Umberto’s brings Italian food and fun to Culver City
Italian food has been a long appreciated culinary art long before anyone living today was around, yet new takes on the long-held traditional cuisine are popping up with great frequency. It is the uniqueness that a restaurant can bring to the Italian cuisine experience that keeps a business open, and that’s just what Umberto’s plans to do in Culver...
Great Italian Chefs in Los Angeles: Barbara Pollastrini | World Week of Italian Cuisine
Special cooking demo with Chef Barbara Pollastrini, of Heroic Wine Bar & Heroic Deli in Santa Monica, and Ambassador of Italian Taste in the World. Special spotlight on prosecco DOCG wine from the hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene that have just officially become Italy’s 55th UNESCO World Heritage Site. Organized in collaboration with Lingua Vi...
Embrace your inner paisan with these red-sauce nights around town
L.A. has its fair share of regional Italian restaurants that craft artful plates of pasta and delicacies year-round. But when it comes to Italian-American restaurants—the kind of place where the meatball’s the size of your fist and that oregano-heavy tomato sauce has been simmering all day—these days, we’re in shorter supply. Thankfully, red sauce...
Taste of Wine: Italian eateries may be hard to pronounce, but they stick around
With Italian restaurants, you learn as you eat, starting with the name, which could be a family name, a place, a restaurant item or a menu description. Let’s review some family names such as: Maestoso or Cesarina, places like Firenze or Positano and a menu or equipment item like Dolce Pano Vino or Il Fornaio. Then there is the menu selection which...
Wine Tasting in a Castle, the Perfect Napa Experience
California’s Napa Valley is world-renowned for hillside winery estates, luxurious boutique hotels, classy bistros and vast expanses of orderly grapevines. The fertile California soil has long supplied the world with celebrated red wine, so it's by no surprise that you can experience some incredible wine-tastings in the region. Beyond the typical, t...
Tuscano’s Pizza & Pasta raises its Italian food game in Yucaipa
When I visited Tuscano’s Pizza & Pasta in Yucaipa shortly after the Italian eatery opened, I must confess that I was underwhelmed. Everything was drowning in cheese, the pizza dough was limp and lacking crispness and the pasta was cooked well past al dente. What a difference a year makes! They have really gotten their act together and the overall i...
Quick-Service Pasta Joins Little Italy Food Hall Lineup
Filling a recently-vacated space in the Little Italy Food Hall at the Piazza della Famiglia is Semola, a new quick-service pasta counter from the team behind Ambrogio15, which operates a pizzeria in the same collective of eateries on India Street, which also includes Mein St. Asian Kitchen, Not Not Tacos by Sam the Cooking Guy, Wicked Maine Lobster...
After 90 Years, Eastside Deli Still Serves Massive Meaty Sandwiches And A Side Of Italian American History
It's easy to miss Eastside Market Italian Deli, a big beige block of a building you've probably driven past a thousand times while navigating Dodger Stadium. Even with a giant sign on the corner of Alpine Street and Figueroa Terrace, it somehow blends into the streets of Victor Heights. Bordered by Elysian Park, Echo Park, Chinatown and Angelino He...
Taste of Italy Festival Celebrates Los Angeles’ Italian History—and Cuisine
Did you know that Italians first settled in Los Angeles in the 1820s? Or that California’s wine industry was started in L.A. by Italian-Americans, and that the city is still home to the oldest winery in the state? Were you aware that Los Angeles has the fifth largest Italian-American population in the U.S.? Los Angeles has a long and storied Italia...
San Diego’s tasty Italian invasion marches on with three new spots
This has been a banner year — a green, white and red banner, to be exact — for Italian food in San Diego. Seemingly every month has been marked by the opening of another impressive Italian eatery. The mini boom started earlier in the year with Cesarina in Point Loma, Ciccia Osteria in Barrio Logan, Il Dandy in Bankers Hill, and later Il Dandy’s sin...
3 Best Italian Restaurants in Santa Clarita
Santa Clarita abounds in enticing Italian restaurants. Here are three of your best options for a feast just like mama used to make. Being an international melting pot, Santa Clarita is well known for its range of great restaurants. And since Italian fare is at the top of the list of most food enthusiasts, the city offers plenty of options for aperi...
Here are Sacramento's top 5 Italian spots...
Looking for a yummy Italian meal near you? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top Italian spots around Sacramento, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of the best spots to fulfill your urges. 1. Sampino's Kitchen At Joe Marty's Topping the list is Sampino's Kitchen at Joe Marty's. Located at 1500 Broadway i...