Monini's olive oils win five Oscars in Los Angeles
Monini’s mono cultivars Frantoio, Coratina, and Nocellara 100% Italian organic olive oils have won no fewer than five Oscars – including four gold ones, a Best of Show, and a Best of Class – at the Los Angeles International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition, one of the five most important international competitions in the extra virgin olive oil se...
A New Restaurant at the Four Seasons Embarcadero Hopes to Strike Cal-Italian Gold
The team at Four Seasons Embarcadero just renovated the 155-room hotel and built out a new California-Italian restaurant Orafo, set to open on February 27. Orafo chef Gunnar Planter cut his teeth working with James Beard Award-winning chef Martin Woesle at Mille Fleurs as well as at numerous other SoCal restaurants through his 16-year-long career....
Starbucks' new drinks have a spoonful of olive oil in every cup
Starbucks wants you to give olive oil coffee a shot. Really. The coffee chain is rolling out a new line of beverages made with extra virgin olive oil. To be clear, the drinks are not simply flavored with olive oil, nor do they have just a hint of it. Each one is truly made with a spoonful of oil, adding 120 calories to the total. With some drinks,...
Popular Italian Restaurant Opens a Third Spot in a Cozy Corner of Pacific Palisades
Cinque Terre West’s owners continue their expansion into a cozy nook of Pacific Palisades inside the Gardens at Palisades strip mall. Marlo Vinzoni and chef Gianbattista “Gianba” Vinzoni first opened Cinque Terre West there in 2019, then opened wine bar Enoteca 5 in 2021. Finally, on January 31 of this year, they debuted Deliziozo Cinque. That mark...
Chris Bianco to open famous Pane Bianco at Row DTLA
Restaurateur and famed pizzaiolo Chris Bianco doesn’t believe in the perfect pizza. “I think that’s the problem right now with a lot of things that are self-proclaimed ‘the best’ or ‘the perfect’ whatever,” said Bianco. It’s more personal for him, “rarely does one size fit all in that way…. It’s important that we identify things we like, whether (t...
Italy’s World-Famous All’Antico Vinaio Sandwich Shop Is Coming To L.A.
You may have seen a TikTok video floating around with hundreds of Angelenos lined down the block for a sandwich—but it wasn’t just any ordinary sandwich. The viral pop-up belonged to Italy’s most famous sandwich shop known as All’Antico Vinaio. The worldwide sought-out restaurant was born in Florence and started by the Mazzanati family in 1991. Aft...
San Francisco Bay Area embraces Italian food
The San Francisco Bay Area is a mecca for foodies and wine lovers with upscale grocery stores in every neighborhood. Retailers such as Whole Foods, Mollie Stone’s, Draeger’s and Lunardi’s have multiple locations in the densely populated thirty-five-mile peninsula located South of San Francisco. With warm lighting and neutral colors, Whole Foods in...
Magazine Behind "Michelin Star Of Italy" Awards San Diego's Cori Pastificio Top Honors For Italian Restaurant
Italy’s top food & wine publishing group Gambero Rosso has awarded San Diego's Cori Pastificio with its highest honors, which only five Italian restaurants in the entire country received. Similar to France’s Michelin Star Awards, Italy’s Gambero Rosso acknowledges top Italian restaurants around the world on an annual basis. Judges travel to nearly...
Wine enthusiast: in San Francisco, Abruzzo honored as wine region of the year
The United States crowns Abruzzo and its wines: at the Wine Star Awards ceremony, which just concluded, in the splendid setting of the majestic Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, Abruzzo received the award given by the prestigious international magazine Wine Enthusiast to the most interesting wine realities in the sector."It is an extremely pres...
This is the ‘trendy’ Italian meat with 1,000 years of staying power
Rounds of sliced-thin, pink, white-speckled mortadella are popping up on sandwiches, on charcuterie plates and even in the occasional cocktail in Los Angeles, but it’s hard to view any food item depicted in ancient Roman carvings as a flash in the pan. The Italian deli meat that traces its roots to Bologna and as far back as the Etruscans isn’t new...
Peggy Ann Albano, who helped launch Mary’s Pizza Shack, dies at 85
Sonoma Valley resident Peggy Ann Albano was seemingly everywhere at once — willingly jumping in to help with bookkeeping, serve customers, cook or do whatever else was needed to help the family business get off the ground. Her many contributions helped to establish Mary’s Pizza Shack as a beloved family restaurant at its initial location in Boyes H...
Chef Matthew Accarrino Is Debuting an Italian Eatery in Pacific Heights
According to a recent liquor license application, Chef Matthew Accarrino is opening a new restaurant at 2232 Bush Street. The space was previously home to Out the Door, a “lower-key Slanted Door offshoot serving inventive modern Vietnamese fare,” and is right around the corner from Accarino’s existing eatery, SPQR. The upcoming Pacific Heights rest...