Abizanda was as close as I came to having an uncle in Atlanta, and I like to think...

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Atlanta has Italian restaurants of all stripes, but what it has lacked—until now—is a place combining the cheesy romance of an old-school Italian American red-sauce joint with modern culinary techniques and refined presentations. The idea for Gigi’s Italian Kitchen came to Eric Brooks in 2019 while he was visiting North Beach—San Francisco’s bustli...

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In college campuses and towns throughout Georgia and South Carolina, friends gather to enjoy fresh, hand-tossed gourmet pizzas and calzones, pastas, hot wings and appetizers, salads, soups, and hot sandwiches in the appropriately named AMICI, which means “friends” in Italian. Now Amici will open its first Atlanta location at The Mark, a new 28-stor...

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Måneskin have announced that they will be hitting the road this autumn to kick off a massive world tour. The dates serve as the Italian rockers' rescheduled run of their Loud Kids tour, which was previously set to take place earlier this year. The newly renamed Loud Kids Get Louder tour, will kick off on October 31 in Seattle for the North American...

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Amici, which means “friends” in Italian, will open its first Atlanta location on Tuesday, March 15, in The Mark, a new 28-story, 230-unit student housing building, at 955 Spring St., according to a press release Wednesday. “We have always had a goal to open a location in Atlanta, and we want this Amici to be the Flagship of our brand,” Mike Torino,...

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When frozen yogurt spot Yogurtland closed at the West Paces Ferry Shopping Center in Buckhead last year, Antico pizza owner Giovanni Di Palma says he jumped at the chance to snatch up the space to open Pala, an Italian bakery and gelateria serving paninis, pane Romana flatbreads, and desserts. With a plan to open February 14, Pala marks Di Palma’s...

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Coming to Buckhead Village this summer is a new concept from Pietro Gianni and Stephen Peterson, two of the creators behind Storico. Taking its name from the Rimini verbal expression that conveys the experience of “living with intensity and passion for one’s everyday life,” Yeppa & Co will celebrate the joy of living while featuring fare from the E...

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The Midtown Promenade development is getting a new restaurant from Chef Pat Pascarella. Called Alici, which translates to anchovies in Italian, the concept will be an oyster and seafood bar. Pascarella is also the co-founder of The Porchetta Group, a hospitality company that is behind popular Italian restaurants The White Bull and Grana, as well as...

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A 98-year-old World War II veteran who took part in the D-Day invasion and the Battle of the Bulge and witnessed the German surrender during the war has been honored by France. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Louis Graziano was given the French Legion of Honor during a ceremony on Friday in Thomson, Georgia, where he lives. The honor...

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Italian restaurant and market Tre Vele, from Mission and Market chef Ian Winslade and brothers Ryan and Jonathan Akly, opens Monday, September 20, in Sandy Springs. Tre Vele takes over the former Three Sheets restaurant and lounge space, which the Akly family opened in 2010 at the City Walk complex. Winslade opened Mission and Market with the Aklys...

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