Record assoluto per la tappa in Texas del Gelato World Tour
Il Nord America impazzisce per il gelato artigianale grazie al contest itinerante più goloso del mondo. Oltre 63.000 persone hanno partecipato al Gelato World Tour di maggio 2014 in Republic Square, DownTown Austin, e alla preview esclusiva a New York City durante il weekend dei James Beard Foundation Awards. Read more So...
Marvino’s Italian Kitchen
By Virginia Lascara Business at the family-owned Marvino's Italian Kitchen has been picking up since its grand opening in May, owner David Herrera said. Herrera runs Marvino's with his wife, Alicia, and their two sons. The family also owns Alicia's Mexican Grill and Dario's American Cuisine, which have locations throughout the Houston...
Tracing Austin's Italian Food Boom
In Austin, new types of cuisine tend to arrive in distinct waves, as if savvy restaurateurs all had the same great idea at once. Ramen, fusion tacos, or New American small plates all had their predictable moment, but our city's recent saturation of Italian restaurants was less expected, quickly changing the landscape for local diners. Yelp Austin's...
Michael Gulotta named a Best New Chef by Food & Wine magazine
Michael Gulotta of MoPho (514 City Park Ave., 504-482-6845) has been named a Best New Chef by Food & Wine magazine. The group of eleven chefs were announced Monday morning on the publication's website. Food & Wine announces the yearly winners every spring and the 2016 class will be featured in the magazine's July print issue as wel...
Italy is Served - New ICCC Chef's Cooking Demo and Dinner Series
The Italian Cultural & Community Center of Houston launched this January, with great enthusiasm of the public, a new series of educational cooking demonstration and dinner aimed to promote and to guide the public through the history, the tradition and the flavors of the Italian-American Cuisine. The second appointment of this new and exciting...
Russo's Restaurants Targets Regional Growth throughout Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas
Russo's Restaurants, the family of dining concepts that includes Russo's New York Pizzeria and Russo's Coal-Fired Italian Kitchen, announced today plans to significantly enhance the brands' footprint in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, all of which have a current Russo's presence. Evidencing the excitement around both brands, Russo's kicked off 2014...
Le Strade del Vino del Veneto
"Le Strade del Vino" are paths within territories, wine growing areas, as well as vineyards, wineries, farms, natural attractions, cultural and historical sites that are particularly significant for the purposes of integrated tourism within Italy. The intent of our new ICCC series of Educational Wine Tasting is to promote and encourage the Ita...
Russo's delivers a slice of New York to South Padre Island
Russo's New York Pizzeria has opened a location in South Padre Island, Texas. "Residents, the workforce and visitors to town are getting a true 'slice' of New York in South Padre Island," Gabriel Kauachi of VKL Franchise, LLC, an experienced group of entrepreneurs with more than 100 businesses in south Texas. We are truly excited to share Chef...
La Divina Italian Cafe opens B.R. location Nov. 8
La Divina Italian Café opens for business on Friday, Nov. 8 at 3535 Perkins Road Suite 360 in the new Acadian Village Shopping Center. Cafe hours are 7 a.m. – 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. on Sunday. La Divina is committed to producing delicious, artisanal Italian food, gelati and sorbetti in a sustainable business envir...
Tony Vallone's Regional Italian Cuisine Dinner Series
by Mai Pham 'You don't even need a knife," the woman seated next to me, the wife of a prominent local judge, advised. I'd just picked up my knife and fork, ready to take a bite of a delicious-looking piece of gaddina a 'muddicata, Sicilian for our second course of breaded baked chicken. Taking her advice, I put down my knife and used my fo...
Gino's East Chicago Pizzeria opens to hundreds of hungry customers
Gino's East Chicago Pizzeria opened Thursday in San Antonio to hundreds of hungry customers looking to try the new restaurant. Located at 8224 Fredericksburg Road, Gino's offers its well-known deep-dish pizzas such as the Patty-Style Sausage Pizza, the Chicago Fire pizza and the Meaty Legend pizza. The location has a full bar wi...
How David Campisi Keeps Growing the Family Business
David Campisi treats diners who walk through the doors of his restaurants as though they're guests in his own home. And in a way, they are. If walls could talk, those in the original Campisi's Egyptian Restaurant in Dallas would tell nearly 70 years of stories about four generations of Campisis, the famous guests who dined there, and the family's S...