A little bit of Italy opens in Homer
On a trip to the Spit one can find freshly cooked seafood, gift shops, fishing charters, tourists from a variety of places and, now, gelato. Nestled in between AK Starfish Co. and Alpaca Connection, Carmen's Gelato serves up authentic Italian gelato, made by 29-year-old Homer native Carmen Ricciardi. Previously, Carmen's Gelato existed as a ca...
Cafe Lago's Portage Bay Market and Italian Deli Is Open
Little Lago, the neighborhood market and Italian deli spin-off of Montlake's popular Cafe Lago, has quietly opened. The project from Carla Leonardi replaces Ericka Burke's upscale mercantile Canal Market, which closed in February. Little Lago's social media channels are calling this a "soft opening," which for all intents and purposes mean...
Galletti’s serves Italian in Seaview
A hybrid restaurant opened in Seaview last July, in the location that once hosted a dollar store and then a gun shop. In the morning and early afternoon the building is home to the Metro Espresso, offering breakfast, lunch and coffee. In the evening the establishment is Galletti's, an Italian restaurant filling what owners Ron and Sue Ann Starheim...
Dondino Has Finally Come Back Home to Las Vegas
The Italian American Club on August 11, 2013 welcomed Dondino back to Las Vegas and the audience once again fell in love with the magnificent Dondino. Vibrant and stunning as ever, dressed in his signature tuxedo, Dondino captured the audience. His style and humor had the audience recalling memories of why they fell in love with him so man...
Salt Lake City native chucks it all for Italy
What traveler hasn't daydreamed of selling one's possessions and returning to live in the foreign country where one feels alive and full of joy? But how many people actually do it? Salt Lake City native Lisa Condie did and is creating a new life in Florence, Italy, where she and another Salt Lake City native are building a tour compan...
Arizona Culinary Hall of Fame winners named
And this year's inductees to the Arizona Culinary Hall of Fame are...... Gio Osso of Virtu Honest Craft for Chef of the Year. Osso, who's known for his modern Italian cuisine, beat out an illustrious group that included Charleen Badman of FnB, Mel Mecinas of Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North, and Justin Beckett of Beckett's Table a...
Restaurant review: Trattoria Sbandati
Spaghetti and meatballs are not Italian food. Ask Juri Sbandati. At Trattoria Sbandati on Bend's west side, you also won't find fettucine Alfredo, chicken Parmigiana or veal Marsala on the carefully considered menu. This is not, after all, a dimly lit Italian café with red-checkered tablecloths and candles fashioned from Chianti bottl...
The new version of Annie's Gourmet Italian Bistro is even more comfortable
Every neighborhood needs a cozy Italian restaurant to call its own, and Green Valley has a handful of favorite haunts where the regulars are loyal and the food is hearty. Annie's Gourmet Italian Bistro, which reopened earlier this year after moving from its location of five years on Horizon Ridge Parkway to a higher-profile retail center just off t...
Astoria’s Via Vai brings back traditional Italian lunch. Yes, including handmade pasta
Rome native owner and chef Antonio Morichini wants his Italian restaurant in Via Vai to resemble a piece of "Italy in Astoria." The restaurant and wine bar located at 31-09 23rd Ave. has become a neighborhood favorite since it first opened in June 2014, even attracting guests from outside the city. After living abroad in Italy for several...
Coming to Ballard Ave: An Italian Restaurant with a Past
To walk down Ballard Ave is to notice that funny old green house. It looks like a home where Laura Ingalls Wilder and family might have hunkered down for a long prairie winter, dropped improbably in a tight-shouldered row of brick and stone storefronts otherwise pulsing with bars and boutiques. The structure is actually two houses fitted t...
Guido’s maintains long history with Chaparral High School
Tucked away in the back corner of a shopping center on Scottsdale Road, sits Guido's Chicago Meats and Deli — a place that also lies in the hearts and stomachs of the Chaparral High School students a few blocks away. For 33 years, the Italian-style restaurant has curbed the hunger of its neighboring students, serving as a local hotspot for...
DeNicola’s Italian Restaurant: Serving Family Recipes Since 1978
by Kerry-Lynne Demarinis Opening the door into DeNicola's Italian Restaurant is like opening the door into your grandmother's kitchen. You are welcomed with a smile, invited to sit down, surrounded by loud conversation and laughter, and there are all those wonderful Italian aromas – baking eggplant in sauce and cheese, simmering p...