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When Ferraro’s Italian Restaurant & Wine Bar announced it was reopening after a two-month shutdown, the phones rang off the hook with people who wanted a reservation. The restaurant’s popular Taste and Learn series, where diners get a four-course dinner paired with five wines sold out. Gino Ferraro, the patriarch of the family and owner of the rest...

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’Nduja is a spreadable spicy cured pork salami from Calabria that gives an incredible kick of flavor – straight from the toe of Italy – to pizza and pasta. But few know that the real ’nduja come specifically from Spilinga, a town in Calabria with a population of less than 2,000. Every family raises and slaughters at least one pig, even the barber. ...

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After taking about 2 1/2 years to select a location and design a concept, Santiago Pelaez opened Zanti Cucina Italiana to bring authentic Italian cuisine to The Woodlands area in June 2019 on Research Forest Drive. Pelaez said he had a tie to The Woodlands area after visiting with his family from Mexico since he was a child. “We decided to do an up...

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For over 35 years, the names Tony and Cathy Mantuano have been synonymous with the best of Italian cuisine in the US. In 1984, the couple helped open Chicago’s Spiaggia—he as chef, she in the front-of-house and wine departments—then went on to helm the restaurant as it garnered Michelin stars, James Beard awards and famous fans like Barack Obama. C...

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Every time that Flora Fine Foods CEO John Flora returns to his native Italy, he finds new ideas to bring home to South Florida. Like Taralli, a crunchy olive-oily wheat biscuit. “It’s the most popular snack in all of southern Italy,” says the 68-year-old Parkland resident and company founder. Flora Fine Foods was the first company to market t...

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A Pop's Italian Beef & Sausage will be opening several months from now at the vacant Boston Market fast-food restaurant that went out of business last April, Joliet Patch has learned. On Friday afternoon, Joliet Pop's franchise owner Joe Haberkorn had great things to say about the City of Champions. He said he plans to become a strong community pa...

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From New York to Los Angeles, from Chicago to Toronto, all the sweetness of the authentic Italian confectionery tradition can now be tasted within the world greatest Italian food hall. “We are proud to be hosted in Eataly stores all over the States, from New York to Los Angeles, from Chicago to Toronto”. This is what Christian Saldi, Director at It...

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When I was  a teenager dreaming to travel to the US,  I admit Buffalo wasn’t on my list: admittedly, my knowledge of America was limited to what I saw on TV — Texas, California, New York City — and to the Pacific North-West, as you would expect from any Gen-X  kid who grew up on a diet of bread-and-grunge. Things changed once I left Italy, moved to...

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One of New York City’s most beloved Italian restaurants is taking a quick trip to the Jersey Shore. Patsy’s Italian Restaurant, a Theater District staple since 1944, will launch a pop-up at Asbury Park’s historic Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel starting Feb. 5, the restaurant announced on Facebook. Reservations for the pop-up can be made on Resy.com or b...

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Pizza has returned to Coeur d'Alene's Riverstone complex in an unintended pandemic expansion. Vicino, which means "nearby" in Italian, is the sister restaurant to Vine & Olive, also in Riverstone. Vine & Olive's dining room was closed due to Idaho's stay-home order, says owner Naomi Boutz, who opened the restaurant in January 2018. "I was beyond me...

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