Italopa aligns with Consul General of Italy Los Angeles, Italian Trade Agency and U.S. Industry Leaders to promote 'Pure Flour from Europe' program
The Italian Milling Industry Association (ITALMOPA) hosted nearly 50 Italian dignitaries and U.S. food industry leaders at a March 7, 2023, dinner to celebrate its Pure Flour from Europe program. Co-funded by the European Union, ITALMOPA's program promotes the superior quality, safety and versatility of Italian and European organic flour and semoli...
Stefono's Sapori D' Italia brings sandwiches, hot dogs, pizzas, and more straight from Chicago to Nipomo
Hungry for Chicago-style food? Head to Nipomo. Yellow flags on Tefft Street let passersby know that authentic Vienna beef sausages are nearby. They lead to Stefono’s Sapori D’ Italia—home of the only real-deal Chicago dog in San Luis Obispo County, according to founder Dante Stefono. “It’s not something you can just go to the store and buy,” he sai...
Celebrate Icons of Eataly Silicon Valley!
This year at La Pizza & La Pasta, we’re going ICONIC. Every month at La Pizza & La Pasta, we’re bringing Italy’s most famous dishes to center stage with an unmissable dining experience centered around your favorite Italian meal – get ready to experience the Icons of Eataly. The Icons of Eataly is a curated selection of Italy's most famous dishes an...
‘Via San Giuseppe!’ — San Pedro’s St. Joseph’s Day procession marks 50 years
An old-world tradition that has taken over the streets around Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church for a half a century returned to San Pedro once more this weekend — and celebrated its golden jubilee. Shouts of “Viva San Giuseppe!” rang out again, as they always do, when parishioners and others joined to celebrate St. Joseph’s Day, honoring the ch...
Grand Opening of Littlest Little Italy
March 12th was the Grand Opening of the Littlest Little Italy. Come by Wed thru Sunday to enjoy Bibo’s Pizza, Chicago Italian style sandwiches, artisan beer and wines, an Italian deli, Salumi samplers, extensive wine retail shop, Gelato and so much more. This 5,000 square foot historic building has Bibo's Little Italy Pizza, and Birre by Pour Dec...
Superfine Playa Is A California-Italian Restaurant With Brightness To Spare
Los Angeles chef Steve Samson is a pasta maestro who’s known for his resolutely Italian food at Rossoblu, where he specializes in regional dishes like tortellini en brodo and tagliatelle Bolognese with “not too much tomato sauce.” The food there is about Samson’s taste memories, about having a mom who’s from Bologna and about the childhood summers...
Tutto Fresco Serves Italian Food In Orange County, California
Tutto Fresco is a fine Italian restaurant located at 22332 El Paseo in Rancho Santa Margarita (Orange County), California. Their website states that they provide "Fresh Italian dining in a relaxed and casual atmosphere." They have authentic Italian cuisine for visitors to enjoy. This family restaurant was started in 1991. They have been creating qu...
Revisiting La Vecchia Cucina, a Longtime Santa Monica Favorite
Doesn’t everyone love a neighborhood restaurant, even if it’s not exactly in your hood? La Vecchia Cucina on Main Street in Santa Monica sits among the newly opened restaurants getting plenty of attention. Good for those new kids on the block, but give me this neighborhood Italian any day. Opened by brothers Mark and Anthony Mollica 15 years ago, L...
Northern California’s Very First Italian Restaurant Has Literally Been Around Forever
Would it surprise you to know the oldest Italian restaurant in California is located in San Francisco? Fior d’Italia opened in 1886. The restaurant’s name means, “flower of Italy”. Over the decades, the restaurant has changed ownership and even briefly closed for about 6 months in 2012. Despite the brief changes and closing, customers keep coming b...
Lidia Bastianich to receive the Andrew Zimmern Discovery Awards at the TASTE AWARDS
The TASTE AWARDS are pleased to announce this year’s recipient of the Andrew Zimmern Discovery Award. THE ANDREW ZIMMERN DISCOVERY AWARD honors the mission to discover new cultures, new flavors, or new talent. The inaugural winners of this new award were Andrew Zimmern and Tyler Florence. This year’s winner, based on years of contributions to culin...
San Diego's Decades-Old Nicolosi's Italian Reopening This Week In New Location
San Diego's nearly 70 year-old red sauce Italian restaurant Nicolosi's has relocated for the fourth time in its long history and will reopen this week in East County. Sicily-native Salvatore Nicolosi opened the original Nicolosi's as a bakery in 1952 in the Mission Hills neighborhood before moving it to 40th and El Cajon Boulevard in 1954. In 1991,...
Il Casaro Pizzeria fires up a larger menu at the Marina’s new Casaro Osteria
North Beach’s Il Casaro Pizzeria on Columbus Avenue has been among San Francisco’s go-to favorites for Napolitan-style since opening in 2014. It’s popularity led to a second Il Casaro in the Castro three years later, with the same team also opening the North Beach Roman-style pizzeria Barbaro Pinsera in 2018, and California Fish Market a few blocks...