A new Italian restaurant called Est! Est!! Est!!! opened its doors in Dayton on Wednesday. The eatery is located at the Dayton Arcade on 45 W Fourth Street. While the owners are from North Carolina, they said they are happy to call Dayton home. They said people can come to the restaurant to get a taste they might not be able to experience anywhere...

The Columbus Historical Society is excited to announce the opening of our new exhibit: The Art of Edoardo Alfieri as Generously Donated by the Alfieri-Maisano Archive, Genoa: Celebrating the Special Connection between Columbus and Genoa, Italy. Opening on April 23, this exhibit will feature fifty-nine pieces by Edoardo Alfieri including nineteen or...

f you're not from Ohio, especially the Columbus area, you're probably wondering what Johnny Marzetti is. To put it succinctly, it's ground beef, cheese, pasta, and tomatoes baked into a casserole. Moreover, as Eric Lyttle noted while writing for Columbus Monthly, "If you're from Wisconsin or Minnesota or the like, you might know it as goulash. If y...

Troni Brothers Italian Restaurant has opened its doors at 417 W. Second St. in Xenia. Customers can expect “truly authentic Italian food” featuring homemade meatballs and lasagna as well as homemade marinara, pizza sauce and dough, said co-owner Dave Keen. Everything is made fresh daily. The full-service restaurant opened on Friday, July 14 and Kee...

Preparations are well underway for a historic festival in downtown Youngstown, OH. The 23rd annual Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Festival kicks off Thursday and will feature many vendors, great Italian food and entertainment every day. You’ll enjoy all of the things at the festival you’re used to, but this year, they’ve added some new things...

Comedian Anthony Rodia will come to Stambaugh Auditorium on Sept. 15. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show range from $69 to $49 (plus applicable fees) and will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, March 31, at the box office and at stambaughauditorium.com. A limited number of VIP packages are also available. A first-generation Italian American raised in Westch...

Guido’s -- a casual, family-run Italian restaurant in Ravenna -- serves the best lasagna in Northeast Ohio, according to voters in cleveland.com’s Best Lasagna contest. The Portage County restaurant received slightly more than 37 percent of the nearly 6,000 votes cast. Stancato’s on State Road in Parma placed second with 31.33 percent of the vote. ...

When: Sunday, September 3 · 6 - 7:30pm EDT - Where: Italian Cultural Garden 990 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44108 United States Featuring well known music from Italian opera, Broadway musicals with the the Cleveland Opera & Cleveland Ballet in the beautiful Renaissance garden. Reserved Chair Seating Section ($29.50) in front of the stage. Family f...

Edoardo Alfieri (1913-1998) remains one of Italy's most renowned modern sculptors with architectural-scale works carved in marble and cast in bronze installed throughout Italy. Alfieri is best known in Columbus as the creator of the 1955 Christopher Columbus statue that stood at Columbus City Hall. This statue was presented as a gift from Genoa to...

Rinaldo and Elena DiSalvo opened Mamma DiSalvo’s Italian Ristorante and began serving  on June 8, 1979 with assistance from Elena parents Pasquale and Bambina Bernardo (Now, that’s Italian!) began serving mamma’s secret family recipes from the Abruzzi-Molise Region – one of ITALY’S Best Kept secrets. It is our passion to provide your family with th...