Ukiah’s Marino’s Pizza & Ravioli To Be Featured On America’s Best Restaurants
Local restaurant Marino’s Pizza & Ravioli will be hosting a visit from America’s Best Restaurants (ABR) in mid-March 2024. America’s Best Restaurants, a national media and marketing company focusing on bringing attention to local, independently-owned restaurants, will bring its ABR Roadshow to the restaurant on March 15th. Popular dishes will be h...
14 Primo Italian Restaurants in San Francisco
There’s a long and wonderful tradition of Italian food in San Francisco. Immigrants flooded the Bay Area during the Gold Rush, and while many southerners stayed in New York, simmering hearty red sauces, many northerners landed in San Francisco, bringing a taste for fresh fish, green olives, and bright citrus. North Beach is the historic Italian nei...
Farewell to Ale Gambini, the Queen in the kitchen
Ale Gambini was one of those people who convey happiness, enthusiasm, competence, courtesy. They are increasingly rare people, and because of that, increasingly valuable. Unfortunately, Ale left us, absolutely too young, and the community of those who appreciate and know Italy in the United States mourns and remembers her with love and great sorrow...
Busalacchi Restaurant Group Opens Lala In San Diego's Little Italy
A founding family behind San Diego's Little Italy neighborhood, the Busalacchis have opened Lala Italian gastropub next door to sister restaurant Barbusa. A Sicilian immigrant who moved to San Diego as a young boy, Joe Busalacchi took a leap of faith on Little Italy's then-desolate India Street in 1984 when he opened Trattoria Fantastica. Now, 40 y...
A Taste of Italy in Napa: Local Nonprofit's Fundraiser A Culinary Success for Community and Education
Imagine the rich aromas of Italian cuisine filling the air, the sounds of lively conversations, and the warm, vibrant atmosphere of a community coming together for a cause. This was the scene at the Napa Elks Lodge, where the Napa Sons and Daughters of Italy in America hosted their sell-out annual fundraiser, Boot to Fork: Festa Italiana a Napa. A...
This secret Italian family recipe has fed San Francisco for 113 years
One chilly, hazy December morning, a group gathered at the corner of Filbert and Stockton streets in San Francisco as the clock struck 3 a.m. It would be another four hours until Liguria Bakery opened for business, but the crowd didn’t budge. They had fresh focaccia on their minds. Michael Soracco, Liguria Bakery’s third-generation family owner,...
Michael Fiorelli to Launch Fiorelli Pizza in Los Angeles in March
Fiorelli Pizza could have been a big new dining destination, or an intimate place serving creative pies with natural wine. That’s the kind of thing you’d expect from a big-name chef in a big-time market such as Los Angeles, as he rolls out his next project following executive chef stints at high-profile restaurants around Tinseltown. But Fiorelli...
Elvira serves up delicious Italian meals in Ocean Beach
There is no question in my mind that Cesarina is one of the best five restaurants in the Ocean Beach/Point Loma area. I have never had a bad meal there; the service has been excellent; and the only difficulty I have had is in getting a reservation when I wanted one. Several months ago, the Cesarina group announced they were opening a second restaur...
Isola Osteria Sicilian Restaurant Opening In Danville
When Angelo Dalo was looking to open a new Sicilian restaurant, he wanted somewhere you could sit outside. Somewhere like Sicily, where he was born. “In Danville the days are long and hot,” he said. “In Sicily it’s quite hot, and the food is just made to go with that weather, and we love the weather. I’ve always wanted a small space with lots of pa...
Roman Wolves eatery coming to Little Italy: ‘It’s a celebration of what Italians call the Eternal City’
The local restaurateur behind Rusticucina, a popular farm-to-neighborhood Sicilian-inspired eatery in Hillcrest, is now paying homage to the city of Rome in San Diego’s Little Italy. The new establishment — called Roman Wolves — is more than a bar and restaurant, according to its creator, Nino Cusimano. “We’ve created our own take on Rome’s legacy...
A Roman-Styled Italian Restaurant and Bar Is Coming to Little Italy
A new Italian restaurant is putting the finishing touches on its prime corner of Little Italy with the goal of opening next month. Roman Wolves is landing at the junction of Fir and Kettner in the Broadstone building replacing the Heights, a short-tenured modern European restaurant that took over the space from Cafe Gratitude, which shuttered in ea...
Criscito Pizza Brings a Slice of Italian Excellence to San Diego
Criscito Pizza is a hidden gem that brings a taste of Italian culinary excellence to San Diego. This charming pizzeria, with its inviting ambiance and mouthwatering menu, has quickly become a local favorite! From the moment you step through the door, you’re transported to a cozy trattoria in Italy, where the aroma of freshly baked pizza and the war...