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One thing's for sure – Razzo, which opened on Oct. 18, is a great-looking restaurant. Cherry wainscoting recalls classic Brooklyn red sauce joints. Framed Cinzano ads and Italian travel prints decorate the walls and, most strikingly, a sleek neon red sign announces the name of the restaurant (Razzo is the Italian word for rocket) above the bar. All...

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If traveling to Italy isn’t part of your summer plans, you can stay in the region and enjoy an authentic experience at a new cafè on the east side of Cincinnati. VV The Italian Experience is a family business years in the making, and a new way to try authentic old-world fare. Co-owner, Melissa De Giorgi, said their location in Mount Lookout on Delt...

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If traveling to Italy isn't part of your summer plans, you can stay right here in Cincinnati and enjoy an authentic experience at a new cafè on the East Side. VV The Italian Experience is a family business years in the making, and a new way to try authentic old-world fare. Co-owner, Melissa De Giorgi, said their location in Mount Lookout on Delta A...

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A new café and shop, VV The Italian Experience, opened in April on Mt. Lookout Square, promising to dish up an authentic Italian experience in the Queen City. Owners and husband-and-wife team Melissa and Andrea De Giorgi moved from Italy to Cincinnati eight years ago and always knew they wanted to honor their homeland in their new country.  "As Ita...

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Piada Italian Street Food opened its fifth location in Greater Cincinnati on Monday. The Columbus-based, fast-casual restaurant chain opened at 6176 Glenway Ave. in Westwood with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday morning. According to a press release, 50% of opening day sales will benefit Oak Hills High School. The Westwood restaurant now joins Piad...

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The disappearance of an important Cincinnati sculpture remains a mystery. Work is underway halfway around the world to replace it. Artists in Italy are making a new Capitoline Wolf statue. Last June, someone stole it from Eden Park. The white stone pedestal sits empty in Eden Park. On top once sat a gift from Rome in 1931, a mother wolf nursing the...

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Rocco Castellano came back to the Cincinnati area in 2022 after 14 years out West, building his brand and his business to help others get relief from pain. “I thought it would be a good place to come back to because I still know many people here,” said the New Jersey native. “I consider Cincinnati more my home than New Jersey or New York. It’s give...

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This Sunday, as it has most every Palm Sunday during the past century or so, Sacred Heart Church's meatball and ravioli-themed Original Italian Dinner will take place in Camp Washington. And like last year, the event, which dates back to 1911 and serves as a fundraiser for the church, will be carryout only. The biannual dinner, which is also offere...

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In 1931, the Order of the Sons of Italy’s Cincinnatus Lodge received the gift of a lifetime: an exact replica of the Capitoline Wolf Statue in Rome. Two years earlier, when preparing for the 1931 Bicentennial Ohio State Convention, they had heard of a copy being made for Rome, Georgia. Boasting the name of a prominent Roman general, they thought Ci...

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Cincinnati pizza icon Donald "Buddy" LaRosa was honored by the Ohio Restaurant Association on Tuesday and inducted into the organization's hall of fame. LaRosa opened LaRosa's Pizzeria in the West Side in 1954. Since then, the pizza chain has grown to include more than 65 locations in Southwestern and Central Ohio and Northern Kentucky. As of 2014,...

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