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A popular restaurant in downtown Brighton (MI) is reinventing itself with a new menu, name and look. Owners of the restaurant at 510 W. Main Street, which had been called Buon Gusto Italian, closed it for remodeling Feb. 18. When it reopens 11 a.m. Thursday it will have a slightly different name, Buon Gusto Bistro, and the decor throughout the rest...

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92% of Made in Italy high-quality products are produced in small villages, counting no more than 5.000 inhabitants. This is what emerged from a joint study by Coldiretti, the greatest collective body representing Italian farmers, and Symbola Foundation, one of the most active institutions in promoting Made in Italy, titled “Small villages and speci...

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Amore is opening in Brookhaven, Georgia at 804 Town Boulevard, and is the vision of Bruno DiFabio, 6-time World Pizza Champion / Restaurateur / Food Network Veteran. He partners with his best friend, 2-time World Pizza Champion and renowned Chef, Sean Brauser. Amore is scheduled to open in March and will be a chef-forward Italian Restaurant featuri...

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Situated at 604 E 187th street is an Arthur Avenue staple: Casa de Mozzarella. A true haven of meats and cheeses, it was opened twenty-five years ago by Sicily native Orazio Carciotto and his son Carlo. Casa is an old school spot specializing in Italian deli fare, cold cuts, olive oils, and, most notably, homemade mozzarella. The store itself is na...

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I remember as a kid that perhaps the next best thing, if not better, to pizza was a calzone. In the neighborhood, House of Pizza and Calzones on Union Street was the place to head to if you were hankering for one.  It was large, filled abundantly with ricotta cheese and mozzarella, and ham – except on Fridays in observance of “no meat” days for Cat...

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Squisito Pizza & Pasta has combined successful people, successful tools and successful locations to expand across America. In 2017 the brand reached new heights through multiple store openings, new franchisees and a partnership with Franchise Dynamics to make the expansion come to life. Squisito’s core values are what make the brand stand out. Thro...

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“From this point on, we will deal with a most important work of nature: we will tell man the foods proper to him and force him to admit that his means of living are unknown to him” (Pliny, “Natural History”, book XX, 1). This quotation is right at the beginning of the charter for Pollenzo’s University of Gastronomic Sciences, which stemmed in the 1...

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Il Mulino, the pricey Italian restaurant brand with branches from Manhattan and Roslyn to Las Vegas and South Beach, is poised to open in the Hamptons.Il Mulino announced plans to move into the former address of Osteria Salina, perched at Georgica Pond in Wainscott, a spaghetti strand from East Hampton. A spokeswoman for the restaurant said a May o...

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Jessica Sheehan grew up in her family’s restaurant, Bettelli’s Villa on Kidder Street in Wilkes-Barre Twp. She helped put cheese on pizza, made salads, washed dishes and cleared tables. At age 16, she became a waitress and worked in the kitchen. Everyone became like family in the family business, she said. “When I was a kid, we were running around...

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With two Top 5 Best of the City awards and scores of rave reviews under their belts, the folks at Italian Festivals of New Mexico (IFNM) are gearing up for another first-class NM Italian Film & Culture Festival.  In fulfillment of the nonprofit’s mission to promote Italian culture while giving back to the community, the much-anticipated annual fest...

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