First look: Marmo, the refined Italian deli in downtown Portland
by Samantha Bakall "I have an obsession with marble," Kevin Chambers, the former Chefstable operations manager, says. The weekend of May 8, Chambers, with culinary guidance from friend and former Bluehour chef Thomas Boyce, will be opening Marmo, a refined, casual Italian deli in downtown Portland. Italian for marble, Marmo h...
Lou Malnati's pizza coming to Uptown Plaza in Phoenix
Congratulations, Uptown Plaza, you win the Lou Malnati's lottery! The much-beloved purveyor of Chicago-style, deep-dish pizza is targeting a May opening, and the restaurant's management has chosen a location at Phoenix's Uptown Plaza, alongside Sam Fox's Flower Child and New York's famed burger joint, Shake Shack. It's a coup both for...
La Bella Pizzeria in Phoenix Serves Kosher, Vegetarian Italian Cuisine
by Robrt Pela I paused for a moment outside La Bella Pizzeria last Friday afternoon. Oh, no. I thought. I heard this was a kosher Italian restaurant. Yet nothing among the many signs posted outside this neat-as-a-pin strip mall diner indicated that one could eat here without busting Kashrut. Then I stepped inside and saw the...
Seattle’s oldest houses become home to San Fermo, an inviting Italian restaurant
By Providence Cicero Opening a restaurant is never easy, but the owners of San Fermo cleared historic hurdles in renovating The Pioneer Houses to create an inviting, unpretentious neighborhood Italian restaurant. Erected in the 1850s, the twin, two-story structures are believed to be Seattle's oldest, intact residential properties...
Openings and closings: Hello to two Italian restaurants, adios to a Mexican one (for the second time)
Italian food dominates the menu this week for local restaurant openings. One locale is expanding, while two new restaurants will offer pizza, pasta and other Italian favorites. In Summerlin, however, patrons will say adios to an upscale Mexican restaurant for the second time. Take a look at some of the valley's recent openings and closin...
Salute Is a Little Slice of Italy
by Al Mancini In a town full of flashy celebrity chefs, it's easy to overlook some of the corporate executive chefs who run large, quality local restaurant groups from a little further behind the scenes. Brian Massie has long been one of those chefs. For years he helmed kitchens at many of the restaurants within the Light Group em...
Ferraro’s Introduces Il Circolo Wine Club
Gino Ferraro, owner of Ferraro's Italian Restaurant & Wine Bar, introduces an extraordinary opportunity for wine and food lovers—Il Circolo, the Ferraro's Wine Club. Members will enjoy authentic Italian food, superb wines and gain invaluable knowledge about Italy's best wines and wine producers from Tuscany and the Piedmont. Members will join...
Think Local: Reno Italian family serves up tasty food at Toni Rigatonis
Chicken marsala and hot spaghetti are both smells you'll find in a typical Italian kitchen. Chris Schiavone, owner of Toni Rigatonis, said, "The kitchen is open so it provides the warmth. There's no enclosures so the warmth and the smells of the kitchen just waft through the whole restaurant." Inspired from his childhood memories, Sch...
New Italian in town
By John Gottberg Anderson The only thing that really disappoints me about the new Pasta House Bar & Grill, in the Bend Factory Stores on S. U.S. Highway 97, is its lack of fresh pastas. The restaurant doesn't make its own pastas, and there are too few varieties of what it offers. Beyond that — and partners Chip Simmons and Karen Davis...
Chef Ivano Centemeri on judging Italian Festival pasta sauces - and how to make a winning sauce
For almost a decade in the run of the pasta sauce competition at the Eldorado Great Italian Festival — the 32nd festival is Saturday and Sunday in downtown Reno — chef Ivano Centemeri of La Strada has been eminenza of the cook-off, its chief judge, its best raconteur. For many festivals, I've judged alongside him. Last year, nearly 50 fami...
New York Hot Spot Carbone Makes the Leap to Sin City
by Melinda Sheckells Now that Christmas has come and passed and your family has finally packed up left, you've definitely earned a bit of "me time." The obvious choice for a weekend rendezvous is Las Vegas, especially with the new crop of restaurants being opened by top chefs from across the country. And if you're searching for a spot to...
Chef Claudio Sadler visits arte italia in January!
arte italia is pleased to announce an exciting culinary class schedule withMichelin Star Chef Claudio Sadler from January 25 - 27, 2015! Please read about visiting Chef Claudio Sadler and enter your name in the newRandomized Selection Registration explained below. You may register anytimefrom November 24 - December 14, 2014. Arriveder...