Truffle Days at Eataly
Get ready to unearth one of Italy's most prized ingredients — fresh white truffles are in season! From November 22-23, join us for Truffle Days and find prized tubers at the lowest price of the season! Famously foraged in Italy’s Piemonte region where Eataly was founded, white truffles remind us to slow down and celebrate gifts from nature. Because...
Cucina Migrante team celebrates homegrown food and ‘dinners with strangers’
When Cucina Migrante co-founders Francesco Bonsinetto and Adisa Ziric prepare a meal for a client, they never work from a standard menu. Every meal is unique from the next, depending on the customer’s tastes, dietary concerns and allergies, and whatever fresh items Bonsinetto picks up that day from a local farm or meat market. The San Diego busines...
The Best Italian Restaurants in Sarasota
Sarasota’s love affair with Italy goes back to the city’s earliest days. There’s the Ca’ d’Zan, John Ringling’s immense Venetian-style mansion on Sarasota Bay, plus, of course, the man’s immense Renaissance art collection, which includes the famous replica of Michelangelo’s David—so recognizable that the City of Sarasota made it its logo. But that’...
San Francisco Italian restaurant institution Original Joe’s will expand to the East Bay
An Italian restaurant institution in San Francisco is about to expand to the East Bay for the first time in the business's storied history. Original Joe’s will open a location in Walnut Creek, inside the space in the Broadway Plaza center formerly occupied by Stanford’s Restaurant at 1300 South Main Street. When it comes to the new venue, it was ap...
The Complete History Of E. & J. Gallo Winery
The history behind the family-owned E. & J. Gallo Winery can be likened to the depth and complexity of some of its many products. There was a tell-all book exposing family secrets, a court scandal over cheese, and a real-life family tragedy involving a murder-suicide. The company's battles with the United Farm Workers was on and off for years until...
‘The Bear’ Impact: Can Italian Beef Thrive In Los Angeles?
Most days, Michael Walker couldn’t transfer his Italian beef sandwiches with a lot ease — he’d promote perhaps 10 all day at his Los Angeles pop-up, Comfortable Pup. Then, on June 26, he offered out of the meat inside two hours of organising his meals stall. Such is the ability of “The Bear,” the FX sequence that had premiered days earlier and rapi...
All You Can Eat Italian Food and Drink for Eataly’s 5th Birthday Celebration Next Week
Eataly Los Angeles is hosting a five-year anniversary, all-you-can-eat celebration next week with tasting stations featuring Eataly’s most beloved dishes and Italian wines to taste throughout the marketplace. The event is set to take place on November 3 from 6-10 p.m. at Eatay Los Angeles in Century City. “It seems like just yesterday that we ope...
LA’s Coastal Italian Reign Continues as a New Contender Washes Ashore in the Arts District
A half-block away from the bustling Cha Cha Cha in the busy Arts District, Hearts & Flame opened this week in the former Inko Nito space at 225 S. Garey Street. Though the interior is reminiscent of the former Japanese robata bar, the menu is fully coastal Italian. Hearts & Flame joins the assembly of coastal Italian restaurants popping up around L...
Cucina Caprese Replacing Devine Pastabilities In San Diego's Midway District
Replacing Devine Pastabilities in the Midway District of San Diego's Point Loma is Cucina Caprese, a catering company-turned restaurant that offers a menu centered around wood-fired Italian cuisine. Owned by Derya Ozbey with a menu executed by Italian-born chef Giuseppe Monaco, Cucina Caprese has been a fixture at local farmers markets and area pop...
This Divisadero Italian Restaurant Is Offering a Steeply Discounted Weeknight Menu
The Bay Area is infamous for its pricey lifestyles and inaccessibly expensive luxuries — and increasingly, that includes wild and wacky restaurants, too. Now, Divisadero Street restaurant Che Fico’s smaller neighboring outpost Che Fico Alimentari is hoping to offer something slightly more affordable. Owner and chef David Nayfeld took to Instagram t...
Proud legacy of Italian winegrowers in Sonoma County
With a staggering 60% slant, Jackass Hill is the steepest non-terraced vineyard in Sonoma County and the most harrowing to harvest. Yet every year, Lee Martinelli teeters on his tractor trying to defy gravity on this daunting slope. Before him, his father, Leno Martinelli, farmed it for 75 years, up until he was 87. And the original daredevil, Gius...
Tocca Ferro Brings Italian Sophistication to Anaheim
Tocca Ferro, an elegant new Italian chophouse, is just a short walk from Disneyland and California Adventure. Located at the JW Marriott Anaheim Resort, which opened in 2020, Tocca Ferro made its debut in July. Though the resort is family-friendly, it's also luxurious, with adult-oriented escapes like Tocca Ferro and Parkestry, the 11th floor rooft...