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North End restaurant owners aren't giving up their fight against Mayor Michelle Wu over the city’s outdoor dining restrictions. This time, they’re using her recent trip to Italy to highlight the issue. “While the mayor has been visiting cities in Italy, dining outdoors and enjoying the beautiful weather, our coworkers here continue to lose income d...

A year after opening its doors in May of last year, The Taste of Italy in Johnston has not faltered in delivering its consistently delicious and authentic Italian cuisine to an ever-growing list of loyal fans. From the moment a curious diner walks into this inviting space, the answer to the age-old question “What’s for dinner?” is immediately answe...

A Street Hospitality, a Boston-based restaurant group focused on  creating unparalleled experiences for guests centered around hospitality, announced that its latest culinary creation, La Padrona, will bring authentic Italian dining to The Raffles Hotel  beginning May 15, 2024. La Padrona is an 8,600 square foot multisensory experience with an idea...

Husband and wife team Marco and Kathy Baldieri opened the new restaurant Mamma Italia in Sturbridge last summer, successfully combining the passions and experiences of Marco Baldieri, an executive chef who for more than 40 years has stayed true to traditional Italian (home-style) cooking. Mamma Italia Ristorante, 139 Main St. #2, occupies plaza spa...

North End restaurateurs protested the city’s outdoor dining rules, this time with multiple banners that hung across Hanover Street and a planned rally Wednesday the same week other neighborhoods in Boston would begin to be allowed to set up street dining for the season.  One banner seen Monday read “If you want a reservation for outdoor dining in t...

You might say Bostonians have tunnel vision when it comes to their dessert choices. While the city may have catapulted Boston Cream Pie into fame and it certainly runs on donuts (Dunkin’ or otherwise), the best cannoli in Boston remain a local delicacy. These filled pastry masterpieces of Italian origin are beloved by many, and actually are the top...

Fine Italian and upscale pizza are all the rage, and often in the same nook (Source and Gufo, to name two). But you can find old-school Italian comfort this side of the river too, in the long-established Gran Gusto and Trattoria Pulcinella. We’ve extolled the virtues of Gran Gusto (big fan of the O’Re truffle pizza), so we now shine the light on Pu...

The owners of Caffè Nero at Legacy Place in Dedham are hoping to bring a piece of Italy to Massachusetts. They're not just serving up coffee - they're offering customers wine as well. The original idea for Boston-based box wine Alileo was to honor someone special in the owners' lives. "We did it in honor of Antonio's mama, who we lost three years a...

A new Fall River restaurant caught the attention of city-goers after the owner paired their Grand Opening announcement with a friendly reminder to “be kind.” After battling breast cancer while simultaneously running a bartending school, Shannon Raposo feels grateful to see her dream of owning a restaurant come to life. The restaurant is still comin...

The Providence Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau proudly presents the third annual Providence Pizza Week, taking place from April 14-20, 2024. The week of pizzas showcases the most scrumptious and creative pizza pies that pizza joints, restaurants, and even food trucks from across the state can dream up.  The celebration of one of the most pop...

Luca’s Pizzeria and Italian Kitchen will open in Greenwich on Friday, April 12, in the Glenville Shopping Center. Luca’s is named after owner Joe Criscuolo’s father, who founded Pizza Post in Greenwich in 1972. Criscuolo was brought up spinning pizza dough and making fine Italian food at pizzerias in Fairfield County. He has helped run Pizza Post a...

Angelo’s is celebrating its 100th anniversary this weekend with a series of events happening today through Sunday, including continuous birthday cake, grape stomping, pasta-making, live music and more. Classic comfort food Italian dishes done well is what Angelo’s is all about. The portions have always been large, the prices are cheap and the focus...