Creating an Authentic Italian Feast!
Forget the turkey and stuffing this holiday season! A new Harris Poll reveals the flavors of the Mediterranean are the cuisine of choice for Americans nationwide. In honor of Italian Heritage Month, Chef Michael Angelo and his mom Sara - founders of Michael Angelo's Gourmet Foods - helps you serve up an authentic Italian feast for the holidays, or...
Piada Italian Street Food could open Tyler location
Piada Italian Street Food could soon open a Tyler location, company officials confirmed on Monday. The company has already posted an employment an on Facebook looking for managers. But no location or opening date has yet been announced. Piada Italian Street Food is a fast-casual Italian concept with locations in Richardson, Frisco, Fort Wo...
Amalfi brings Italian seafood cuisine to Houston
by Greg Morago Giancarlo Ferrara remembers the early morning smell of tomatoes cooking in his mother's kitchen as she began the family's big Sunday meal. "By the time we got back from church, everything was ready," he said, recalling the culinary traditions of his childhood in Salerno, Italy. The youngest of seven children of a fa...
Marcello's Wine Market Cafe expanding
by Megan Wyatt Gene Todaro Jr. and Gene Todaro Sr., owners of Marcello's Wine Market and Marcello's Wine Market Cafe, will be opening another location in Metairie. Expected to open in January, Marcello's Restaurant and Wine Bar will be the second location in the market. The Todaro family opened a business by the same name las...
Taverna Tossa's second location is opening in Southlake's Park Village
Craft beer and pizza is coming to the new Park Village Shopping Center in Southlake. Taverna Rossa, a project from the pizza-centric restaurant group that owns Cadillac Pizza Pub and Palio's Pizza Cafe, will open in April, according to a press release. This will be Taverna's second location, with the original located at Lakeside Market in Plano. T...
Dolce Neve, a New Gelateria, Opening January 10 on South First
Dolce Neve, the new gelateria from a family of Italian gelato experts, will be officially opening their doors January 10. Co-owner Marco Silvestrini told Eater that Dolce Neve will be serving up twenty different flavors, from traditional offerings like hazelnut to a seasonal rotation of fruits. They will also be serving sorbet and vegan gelato made...
Tour Sophia’s, Modern Italian-American Supper Club, Opening This Week
When Italian-influenced Sophia's opens on Friday, August 5 on West 6th Street., guests can expect traditional favorites—cacio e pepe, grilled salmon, bone-in ribeye—plus whole roasted fish, crudo, and orecchiette tartufate with black truffle cream. Eater photographer Courtney Pierce visited the space before its debut this week, which inclu...
Mangia at the mansion: palatial New Orleans address now "proudly American Italian" eatery
The mansion at the corner of Prytania Street and Jackson Avenue is flanked by white columns, framed by twisting oaks, fronted by a staircase big enough for the whole bridal party and dripping with a steamboat's load of cast iron. As a vignette of old Southern grandeur, it's classic. However, on the lower level of the stately property, the...
Mary Maestri's Italian Grillroom Closed, But Not Finished
Daniel Maestri is still confident that he will reopen Mary Maestri's Italian Grillroom, his family's iconic northwest Arkansas restaurant. Mary Maestri's closed at the end of February when its lease ran out at the restaurant's location on East Robinson Avenue in Springdale. Maestri was close to a deal with an investor to reopen the re...
Lidia Bastianich: The Dean of Eataly Chicago
In an Italian family, the celebratory ritual of creating and sharing the meal trumps all. In my own family this has also been the case. Providing and preparing delicious nourishment can become an event that connects the members of a family in the present—while linking us to our shared past, and to those no longer at the table. In the act o...
Lakeside restaurant offers Italian cuisine in a unique setting
by Jacque Hilburn-Simmons For an authentic taste of Italy, head to Hawkins, turn west at the stoplight and follow the signs into the woods. Along the way, roll down the windows, soak up the lakeside breeze and savor the fresh piney smell of swaying trees towering overhead. Don't get too relaxed, however - it's easy to miss the turn. &nb...
Review: Virgola Oysters & Italian Wine Bar brings slice of Big Apple to Brookside
A slice of the Big Apple landed on Brookside's plate with the recent opening of the chic Virgola Oysters & Italian Wine Bar. New York City has three Virgola Oysters locations, including the original, and Ormond Beach, Florida, has a franchise store like Tulsa's. That's it. "People come in here, and it's like being in New York," said Jenni...