Branzino Italian Ristorante in Rittenhouse is hosting a Feast of the Seven Fishes dinner on Christmas Eve, beginning at 5 p.m. The Italian-American tradition gathers friends and family together for a seafood feast.  At Branzino, guests will dine on sea bass crudo with blood orange and watermelon radish; shrimp with burrata and tomato broth; char-gr...

L’On. Francesca La Marca ha incontrato mercoledì 4 dicembre presso la Farnesina il Direttore generale per le risorse e l’innovazione del MAECI, Ambasciatore Renato Varriale, con il quale ha avuto un lungo e proficuo colloquio sulle questioni relative alla dotazione di personale nelle strutture decentrate della nostra amministrazione all’estero, con...

Philly's legendary Di Bruno Bros. began in the Italian Market back in 1939, and next month the company will open its newest venture, a beer-and-wine bottle shop, just a few storefronts down. The shop, to be opened at 930 S. 9th St., will be called Ninth Street Bottle Shop and will initially open as a "pop-up", according to Eater. The plan, accordin...

Kick off the holiday season and celebrate in style with family and friends at Altomontes’ Italian Market, 856 N. Easton Road, Doylestown PA on Saturday, December 7th from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. An all-inclusive epicurean evening where you can eat, drink and be merry! The special event will feature tantalizing food stations, live music, glamorous cars, Fe...

The American Association of University Women’s Murrysville chapter will host Italian singer Marco Fiorante at its Dec. 12 meeting for a special holiday program. Born in Cellino San Marco in Italy’s Puglia region, Fiorante completed his musical study in “canto lirico” (“opera performance”) at the Conservatorio Tito Schipa in Lecce, Italy. He has per...

L’imprenditore italo-americano (e deputato di Forza Italia) Amato Berardi diventa Ambasciatore del Molise nel mondo. L’onorificenza gli verrà consegnata venerdì 6 dicembre alle ore 17,30 nell’Aula Magna del Convitto Mario Pagano di Campobasso. A comunicarlo è lo stesso presidente del Consiglio regionale. La cerimonia si svolgerà nel giorno dell’imm...

Philly has a lot of pizzerias. It’s not something the city is known for — tomato pie is a whole different beast — but anyone who lives here can speak to the idea. “I literally have a pizza shop on my block, and there’s many others.” said Carolyn Wyman, a nationally-recognized food historian with seven books to her name. “I live in South Philly and...

If you arrive at the modernized row home on Rosewood Street in South Philly on a Wednesday night, you’ll notice a bright citrusy perfume in the air before you get to the front door. Inside, the family is gathered around the kitchen table, using hand-held peelers to shave the yellow zest from a crate of lemons. The natural zest is the crucial ingred...

In Nick and Kayla Amoroso’s La Padella, Media has yet another casual, welcoming neighborhood restaurant and bar. In the kitchen, this husband-and-wife duo excels at Italian-American classics modernized and retooled for today’s sensibilities. Nowhere are the twists more evident than in chef Jim Stigale’s escarole soup, its one giant meatball (rather...

Lawrenceville’s newest restaurant is (nearly) ready. Located at 4325 Butler Street, Bar Botanico will officially open its doors on December 1. After working in an Italian restaurant in San Francisco, Kelsie Sinagra returned home to Pittsburgh with her husband, Jeff. Together, they spent about two years preparing to launch Bar Botanico – which is It...