Oggi Ristorante in Broadview Heights will transition to Bistro 82 in May
Oggi Ristorante, an upscale Italian restaurant at the northeast corner of Ohio 82 and Broadview Road, is about to undergo a transformation. The restaurant, under new ownership, will soon become Bistro 82. It will remain upscale and will continue to serve Italian dishes, but the cuisine will expand. The change is scheduled for May, although a precis...
Portillo's Announces New Avon Location Opening Fall 2018
Portillo's, the fast casual concept restaurant known for its highly-praised menu of Chicago-style favorites has announced a new location in Avon at 10444 E. U.S. Hwy. 36, set to open this fall. Portillo's says the Avon location follows spots in Merrillville, Fishers, and Mishawaka, with an Indianapolis restaurant set to open later this summer. "Tho...
Bidding “Addio” To YSU
A full-time Italian professor at Youngstown State University will be departing for a new opportunity at Loyola University Chicago in the fall. Carla Simonini accepted a position at LUC, where she has been named the inaugural Paul and Ann Rubino Professor in Italian American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. According to LUC’s University...
Exclusive wines and specialty food at Acqua in Vino
Do you like wine? How about exclusive wines paired with your favorite pastas, meats, cheeses and more?! Well we have the perfect place for you! This week, we took a trip to Acqua in Vino, the specialty food and wine store homed in Wayland, just a short trip South of Grand Rapids. With a beautiful tour and a delicious food and wine tasting, Acqua in...
DiMario Foods: The Small Family Disrupting A Big Market
DiMario Foods is a brand as unprecedented as their product offerings, which include pork and chicken snack sticks—two previously unlikely options in the meat snack industry. Their unique flavors are inspired by the family’s traditional Italian recipes. “Our recipes derive from our family’s traditions, which have been a century in the making”—someth...
Italian eats: Chicago's 6 best spots for budget-friendly fare
Craving Italian food? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the best affordable Italian restaurants around Chicago, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of where to fill the bill. The Art Of Pizza; Dimo's Pizza; Conte Di Savoia; Ricobene's; Tony's Italian Deli & Subs; Bongiorno's Italian Deli & Pizzeria
Festa Italiana brings back $7 ticket deal
Festa Italiana is bringing back their spring ticket deal with tickets for only $7. The deal only lasts for seven days once a month in April, May and June. General admission is $13 at the gate and kids under 12-years-old get in for free. Online tickets before the event will cost $10. The ticket deal will run from April 16-22, May 14-20 and June 18-2...
List says state's best Italian place is in Wichita (and it's not the one you think)
As experts on Italian food goes, I'd rank people living and working in New York City right up there. So a recent list published on the New York Daily News website, purporting to contain the name of the best Italian restaurant in each of the 50 states, caught my attention. The list, which was posted earlier this year, is presented as a mouthwatering...
Growing up, Chicago brothers discover their father's friends were mobsters. They wrote a book.
Childhood is, or should be, a time of innocence, and for a while that is the way it was for brothers Michael Jr. and Jeffrey Gentile. And then a pistol fell out of a coat. “We were taking the coats from people who had come over to visit our parents and this gun just dropped on the floor,” says Michael. “For us it wasn’t a matter of, ‘Oh my God, loo...
Notre Dame professors and students embody iconic 'Ribelli e Rivoluzionari' of Italy
This past Friday, the faculty and students of Notre Dame’s Department of Romance Languages and Literature came together in DeBartolo Performing Art Center’s Leighton Concert Hall to perform a wide variety of fantastic Italian music for a sold-out crowd. As part of Romance Languages International Week 2018, Professor Lesley Marcantonio’s “Intermedia...
Do This: ICC dishes up 23rd A Taste of Italy
Festa Italiana is, of course, the city's major Italian festival and it takes place each July, bringing delectable Italian cuisine to the Summerfest grounds. But each April, half a block west of the Henry Maier Festival Park, at the Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago St., A Taste of Italy draws Milwaukee in to check out the ICC and sample tast...
Missione funzionario itinerante a Cleveland
Si informa la comunità italiana residente a Cleveland nello Stato dell'Ohio e dintorni che il giorno 20 aprile 2018, sarà effettuata una missione itinerante per la SOLA rilevazione dei dati biometrici ai fini del rilascio del passaporto italiano. La missione avrà luogo presso gli Uffici del Consolato Onorario d'Italia a Cleveland, al n.1422 Euclid...