Dinner with Dario Cecchini & rpm steak in Chicago
May 2, 2015 - Saturday 7:00 PM - 10:00 PMRPM Steak - 66 West Kinzie Street - Chicago, Illinois 60664Join RPM Steak and Chef/Partner Doug Psaltis as they host world-renowned, eighth-generation Italian butcher Dario Cecchini for an evening of chef demonstrations, Tuscan wine and fine dining. Bringing along his cooks and own ar...
The Gage & Gemini Bistro Owners Bringing Southern Italian to Southport
At a rare Tuesday morning press conference, Billy Lawless (The Gage, Acanto) and Ryan O'Donnell (Gemini Bistro) unveiled their Lakeview plans that first surfaced in 2015. They're opening a southern Italian restaurant this summer called Coda Di Volpe over at 3335 N. Southport Ave. There's also a third partner, chef Chris Thompson, who they...
Fast-casual Italian concept opens in Woodbury
A fast-casual Italian chain Piada Italian Street Food has opened in Woodbury. It's located in CityPlace, the mixed-use project that replaced the former State Farm Insurance campus. It's close to the Tamarack Village shopping center and will be open seven days a week from 10:45 a.m. to 10 p.m. Columbus, Ohio-based Piada entered the Twi...
Pomodoro restaurant open; insurance exchange still mostly not
Pomodoro Italian restaurant is open in the one-time Black & Tan building at 101 Ft. Howard Ave., De Pere. Restaurant owners Jerry and Mia Clearwater have extensive experience operating Italian restaurants in New York, Maine, Tennessee, North Carolina and Wisconsin. Their last restaurant was in Reedsburg. Jerry Clearwater is Italian an...
Dine at Sergio’s Cucina Italiana in Itasca for authentic Italian cuisine
by Connie Reed One of the first noticeable signs that Sergio's Cucina Italiana in Itasca, Illinois, is authentically Italian is the lack of the strong garlic pungency that smacks you in the face when you walk into so many Italian restaurants. Sergio Abate, owner and self-proclaimed "top problem solver" confirmed that in his restaurant garl...
75-year-old Racine restaurant Totero's closing in June
The last day in business for Totero's, a 75-year-old Italian restaurant in Racine, will be June 26. The Italian-American restaurant, still in the century-old building at 2343 Mead St. where Achille Totero founded it, now is operated by the third generation: his grandchildren Albert Totero and Albert's sister, Angela Totero. Albert Totero...
Moretti’s Restaurant looks to open new location in Morton Grove
By Igor Studenkov The village of Morton Grove Board of Trustees will soon decide whether to give tax incentives to Moretti's Ristorante & Pizzeria, which is looking to open a location at a long-vacant lot a few blocks from village's Metra station. The restaurant would be located on a village-owned lot within the Lehigh/Ferris...
Brothers' business is based in their Italian roots
Growing up in Sicily, Peter Scardina learned the art of Italian sausage. While raising his family in Riverwest, he continued those childhood food traditions. Eventually, he taught his sons his recipes, and his sausage and spiedini have become the base for the family business. Four years ago, Maria and Peter Scardina opened Scardina Special...
Italian-American chef promises authentic cuisine in Tremont
One of Northeast Ohio's top restaurateurs is about to get even busier. A recent trip to Italy has inspired Chef Dante Boccuzzi to open his fifth restaurant, bringing the traditional dishes of Florence, Siena, and Pisa to the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland. In today's Quick Bite WKSU's Vivian Goodman reports on Boccuzzi's tribute to his...
Great Pizza at Mozzaluna
Tucked inside the Old World Wisconsin-like Stonewood Village in Brookfield is a cozy Italian restaurant serving Neapolitan-style pizzas. Still the most common style of pizza in Italy, Neopolitan pies are the godfather of American pizza as we know it today. Everything from national chains to Maria's and Ian's are descendants of Neapolitan pizzas. T...
Nora: The joy of cooking in Cleveland's Little Italy
Ribbons of hand-rolled pasta nestled in a luxurious sauce of good cheese, cream and coddled egg, spiked with salty nuggets of pancetta then tossed with fried potato matchsticks for a charming unexpected crunch and slices of cured egg yolk for even more umami richness. Those with a Proustian food memory or preternatural love for the extra-opulent wi...
New Lettuce Entertain You concept il Porcellino to replace Paris Club Bistro & Bar
by Morgan Olsen Hubbard Street is parting ways with Paris Club Bistro & Bar, which opened in 2011, and making way for il Porcellino, a new Italian concept from shared parent company Lettuce Entertain You. The new spot—from R.J., Jerrod and Molly Melman and chef Doug Psaltis (RPM Steak)—is being billed as a "rustic everyday trattoria."...