Dine Out Maine: Siano’s Pizzeria in Portland deals in gutsy home-style Italian cooking
By John Golden Located in the heart of Deering Center off Stevens Avenue, Siano's Pizzeria has been a mainstay in this community since 2007. But it's more than just a family-friendly neighborhood haunt. Its menu of southern Italian old-school classics is very well done. And on weekends it's chock-a-block with diners there to have a good time over...
Il Molo Is Now Open in Boston’s North End
A new North End seafood spot from some veteran restaurateurs officially opens today with plenty of pasta and fish dishes to go around. Donato Frattaroli and Donato Frattaroli Jr. debut Il Molo and the stylings of chef Pino Maffeo today at 326 Commercial St. in the North End, Boston Magazine reported. Il Molo took over the space formerly oc...
Bistro Romano Cellar Club Holds Annual Wine Tasting Event on March 4th
Bistro Romano, a leading regional Italian restaurant in Philadelphia, is all set for yet another evening of exceptional wines and unique food pairings. On Tuesday, March 4th, 2014, the Wine Cellar Club will meet in the Bistro's Great Room of 120 for its 36th annual tasting event. "Our Cellar Club is a savvy yet fun forum to taste the best grapes f...
Prince is poised to celebrate 100 years of pasta history
It is said that Eskimos have eight words for snow, and the French have a dozen words for love. But in Italy, an uber chef could fill a small dictionary with the many different words for pasta. (Think penne, ziti, and cavatappi just to name a few.) Here in Boston, in the days when pasta was still spaghetti, few brands have been more renowne...
Italian Cultural Center of Western Massachusetts plans Prime Rib Christmas Dinner
The Italian Cultural Center of Western Massachusetts' annual Prime Rib Christmas Dinner will be held on Dec. 12 at 56 Margaret St. in Springfield. The event will open with a cocktail hour at 6 p.m., and dinner will begin at 7 p.m. The full menu includes antipasto, garden salad, baked stuffed shrimp, prime rib, roasted potatoes, ziti, desse...
Cooking Vacations founder Lauren Birmingham Piscitelli
It came as no surprise to Lauren Birmingham Piscitelli that public relations executives were among the most stressed out people in the country. A mover and shaker in the cutthroat world of Boston PR, she felt it in her shoulders and in the pit of her stomach. That stress led her to seek solace in Sorrento, Italy, in 2001. That stress also helped he...
New York Times Review of Cotto's: Thumbs up
The New York Times' Patricia Brooks gave Cotto's Wine Bar and Pizzeria a "Very Good" rating in the newspaper's region section, published Friday online. The Italian restaurant at 51 Bank St. has "had a good bit of success" at creating "the ambience of a Roman trattoria in downtown Stamford," Brooks wrote in her review. Read more &...
Pauli’s North End – Wicked Fresh. Crazy Good.
In the words of owner Paul Barker, Pauli's North End serves "wicked fresh food that always tastes crazy good." Ingredients that are farm fresh and high quality make even the simplest sandwiches stand out, proving Barker right. Barker comes from a long line of legendary Boston food purveyors. Serving the best as a family has been their business for...
Italian Cultural Center to offer limoncello-making class on June 20
by Sarah Platanitis The Italian Cultural Center of Western Mass will offer a limoncello-making class on Saturday, June 20, from noon - 2 p.m. at their location at 56 Margaret Street in Springfield. Learn to make the delicious Italian lemon liqueur from an instructor that will guide the class through a hands-on demonstr...
Stamford bakery grew by adding a dash of family
Ugo DiMare enjoys baking and loves his family, but never dreamed of mixing the two. Running a bakery shop is so much work, DiMare thought. He did not want to burden his daughters. Despite his worries, they blended. "We used to sweat to make a $100," said one daughter, Maria DiMare-McGrath, 59. "My father felt it was a hard life, and he d...
Dining review: Rosalina is a new Italian classic in Providence
By Jenna Pelletier The last thing Rhode Island needed was another Italian-American restaurant, I thought. All angles seemed to be covered, from the classic Federal Hill restaurants to upscale Al Forno to no-frills Mike's Kitchen in Cranston. What more could another one offer? Come to find out, the relatively new Rosalina, in downtown Pro...
A fig tree grows in Maine
Ten years ago, Don Endrizzi planted a fig tree outside his home, which sits a long stone's throw from Maine's largest salt marsh. Beach plum, cord grass, quack grass, foxtail barley, chaffy sedge, glasswort, poison ivy and cattails – also mosquitoes – call the marsh home. Fig trees do not. Home is the Mediterranean, where the fruits of the...
