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By Jennifer Gould East Hampton diners will soon have a new place to go after the beach. Sag Harbor's Dopo La Spiaggia, which means "after the beach" in Italian, will open a larger East Hampton outpost this October, Side Dish has learned.   Chef and co-owner Maurizio Marfoglia will open the locally sourced, southern Italian-centric eate...

By Amanda Antinore When the snow outside is furiously falling and temperatures are dropping by the minute, certain kinds of cooking can warm the soul from the inside out. For me, Italian comfort food is surely one of them, so I was happy when my friend and I found ourselves at Lemoncello in East Rochester during the very first big snowfall of the...

Think getting a reservation in your city's hot spot is tough? Just try to nab a meal at Rao's, which is so popular with its regulars that the phone lines never open.   The tiny eatery in New York's East Harlem is "the toughest restaurant reservation in this country," writes Forbes' Larry Olmsted. The Italian restaurant only has about a dozen...

By Channaly Philipp   Giano, an Italian gem in the East Village, is named after the old Roman god Janus, the deity of beginnings and doorways. In mythology, Janus, has two faces looking in opposite directions, one to the past, and the other to the future.   The decor at Giano takes inspiration from this in an unusual way. The front of...

Yeah, yeah, yeah, our borough has the best legit Italian culture in all five boroughs. However, it doesn't hurt to sample off-Island offerings once in a while.   On Sunday, June 22, the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum will host an upstate bus trip to the Magnanini Vineyards in Wallkill, New York. After a stroll on the lush 13-acres of beautiful coun...

The chef behind acclaimed Italian eatery Trattoria L'incontro will be heading up the kitchen of a new restaurant in Long Island City that's set to open next month.Rocco Sacramone, who opened the Zagat-rated Trattoria L'incontro in 1999, is teaming up with Tommy Demaras — owner of Astoria restaurant and lounge Cavo — to open Maiella on the Long Isla...

Amazon ha stipulato un accordo commerciale per distribuire online i prodotti alimentari di Eataly a New York. La partership tra il colosso guidato da Jeff Bezos e la catena di patron Farinetti consentirà di rendere più affidabili ed efficienti le consegne nella Grande Mela del cibo italiano e se l'esperimento avrà successo è presumibile che potrebb...

'Tis the season to feast! For holiday food shopping and more, head toEataly, a large Italian marketplace in New York City owned in part by famed chef Mario Batali. "It's kind of like a melting pot of energy and discovery," explains General Manager Dan Amatuzzi of the foodie destination. "Eataly is the summation of Italian food and wine under o...

Appuntamento a New York e Los Angeles con il Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino, che presenterà l'eccellenza enologica nostrana nelle due città americane rispettivamente il 27 ed il 30 gennaio in occasione dell'evento "Benvenuto Brunello. World Experience USA 2014".   Una esperienza unica per conoscere e gustare oltre trenta tra le pi...

Hail To The Chef! Ernest Lepore, co-owner and Executive Chef of Little Italy's world famous Ferrara Café & Bakery, predicted he would create the World's Largest Cannolo and this past Saturday, September 20, 2014, he did it!   Weighing in at a record 348 pounds and measuring 12 feet in length, the "Ferrara IL GRANDE CANNOLO was introduced...

By Siobhan Connally If you ask Chef Rocco Verrigni, a professor of culinary arts at Schenectady County Community College, to talk about holiday meals, you'll find his tastes are firmly rooted in childhood.   "I feel very fortunate to have grown up in a multi-generational Italian home where food was important, but also in a household with a...

Summer is over in New York City (although the temperatures suggest otherwise) and Eataly NYC's Flatiron location has once again turned its rooftop beer garden into an Italian Alps-themed restaurant for the winter.   The 2.0 version of Baita (pronounced bye-tah), a Piemontese word for small ski lodge in the Italian Alps, opens to the public t...