Seattle’s Best Italian Food
Seattle has an interesting relationship with Italian food. Other regions of the U.S. (especially the East Coast) have a long lineage of classic and homey Italian American restaurants founded by early 20th-century immigrants from Southern Italy, but the Italian restaurant heritage in the Puget Sound region is much more recent — as in, there are no r...
‘Top Chef’ contestant Gabriel Pascuzzi to open Italian steakhouse Bistecca
Gabriel Pascuzzi, the Portland-born chef and “Top Chef” season 18 contestant, plans to transform his 5-year-old Slabtown restaurant Mama Bird into Bistecca, a wood-fired steakhouse with Italian touches. Mama Bird’s last day will be January 26. After a brief remodel to add more booths and paint the walls dark green, Bistecca will open in the same No...
La Spiaggia Ristorante — an Italian restaurant gem in Ocean Shores
It sounds like La Spiaggia Ristorante has a fan for life in Cal O’Brien. With reviews like his, it’s clear the restaurant will add more loyal customers like him. “My wife and I agree this is the best Italian food we’ve had outside of Italy,” O’Brien said. “It’s on par with anything we ate in Venice.” O’Brien, a longtime Harborite, has been to La Sp...
Russo's New York Pizzeria now open in Mesa, Arizona
Russo’s New York Pizzeria, the authentic New York-style Italian kitchen, expands with a new location at 4537 S Power Rd #101, Mesa, AZ 85212, bringing classic Italian flavors to the community. The new location serves giant pizza by the slice alongside Chef Russo’s family recipes, including fresh homemade lasagna, baked ziti, fettuccine Alfredo, spa...
Saint Pasta opens new bricks & mortar location Wednesday in Phoenix
Saint Pasta, a popular Italian food truck that left its brick-and-mortar home at The Pemberton in 2022, opens a new bricks-and-mortar restaurant Wednesday in downtown Phoenix. It takes over the space briefly home to The Pairing Room and, before that, The Larder & The Delta, on the northwest corner of First Avenue and Portland Street. Owner/chef Rac...
Is This Park City’s Best New Italian Restaurant? Inside the Buzz Around LOMA
Ever since Chef Adam Ross and his wife Meisha opened Twisted Fern restaurant in Park City in 2017, I have been telling anyone who will listen to me to go eat there. It’s not just one of my favorite Park City eateries, but one of Utah’s best restaurants in my opinion. And so, I was thrilled when I learned a few months ago that Adam and Meisha were...
The 10 best Italian restaurants in Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix has become known as a go-to destination for pizza. And we certainly do have a wonderful selection of spots to grab a slice or share a pie. But Italian food is filled with riches. And, lucky for us, Phoenix is filled with exceptional Italian restaurants churning out everything from pizza and pasta to delectable seafood, bread dipped in the b...
The Haunted Pizano Brings Authentic, Old-World Italian Flavors with Modern Edge to Jerome
The Haunted Group, a renowned hospitality group credited with putting Jerome and Cottonwood "on the map" as Northern Arizona tourism destinations, announces the grand opening of The Haunted Pizano. This much-anticipated authentic Italian pizzeria promises a unique blend of tradition and innovation, inviting guests to savor stone-fired pizzas, house...
New Italian eatery ‘La Zozzona’ opening in Scottsdale this week
A new Italian eatery from award-winning Chef Richard Blais is arriving in Scottsdale this week. La Zozzona, which is Italian for “messy, rich or substantial,” is Blais’ first Arizona-based restaurant and is opening on Wednesday at The Grand Hyatt Scottsdale Resort. Blais, a James Beard Award-nominated cookbook author, is known for finishing as the...
Per Noi Trattoria: Classic Italian Dining and Family Tradition on Highland Drive
For me, walking into Per Noi Trattoria on Highland Drive is a bit like stepping back in time. I first wrote about Per Noi in 2012 when it opened on Stratford Avenue. It was a small space – seating a mere 28 guests – and the owners were smart in 2018 to relocate Per Noi to the sprawling location that was formerly Michelangelo on Highland. But when I...
North Italia Opens in Peoria
North Italia, a popular modern Italian restaurant known for its scratch-made dishes, has expanded in Arizona with the opening of a new location in Peoria. North Italia Peoria will be the fifth in the state. Newly opened North Italia Peoria is located in the Peoria Eighty Three entertainment district, part of the Peoria Sports Complex. This area is...
Family-owned Italian restaurant offers Phoenix’s longest pizza
October is National Pizza Month, and one locally-owned restaurant is serving the longest pizza in Phoenix! Pizza A Metro opened 16 years ago near 23rd Avenue and Thomas Road. The small, family-owned restaurant offers authentic, delicious, made-from-scratch dishes like pizza, pasta and salads. “We have a lot of dishes which are made from scratch, ha...