Rudd’s love of Jasper’s Chicken Parmigiano all about family tradition
by Kimberly Winter Stern It started innocently enough on Dec. 9 when hometown boy and actor Paul Rudd confessed to people.com his soft spot for Jasper's Restaurant. Rudd was riding the frenzied promotional bandwagon for the "Anchorman" movie sequel about to be released, "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues." In the much-anticip...
D'Arpino's 'spin-off' restaurant coming to Nixa
Steve D'Arpino says he's bringing the family business to Nixa. His parents have run D'Arpino's Italian Cafe in Springfield for more than a decade and Steve D'Arpino said he plans to have his restaurant Piccolo open for business by December. "We're trying to bring some of the great Italian food to Nixa," he said, explaining that the ci...
Gioia’s Deli To Open Downtown, Location Revealed
By George Mahe Alex Donley called dibs on this a while ago. Before Sauce on the Side ever considered moving from its original downtown location at 903 Pine, Alex Donley, owner of Gioia's Deli (and the popular Gioia's "Hot Salami on Wheels" food truck) expressed interest in the site. "Having a bustling deli crowd located right...
Woodfire Pizza and a Killer Carbonara Are Coming to the North Loop
When Chef Todd Macdonald announced he'd be joining Luke Shimp's Red Cow empire after Parella closed suddenly last winter, it was a bit perplexing, to say the least. Now the duo have revealed their master plan to Mpls./St. Paul Magazine's Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, and it's a beauty: An Italian and pizza joint in a former auto body shop in th...
Saint Rocco's New York Italian
by Eve Hill-Agnus You can't miss it. The biggest, flashiest restaurant in Trinity Groves has its name in Broadway marquee lights. Add a windmill and it's Moulin Rouge, my friend says as we approach. When Phil Romano conceived his restaurant incubator with two business partners almost 12 years ago, he saved himself the end sp...
Downtown Williston gets a taste of Italy
As the sun lowers in the sky, the sounds of laughter and conversation are heard inside the Downtown Plaza - the kind of energy that can only be generated from those sharing a hearty meal together. Nestled within the Plaza is a small 12 table restaurant, Cugini Italian Bistro. Candle lit tables and bistro-style decor creates an intimate amb...
A tour of Italian food: classic ingredients and new ideas
We know you love Italian food. And you know it could take a lifetime to explore every region and its specialties, markets, farmers and chefs. But you only have 5 days to do it. What do you do? You head for Salone del Gusto, the largest event dedicated to food-related topic held every two years in Turin, where the absolute best of Italian artisan fo...
Lidia Bastianich hosts Boys Grow benefit dinner
by Jill Wendholt Silva "What's up?" Italian-born chef Lidia Bastianich asks the rooster that lightly pecks at her sandals. "You know, you'd make a good sauce!" At the start of the week she was cooking risotto for Pope Francis and by the end hosting her third annual benefit dinner at the Boys Grow Farm in Grandview. Bastianich...
CMR’s Marcella’s to Open in Denver in Summer 2017
Cameron Mitchell Restaurants, LLC (CMR) is excited to announce that its award-winning Italian restaurant, Marcella's, will open its third location in Denver's Lower Highland community (LoHi). The restaurant is set to open in summer 2017 and will be the company's first location under this concept to open in Colorado. "Expanding our Marcella's conce...
Lechuga's opens canoli kiosk on the 16th street mall today
Lechuga's is one of Denver's last remaining north-side red sauce joints. While many other Italian restaurants and bars — Pagliaci's, Carbone's, Longo's Subway Tavern — have succumbed to old age and an influx of development, Lechuga's was saved, at least in name and menu, when the restaurant was purchased after longtime owners Chuck Lechuga and Rach...
Italian food takes on a modern accent at Plate in Brookside
Plate offers something slightly different to the Brookside neighborhood. The year-old bistro is owned and operated by Christian and Andrea Joseph, who also own the adjacent Season + Square, a spice shop specializing in small-batch foods and culinary goods, and the newly opened wine cellar, Taste. The restaurant brands itself as "Itali...
Leonardo's Kitchen Serves Delicious St. Louis-Style Italian in Generous Quantities
Rich LoRusso grew up on the Hill, just a block away from the tiny Texaco gas station on the corner of Macklind and Bischoff avenues. It's no surprise that he and his wife, Terri, ended up as restaurateurs: They met as teenagers working at the same small Italian restaurant. She was a busgirl; he was a cook. What neither expected, however, i...