Review: Altamura on Prytania Street
There are many types of Italian restaurants in New Orleans, including down-home Creole-Italian joints, classic trattorias with Sicilian roots and rustic, Northern Italian-inspired eateries. At Altamura, there's an East Coast influence, as the elegant new restaurant from ManhattanJack duo Jack Petronella and chef Coleman Jernigan pays tribute to spo...
Using 2,000 Gallons of Milk a Week, Mozzarella Company Creates Some of the City's Best Cheese
It’s 9 a.m., and through the vinyl slats of the Mozzarella Company, Elm Street’s long-standing cheese company, you can see cheesemakers piling bright green chilies for discs of queso blanco. Mauricio Travesi, the soft-spoken general manager, slices a piece from a wedge of Chihuahua cheese with dashes of pimento and passes it to me. You likely know...
Interview with Chef Daniele Puleo of Dallas’ CiboDivino
Daniele Puleo has been in the restaurant business for more than thirty years. He grew up in Sicily, but he knew the US was where he wanted to make his culinary mark. So when he was twenty-two-years-old, he made his way to Scottsdale, AR, where he opened Tiramisu restaurant. After Scottsdale, it was Los Angeles where it wasn’t long before he was hos...
Dallas Italian family restaurant saying goodbye after nearly six decades
Dallas has a new restaurant opening just about every week. Some concepts last only months while many other stick around longer. However, few have the staying power of nearly six decades run by one couple married more than 50 years. Step inside Pietro's Italian Restaurant on Richmond in the Lower Greenville neighborhood and the present feels a who...
Owner of Vero Italian Kitchen in Cypress builds roots in community
Ever since opening his restaurant in Cypress in January 2016, Jon Felicia has been looking to spread the word about Vero, which means “true” or “real” in Italian. A Cy-Fair native, Felicia opened Vero Italian Kitchen across the street from Cypress Woods High School, where he graduated in 2009. After working his way up the ranks at the Conroe locati...
Aperitivo Italiano @ Sxsw 2017
Wed, March 15, 2017, 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM CDT. Numero 28, 452 West 2nd Street, Austin, TX 78701 Join Italy's official Sxsw 2017 party APERITIVO ITALIANO with live music, dj set and high end italian appetizer. Live Performances and Dj Set By Altre di B , Birthh, Damien McFly, Echopark, Gio Sada & BariSmoothSquad, Giungla, Halfalib, Nothing For Breakfa...
Social media connects New Orleans restaurateur with Italian heritage
Jack Petronella has never been to Altamura in Southern Italy. But he knew he had family there. That's the town his grandparents left in the 1900s to immigrate to New York. When Petronella, who also owns the bakery Manhattanjack, opened an Italian restaurant in the Magnolia Mansion last summer, he called it Altamura to honor his grandparents. "My gr...
Alan Paryzek heads up Ciao Bello kitchen
Tony Vallone excels at orchestration. You don't get to mark more than half a century in the restaurant business, as Vallone has, without knowing how to coordinate elements to deliver the maximum punch. And perhaps that's why he chose to trumpet a new chef at Ciao Bello two months after the toque already started. But in announcing the arrival of exe...
An Upscale Italian Destination Opens in Downtown Houston
Luxury is the name of the game at Houston Astros owner Jim Crane's highly anticipated restaurant Potente, a high-end Italian eatery that's officially open in the 500 Crawford building across from Minute Maid Park. Potente will also be followed by the opening of Crane's adjacent, casual trattoria, Osso & Kristalla,on February 20. Both concepts are n...
Chocolate: That's Amore! A Valentine's Day Workshop
Tuesday, February 14, 2017. Events starts at 7:00 pm, doors open at 6:30 pm. Previous registration is required: $35 for members, $40 for non-members. Italian Cultural & Community Center - 1101 Milford - Houston, TX Chocolate: That's Amore! A Valentine's Day Workshop. Join us for a sweet and chocolaty evening on Valentine’s Day! Come experience a ha...
Head to the New Laurenzo’s Bar & Grill for Handmade Pasta
YOU CAN ALREADY GET HAND-ROLLED PASTA at Laurenzo’s Restaurant on Washington Avenue. The Italian and steak-focused restaurant from the Laurenzo family, best known for its matriarch Ninfa, who opened her eponymous Mexican spot in 1973, welcomed a sequel last Monday with the opening of Laurenzo’s Bar & Grill in Midtown. And according to executive che...
Gioia's Deli wins coveted James Beard America's Classics Award
The James Beard Foundation just announced the five winners of the America’s Classics Award for 2017. A St. Louis restaurant was recognized for the first time since the award’s inception in 1998. Stroud’s, Kansas City’s famous pan-fried chicken eatery, was honored that year and until today was the only Missouri restaurant to receive the James Beard...