Villa Fresh Italian Kitchen Freshens up the Florida Turnpike
Villa Enterprises Management Ltd., Inc. (www.villaenterprises.com), a global multi-concept restaurant franchisor, announced the reopening of two Villa Fresh Italian Kitchen locations along the Florida Turnpike. As part of the Florida Turnpike's multi-million dollar system-wide service plaza reconstruction project, renovated concepts opened recently...
Italian Wine Deconstructed – A Trip “Down the Boot”: Italian Wine Specialist Certification Course
There will be a special group of wine professionals and wine lovers gathered at Toscana Divino at Mary Brickell Village (Downtown Miami) beginning October 26, 2013. This group will be swirling, sniffing, sipping, and spitting as part of a hands-on approach to learning all that can be known about Italian wine: the regions, terroir, how to taste, Ita...
Your New Italian Tour de Force Goes Like This
With all due respect to Nonnas around the world... Please, take a seat. For now we share a world with Mazzi Cucina, a new sliver of eccentricity serving some of the most authentic Italian we've seen around these parts in a while, now open in North Miami Beach. Before you launch into one of those "Oh, another Italian restaurant" m...
Dal Cuore brings Italy's flavor to Johns Creek
by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson Nestled behind the QT and Waffle House on the corner of State Bridge and Jones Bridge roads in Johns Creek sits a taste of Italy with a dash of New York. Dal Cuore restaurant, located at 2100 Ray Moss Connector in Johns Creek, is an authentic New York-Italian restaurant featuring family recipes passed do...
Italian seafood finds a foothold in the South
by Hanna Raskin The relative scarcity of spaghetti and meatballs in Charleston could bode well for the future of Italian food here, observers say. According to Nicolo de Rienzo, an Italian food writer now researching a story about eating in the U.S. South, many Southern cities appear less bound by the red-sauce traditions that rei...
America and the Old World: Food, Health and Culture. Il Forum di Miami gemellato con Expo. Paolo Cuccia tra i relatori
Si terrà il 12 marzo in Florida, presso il Miami Dade College, il Forum America and the Old World: Food, Health and Culture che esplora il patrimonio culturale gastronomico americano e come le sue radici influenzino abitudini alimentari, gusti e benessere di un'intera nazione. L'iniziativa si inquadra nella più ampia rassegna Feeding the P...
Calabria Ristorante You’ll Love Our Spin On Pizza!
Located at 13900 CR 455, in the Publix Shopping Center, Calabria offers a relaxed family atmosphere, full bar, and covered patio seating outside. We provide a great menu for lunch or dinner, indoors or on the patio. Calabria Ristorante features delicious Italian food, including pastas, seafood and New York-style pizza, all at fair prices. Owners,...
Mangia at Soya e Pomodoro In Taste Of The Town
by Lisa Petrillo There's an Italian eatery in downtown Miami with a huge fan base of local customers because of its simple, delicious food. Soya e Pomodoro is downtown Miami's hidden gem just off First street It's Old World Italian at its best. "This is the best eggplant I've ever had," exclaimed CBS4′s Lisa Petrillo as she bit into...
PieTopia to bring 'meter pizzas' and more to 4th Street in St. Pete
by Eric Snider The slew of new restaurants invading the Fourth Street North corridor in St. Petersburg have a couple of common characteristics: Most are independently, and locally, owned; several possess a culinary ambitiousness that sets a new bar for the trade area. The forthcoming PieTopia gets check marks for both criteria. The u...
Bottoms Up: Il Giorgione not your average mom and pop pizza shop
by Dwaun Sellers Picture it: Urbino, Italy 1982. A young George (Giorgione) Kessler is studying Italian language, history, literature and film abroad through the University of South Carolina. "He totally got hooked on Italy," said his wife and business partner, Monica Kessler. The pair moved to Columbia in December 2011 and ope...
Chef Vinny Dotolo: from Tampa Bay to Han Solo’s Kitchen and beyond
By Valerio Viale Chef Vinny Dotolo (born in Clearwater, Florida) was not the typical kid messing about the kitchen's stoves and dreaming to head one day the organized bedlam of his own kitchen. However, he was brought up on his Italian-American grandma's recipes, such as baked manicotti shells, chicken piccata, and meat ragù, a mix of por...
DePalma's Brings Italian Roots to Georgia Soil
By Chloe Morales Downtown Athens's DePalma's Italian Cafe began with a question: Where to find truly great pizza? Today, the answer lies in the trattoria's expansion to four locations throughout the northwest area of Georgia. Patch: Tell us about the DePalma's beginnings. Cappi: We actually started DePalma's back in 1986 in Atlanta on Co...