Italian is one of America’s favorite food categories. In this month when so many celebrations and family gatherings are centered around classic American comfort food favorites, this might be the right time to go Italian and mix things up a bit. And this is absolutely the right place to do it. A fantastic Italian restaurant has long been a crucial c...

From San Francisco to Las Vegas to intercept new business opportunities in the American market. This year, the Specialty Food Association has chosen to organize the Winter Fancy Food in Las Vegas from February 6-8, 2022. Why Las Vegas? “There are many reasons for this change of location, first of all, the costs that companies will incur to particip...

Add Cake Boss Buddy Valastro to the list of celebrities opening a new restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip in 2022. The star of the TLC series Cake Boss gets ready to open the Boss Café by Buddy Valastro at the Linq in early 2022. Valastro, who already has Buddy V’s Ristorante and Carlo’s Bakery at the Venetian and PizzaCake at Harrah’s, goes casual w...

If the Vegas entertainment scene is a sauce, Giada Valenti is the seasoning. Spicy in her performances and her lively disposition, the Italian songstress has stirred things up in Las Vegas with her multilingual recordings, appearances at The Smith Center, and her Facebook Live cooking-and-singing series. She just dropped a new holiday song, “Silent...

Dolce & Chianti Cucina and Cocktails, located at 4275 South Durango Drive, is introducing a new brunch menu with an Italian twist. The brunch menu will debut at a launch event on Saturday, December 4 from 11 am to 3 pm. Every guest that attends this event will be greeted with a complimentary glass of bubbles from the champagne wall, along with bott...

One of the most colorful restaurants in Las Vegas, Superfrico, recently opened at The Cosmopolitan, and it’s a super-fun, very unique venue. It’s divided into several areas, each with a different vibe, but all sort of going together. “With Superfrico, we’ve truly upped the ante in our quest to deliver the unexpected in Vegas,” said Ross Mollison, S...

Maneskin 'hit' Las Vegas with a half-hour performance at the opening of the Rolling Stones' concert that drew enthusiastic applause from the fans of the 'rolling stones'. Dressed in stars and stripes, Damiano, Victoria, Ethan and Thomas have received the enthusiasm of the packed Allegiant Stadium with their workhorse songs, from 'Zitti e Buoni' to...

Fifth Avenue Restaurant Group will celebrate the grand opening of Bonanno's New York Pizza Kitchen at a new location. As part of the grand opening celebration, Bonanno's will be offering $500 gift cards or the first 100 guests, $1 pizza slices (limit one slice per person), half off whole pies all day (limit two per order), and a live radio broadcas...

A new Italian sandwich shop landed on the casino floor of Ellis Island earlier this week. Via Focaccia, whose sandwiches comprise Italian ingredients encased between slabs of the light and airy bread, comes from Sicilian chef Ismaele Romano, who holds the title of World Sandwich Champion at the 2021 International Pizza Expo. Via Focaccia opened Oct...

Before visiting Las Vegas for the first time—to see Lady Gaga’s “Jazz & Piano” residency, which has returned, post COVID-19 shut-down, to Dolby Live at the Park MGM—I thought of the city as a place powered by big corp hucksterism, cash burn and drunkenness, fish-hooking those prone to chasing long shot fantasies. In pop culture, Vegas’s scamminess...