First Ever Trust Mark Debuts In U.S. Italian Cheese
In response to decades of increased incidents of adulteration and fraud in the Italian hard cheese category, U.S. hard cheese leader Arthur Schuman Inc. (ASI) today announced the creation of the industry's first trust mark for quality assurance. The new True Cheese™ seal is intended to verify the integrity and quality of cheeses ASI makes...
Upcoming Italian Restaurant Le Farfalle Displays Signage
Crews are hustling at Le Farfalle to get the forthcoming Italian restaurant up and running soon at 15 Beaufain St. The door displays the logo, but there's still a lot going into the space right now. Le Farfalle predicted a June opening, but with two more days left in the month, that's highly unlikely. Eater has a feeling Charleston is will...
Black Olive brings Italian dining back to Jonesborough
Though the Johnson City restaurant scene is tootling merrily along, Jonesborough's got reason to crow with the addition of the newly opened Black Olive Italian restaurant. Located on Jackson Boulevard, Black Olive is 15 minutes from Johnson City, about 25 or so from Greeneville, is easily accessible and has a capacious parking lot. I first...
Bellina’s Italian Kitchen Opens at Southland Mall
Bellina's Italian Kitchen will be celebrating its grand opening at Southland Mall in Cutler Bay, FL on Friday, April 22nd at 5 pm. Bellina's is more than a great pizzeria, it serves authentic Italian, home-made cuisine. Customers will soon enjoy delicious pizzas, pasta, and more for not a lot of dough! Bellina's makes all their pasta, bread, gelato...
Marco's Pizza preparing to open new location in Gastonia
By Michael Just two years after making its debut in Gaston County, Marco's Pizza will soon be spreading its sauce a little wider. The newest location of the burgeoning Italian-American cuisine chain will open early next year beside the Hoffman Village shopping center, next to Publix. It will employ about 30 people, said Andy Hunter, an area r...
Buon Giorno! Bar Tulia invites locals to meet Italian winemaker
By Tiara Brown It may not be possible to have dinner in Naples, Italy with the expectation of making it home to Naples, Florida for bed on time, but diners at Bar Tulia might swear they've done just that. The authentic Italian restaurant offers a paralleled European experience in terms of authentic Italian food and wines. Specific...
Mia Madre Trattoria
By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth For a minute there, it looked like the traditional dominance of the local restaurant market by red-sauce Italian joints might be fading. Old stalwarts were closing, and in their place, a new generation of Asian and upscale American restaurants have begun offering chicken banh mi in place of chic...
Fauxciutto: Is Italian-American Cuisine Really Italian?
Please join us at the Village Garage at the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens for the second event of our 2013-2014 lecture series, Food for Thought. Nationally known chef and FIU faculty member, Mark D'Alessandro will examine concepts of Italian and Italian-American food in terms of its evolution in this country. He will touch on the context of...
Casa Vinicola Zonin USA Hosts Art of Wok Cooking Series with Miami's Wok Star Eleanor Hoh
Casa Vinicola Zonin USA is thrilled to host Miami's Wok Star Eleanor Hoh at their spectacular penthouse loft for a series of three exclusive Art of Wok Cooking Classes that will pair fine Italian wines with Asian cuisine. On August 21, October 23, and December 18 from 6:30-9:30pm, Hoh will demonstrate her signature no-recipe approach, comb...
CIAO! Annual Christmas Potluck Social Dec. 13
On Saturday, December 13, 2014, from 6 - 9 p.m., the Capital Italian American Organization (CIAO!) will be hosting its annual Christmas party and potluck social at Staybridge Suites located in the Summit East Complex at 1600 Summit Lake Drive, Tallahassee, just east of Interstate 10 on U.S. 90 (Mahan Drive). Please join us for good food, I...
Should you bet on Sorrisi?
By John Tanasychuk This past fall, the new chef at Sorrisi boldly announced that he wanted it to become "the premier Italian restaurant in South Florida." I love a good pronouncement. Six months after reading chef Jacob Perego's words inthe Sun Sentinel, we made our way to Seminole Casino Coconut Creek to check on the restaurant's pro...
Good value, hospitality at Cinque Terre in Davie
By John Tanasychuk Cinque Terre's unassuming setting on Nova Drive in Davie belies the talents of chef Aldo Marcon. Born and trained in Italy, he worked in New York and then New Orleans, where the storied restaurant he bought into, La Riviera in Metairie, was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. He left Louisiana for Miami, where...