An opening date has arrived for the long-in-the-making CiboDivino Marketplace and Caffe, at the Sylvan Thirty complex in Oak Cliff: Monday, May 4. Owned and operated by chef Daniele and Christina Puleo, CiboDivino is an Italian eatery, market and bar featuring prepared foods, pizza, wine and coffee.   A native of Sicily, Puleo is the former...

Highland Village chef Morris Salerno basked in the limelight this year. He won a gold medal in the 2014 Expogast Culinary Competition in Luxembourg, was featured on the new reality show The Hungry Investors and has nearly completed his second cookbook.   The Expogast Culinary Competition is considered the second most prestigious competition...

by Whitney Filloon   Mi Piaci shuttered last month after two decades in Dallas, and now the Preston Center spot it vacated is poised to become another Italian restaurant called Cucina Neighborhood Italian.   Construction permits were spotted in the window yesterday, posted right up alongside the landlord's lockout notice that ousted M...

On Tuesday, September 8 the Club will be open for a special reception hosted by the Board of Directors. Elena Sgarbi, the Italian Consul General, will be in Dallas and we will hold a special reception for all of us to meet her, enjoy time with her and say Benvenuto. Along with Counselor Sgarbi will be Vincenzo Acrobelli and Mary Ann Webster, two lo...

Jimmy's Food Store, Dallas' beloved ma and pa grocer turned Italian specialty shop, is now 50 years old. Their sausage and meatballs are the best in town — having them on the menu is a good get for virtually any restaurant. These folks have a complicated understanding of what Italians want. They have deep roots in Dallas, and they have been working...

Maple Avenue is getting a trio of restaurants that includes Kansas City-style barbecue and an Italian restaurant from Nonna owner Julian Barsotti.   It's part of a $3.5 million development called the Maple Avenue Dining District that will buttress a residential development from Crow Holdings in the Oak Lawn neighborhood, including the restor...

CiboDivino Marketplace and Caffe, Daniele and Christina Puleo's Italian market-deli-bar, is finally taking shape at Sylvan Thirty (say CHEE-bo da-VEEN-o). And Daniele is promising it will be open by April 1, just in time to take advantage of spring weather on the spacious patio.   What is CiboDivino exactly? A mini-marketplace that encompass...

by Amy McCarthy   Love's flirtation with Italian food features six courses of Texas-inspired fare. Chef Tim Love has made a name for himself on the Texas culinary scene (and reality TV) with his unique approach to "urban western cuisine." Even though you're much more likely to see rattlesnake and pig face on a Tim Love menu than fancy p...

One might think that American million and billionaires were spoiled for choice, when it came to supercar offerings. Turns out, though, there's been at least one major void in the American supercar market: Pagani. Known for making some of the most stunning – and hard to pronounce – supercars in the world, Pagani prides itself not only on speed but...

by Tina Danze   Corrado Palmieri is the owner of Palmieri Cafe, an Italian coffee shop and bakery, currently at the Dallas Farmers Market's shed on weekends. Soon, Cafe Palmieri will move into the Dallas Farmers Market's new venue, the Market. The move fulfills Palmieri's dream of offering an authentic Italian coffee and pastry experien...