Corner Bakery Cafe and Il Fornaio today announced that restaurant industry veteran Frank Paci has been named Chief Executive Officer of both companies. Paci assumes the position previously held by Mike Hislop who will remain Chairman of the Board.   "We are excited to welcome Frank as the new leader of Corner Bakery Cafe and Il Fornaio," sai...

by Eve Hill-Agnus   Julian Barsotti's latest love letter to Italy is his most specific, fixated on a place as much as an idea, a feeling. At Carbone's, he honored his Italian-American roots. At Nonna, he ventured into the regions of Italy. Sprezza, in the emergent Maple Avenue Dining District, gives primacy to Rome.   What does it mea...

Dario Crosetto is offering donors, philanthropists, organizations and businesses the opportunity to save millions of lives and create a new 3D-CBS cancer screening market worth billions in return for their support in providing life-saving early cancer detection technology. Crosetto is the founder and president of the Crosetto Foundation for the Re...

Città: HoustonPaese: STATI UNITIPeriodo di svolgimento: 01/04/2013 - 31/12/2013Partners: Made in VicenzaDescrizione: La Italy America Chamber of Commerce of Texas (IACC), in collaborazione con Made in Vicenza, Confartigianato Vicenza e Banca Popolare di Vicenza, organizzerà una delegazione in Texas di 10/15 imprese italiane del settore arredo e cer...

by Michael GranberryValley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden in Far North Dallas is worth a visit any time of year but especially so in the fall. Its 4.5 wooded acres of an outdoor garden is a gem, a natural wonder, and the indoor gallery has always offered some of the finest art in Dallas.   Its new show trumpets Italian Alex Corno, who'...

La città di Dallas non molla la presa sull'Italia e per incrementare i flussi spera nell'arrivo a breve del volo diretto con Milano. Nel 2013 gli arrivi dal nostro Paese si sono attestati a quota 25mila, in linea con quelli dell'anno precedente: "Quello italiano rimane per noi un mercato importante.   Lo scorso anno gli arrivi non sono...

Confindustria Ceramica (the Italian Association of Ceramics) and the Italian Trade Commission have announced their official call for entries for the 2015 Ceramics of Italy Tile Competition. Now in its third decade, the annual awards program honors the work of North American architects and designers who create exceptional spaces using Italian cerami...

by Linden Wilson   Arriving at his Highland Park Village eatery Bistro 31 to sit for a portrait for this story, restaurateur Alberto Lombardi greeted me jovially with an air-kiss on each cheek and promptly asked if I'd care for an espresso. This is the type of warm, European–style hospitality Lombardi is famous for — and it is genuine, carry...

by Scott Reitz   The Highland Park location of Patrizio's, which closed earlier this year after 25 years of service, reopened quietly in Uptown earlier this month. The restaurant will host a grand opening party Thursday, and then make an attempt to create 25 years of additional memories in the space that held Private Social before it held Ba...

By Teresa GubbinsDallas restaurateur Phil Romano, whose portfolio includes gourmet grocery Eatzi's and the Trinity Groves restaurant complex in West Dallas, knows his Italian-American. He not only conceived the Romano's Macaroni Grill chain, he imported a celebrated Italian restaurant to Dallas in 2004: New York's Il Mulino.   But Il Mulino...