At this new CBD restaurant, a journey from Italy due south from Memphis
The restaurant group that Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman have built in their hometown of Memphis is as tight knit as they come. The two chefs have been friends since the sixth grade. They live a few blocks from one another. Their three restaurants all sit on the same block. Now they've leapfrogged about 400 miles due south to New Orleans fo...
D’Amico’s on White Oak closes, but more locations on the way
Just over two years after opening, D'Amico's Italian Market has closed its location on White Oak. According to a statement from owners Nash D'Amico and Brina D'Amico Donaldson, the decision to close had a lot to do with the reorientation of White Oak towards bars and nightlife. Local blog The Heights Life reported on Facebook that the main iss...
Patranella’s continue family tradition
By Michael Sudhalter Washington Heights resident Sammy Patranella Sr. grew up in a home that his father built in 1938, a block away from Washington Ave. Sammy Sr., along with his wife, Josephine and son, Sammy Jr., started the restaurant in 1991 built a restaurant in that same home, 813 Jackson Hill St. It's no surprise that Patranel...
The Italian Joint
By Christopher Shelton Pizza is a customer favorite at Old Town Spring restaurant The Italian Joint. When Maria Macri took her first stroll among the shops in Old Town Spring, she said she knew it was the right spot for her future restaurant. "Literally the minute I drove in I heard the angels sing," Maria said. "I was like,...
Insight. Texas e Agroalimentare: un mercato tutto da scoprire
Il Texas è uno degli Stati Americani caratterizzati dalla più veloce crescita economica e demografica degli ultimi 5 anni. È il terzo stato dell'Unione per prodotto interno lordo, situandosi, dietro laCalifornia e lo Stato di New York. Ha una popolazione di 26 milioni di abitanti, con un reddito medio procapite di 45mila dollari. Tre città...
"Settimana della Cucina Europea": la Sicilia a Houston
La cucina è magia, e con un moto d'orgoglio possiamo dire che quella mediterranea è senz'altro la più ricca in fantasia. Per celebrarla si è inaugurata a Houston, in Texas, la "Settimana della Cucina Mediterranea", una manifestazione che durerà da sabato 11 a sabato 18 maggio, inquadrata nel contesto dell'Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uni...
With Amalfi, an Italian star is born
by Alison Cook Several bites into the Dungeness crab salad at Amalfi, the svelte new Italian restaurant from former Arcodoro chef Giancarlo Ferrara, I hit something unfamiliar. Amid pearly hunks of crabmeat, gentle flecks of chive and perfumed lemon dressing hid a pale, stemmy green with a curiously supple crunch. It wasn't bitter...
Neighborhood Eats: Radio Milano
Immediately when you walk through the doors of Radio Milano Restaurant in City Centre you get a hip, chic feeling like you're in the coolest corner of Los Angeles or Miami or some other sunny sleek cosmopolitan locale. The restaurant is located inside of Hotel Sorella. The name came about because of the owners' declaration that they a...
Maggiano's Little Italy opens 50th location in Friendswood mall
by Allen Jones Maggiano's Little Italy opened in the newly expanded Baybrook Mall at 700 Baybrook Mall Drive in Friendswood. The Brinker International Inc. owned and operated restaurant opened Nov. 9. It is the second location the company has opened in the greater Houston area offering a made-from-scratch Italian-American menu. ...
First look: Pi Pizza
by Greg Morago Houston is mad for pizza. Pie shops are opening faster than you can say pepperoni. But pieman Anthony Calleo of Pi Pizza isn't sweating the competition. He knows he has great pizza. So do his many fans who knew him from more than four years of slinging slices out of his popular pizza truck. His biggest vote of confidenc...
Houston developer to build Italian-style hotel in hills of Westlake
A prominent Houston developer will build an Italian-inspired luxury hotel on a high bluff overlooking Austin and the Hill Country, alongside a new office building project. Giorgio Borlenghi, founder of Interfin Cos. LP and a native of Milan, Italy, will build the Hotel Granduca northwest of the corner of Capital of Texas Highway and Bee Cave Road....
Collaborazione con Fiera Verona: Vinitaly
Città: VeronaPaese: ITALIAPeriodo di svolgimento: 04/04/2013 - 10/04/2013Partners: Fiera VeronaDescrizione: Come ogni anno continuerà con Fiera Verona la collaborazione della Italy-America Chamber of Commerce of Texas per il Vinitaly, fiera di riferimento per il settore vinicolo ed enogastronomico. Giunto ormai alla 47° edizione il Vinitaly rappres...