With the opening of Rosati's Sports Pub in Newville, four experienced restaurant franchise owners, including two Rosati family members, are bringing traditional Italian-style cooking to a new location. In recent years, the building at 723 E. Ellendale Road has been a number of bar and grills.   Finn's Bar and Grill closed in 2011, Doc...

Food. Family. Fireworks! Festa Italiana 2013 will be held July 19-21 on Milwaukee's lakefront! At Festa, Tutti Italiani! #FestaMKE Festa Italiana Milwaukee, WI Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 2, 2013...Festa Italiana is excited to announce this year's festival dates Friday, July 19 – Sunday, July 21, at Henry W. Maier Festival Park (Summerfest ground...

A Catholic Mass of celebration will be held in honor of Romano and Lida Lenci's 65th wedding anniversary at Holy Rosary Church on Nov. 29. Afterward, the celebration will continue with a family party at Fireside Restaurant. Although their families were acquainted with each other for several generations, Romano Lenci and the former Lida Del Fra...

Fino a dieci anni fa il mercato principale di Ducati era l'Italia. Ora, vuoi per la crisi, vuoi l'esplosione del marchio a livello mondiale, gli Stati Uniti rappresentano una delle fette più grandi del mercato globale di Borgo Panigale.   La presenza di moto bolognesi in alcuni dei più celebri film hollywoodiani hanno accelerato di molto il...

Santino's Little Italy, an Italian restaurant serving pizzas from a wood-burning oven, plans to open in two weeks at Bay View's northern edge, 352 E. Stewart St. Santo Galati said he expects it will open to the public Jan. 19 or 20; the exact date is expected next week, as is the finalized menu. Galati described the prices as moderate, startin...

Each Roma Lodge member is assigned only 8 books of raffle tickets. All members are expected to sell or buy the minimum of 8 books to help support our great Roma Lodge.   The tickets are now available for pickup in the Hall of History. The Roma Lodge Festival Committee has met and reviewed areas of contributions for this year's fest...

Some things seem to just get better and better over the years. If you ask Ann Romano about one of those things, she's likely to mention The Taste of Italy. After all, she has been planning the event for the Italian Community Center (ICC) for 19 of its 20 years. "It's always a packed house," Romano tells me. "People know that they should g...

After successful visits to the New York tri-state area this past February, and to southern California in April, two important relics of St. Anthony of Padua are returning to the United States for a nine-day tour of Illinois and Wisconsin. The event, organized by the Messenger of St. Anthony magazine directed by the Franciscan Friars of the Pontific...

by Samara Kalk Derby   Grampa's Pizzeria on Willy Street is one of Madison's best new restaurants. And now another grandfatherly spot, Nonno's — that's grandpa in Italian — could also be a contender for that title. Nonno's Ristorante Italiano, which opened Dec. 2 on Madison's West Side, might have seemed an unlikely prospect because it...

By Lori Fredrich A new Bay View restaurant, Santino's Little Italy, will officially open to the public on Friday, Jan. 20 at 352 E. Stewart St. The cozy Italian restaurant is a collaboration between owners Greg Huber, Santo Galati and Nick Anton, longtime co-owner of La Perla Mexican restaurant in Walker's Point. And it's been a long time com...