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January 21, 2015 - Wednesday 7:00 PM - 9:30 PMThe Ebell of Los Angeles - 743 S. Lucerne Boulevard - Los Angeles, California 90005: Old World vs New World: Italian Style Comparing traditional Italian wines to their newfangled California cousins. Our California climate is very similar to that of Italy so the early Italian immigr...

Saturday 5, Saturday - End of Summer Pasta Night at Newport Italian - We would like to celebrate the End of Summerwith our famous Pasta Night Event, alongside our fellow Italian motorcycle and scooter lovers!It will be a lively party with Italian music, our famous bruschetta, amazing focaccia made by Magnone Trattoria, pasta al pomodoro (spaghetti...

By Leanne Battelle   For the restaurant seeker, there are places that are on the radar and those that aren't. Personal limitations to discovery can be formed based on distance, cuisine, price and/or reputation. One for me that was figuratively hidden from view is Il Davide in San Rafael.   I'm not sure why I'd never been, since it's c...

Accolade Wines North America has just introduced Da Luca, a stylish range of super-premium Italian wines, to the U.S. Three distinct single varietal offerings from Da Luca include Pinot Grigio, Sangiovese and Prosecco and can be found in U.S. markets this spring.   According to Accolade Wines North America Vice President of Marketing Reid St...

By Jonathan Gold If you dine regularly in Los Angeles' Italian restaurants, you have probably lived through the fresh-pasta wars, the head cheese skirmishes and the incursion of the massive T-bones. We have not yet quite climbed out of the charred rubble of the wood-fired pizza moment, where the mozzarella comes from buffaloes and the thermostat i...

by Ellen Fort   Ghirardelli Square is heating up, with an influx of new tenants designed to restore it to the vibrant destination it once was. Not only will it be the destination of a full-service restaurant from local favorite Le Marais, but it will be the location of Berkeley-native Jonathan Waxman's first foray into the San Francisco dini...

A new, independently owned lunch spot, Wise Guy Deli, is slated to open within the next couple of months at 214 California St. (at Front), bringing old-school, hearty Italian sandwiches to the FiDi lunch crowd.   The awning is already up, beckoning hungry patrons. Owner Michael Tufo said he'd hoped to be open by now, but—as we hear frequentl...

di Riccardo Chioni   Per accogliere le migliaia di visitatori della 38.ma edizione del Winter Fancy Food Show al Moscone Center, ieri San Francisco ha sfoderato una giornata decisamente primaverile che ha favorito una eccezionale affluenza in quella che e' la vetrina internazionale delle specialità alimentari. Il Fancy Food Show dal 195...

Wine.com honored Terlato Wines International at its third annual Wine Industry Summit at San Francisco's historic Westin St. Francis Hotel.   Terlato Wines was named Exemplary Supplier of the Year in recognition of its growth (which is outpacing that of the industry overall), the quality of its portfolio of wines and its commitment to partne...

Tomatina, a casual, chef-inspired Italian restaurant, is celebrating the opening of its seventh Bay Area location on December 16 from 5-7pm at 401 South B Street in San Mateo, California.   Tomatina will be joined by Greg from the popular 99.7 NOW Fernando and Greg Morning Show, who will be playing music on-site and helping to give away fres...

La California e San Francisco amano i vini italiani. È questa in estrema sintesi la conclusione del Tre Bicchieri USA 2015 organizzato da Gambero Rosso, l'evento più atteso dell'anno che porta l'eccellenza della produzione vinicola italiana in tour negli Stati Uniti.   Il tour organizzato dalla celebre istituzione enogastronomica italiana, r...

Family-owned Lupo D'Abruzzo Italian Restaurant will celebrate its golden anniversary soon. Stop by for great Italian food — tell them George sent you!   I wish my Mom and Dad were alive. I would ask them when and why they first tried Lupo D'Abruzzo's Italian restaurant. There likely weren't many restaurants around in 1966 – there were far mo...