Aldo Lamberti's restaurants still a staple in South Jersey and beyond
Most food lovers in Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia are familiar with the Aldo Lamberti family of restaurants located throughout the area. Ranging from casual fare to fine dining, the establishments are diverse in size, ambiance and menu selection, yet all serve up classic and modern Italian specialties, including homemade pizza, pastas, seafo...
New Chesapeake pizzeria comes from Italy with love
The pride and joy of Biagio Scire Jr.’s new restaurant is a 6,000-pound, tiled oven imported from Naples, Italy, bearing the name Andiamo. Meaning “let’s go” in Italian, Andiamo is the realization of a dream for the 29-year-old who opened the Neopolitan-style pizzeria in the Great Bridge Marketplace on South Battlefield Boulevard in mid-March. Born...
Assaggi Osteria Opens Pizzeria In McLean
Assaggi Osteria announced Thursday it has opened a pizzeria serving Neapolitan pizza and other Italian classics. Assaggi Osteria Pizzeria is now open at 6641 Old Dominion Drive in McLean. The restaurant's Neapolitan pizza is certified by the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana. Some highlights are the traditional Margherita D.O.P with fresh tomato...
Villa Italian gives customers catering with a click
Morristown, New Jersey-based multibrand restaurant operator and franchisor, Villa Restaurant Group, has gotten into online ordering for catering at its Villa Italian Kitchen and Green Leaf's Beyond Great Salads holdings. As of last month, both brands can now take orders for groups ranging in size from 10 to more than 500 with just the tap of a key...
Neo-Neapolitan Pizzeria from Destination Dogs Team Poised to Impress
New Brunswick feels the knead. The knead….for pizza. For a city with what seems like a pizza shop on every corner, located smack dab in the middle of a state known for its pizza, New Brunswick is lacking some truly great ‘za. Of course you have college staples like PJ’s, RU Grill, and Giovanelli’s, which will always satisfy your drunken cravings, b...
Longtime Chesapeake pizzeria is moving to Virginia Beach
When Vinicio Fabbrizi arrived in Virginia from his native Italy, he could fix pipes, but whether he could fix a pizza was unknown.More than three decades later, Fabbrizi’s Andrea’s Pizzeria is one of Chesapeake’s most enduring mom and pop businesses. However, the link with Chesapeake is about to be severed as Fabbrizi, 71, and his son, Vinicio “Vin...
Posto Alum’s New Shaw Eatery San Lorenzo Is Taking Shape
Fabbri, who lives down the street, hired design firm Swatchroom to transform the brick-lined space formerly occupied by neighborhood eatery Thally (1316 Ninth St NW). He says the new look is inspired by Il Maialetto, a Michelin-endorsed restaurant in his native Tuscany where he’s had many “fabulous simple meals.” The last casual restaurant Fabbri r...
Carnevale in April helps Delaware high schoolers fulfill their dreams
Have you bought your tickets for the third annual Carnevale? At 6 p.m., Tuesday, April 10, the Rehoboth Touch of Italy becomes an Italian Street Fair with unlimited food, wine, masks, valet parking, auctions - you name it. And it's all to raise money for the Touch of Italy/RehobothFoodie.com Culinary Scholarship Fund. So why a scholarship fund? Th...
Jersey Dish: Il Vecchio Cafe
From Bloomfield Avenue in Caldwell, the grand entrance marking the boundary of the Calandra's compound is difficult to miss. Even the parking lot is generous -- drivers may jockey for the best spots, but it's a casual sport. Here, as at the mall, no one need worry about finding a space. Inside Il Vecchio Cafe, the generosity continues. The warm, fr...
Sal’s brings Neapolitan-style pizza eatery to Smithfield
Sal’s Pizza may be new to Smithfield, but it’s been around awhile. This Neapolitan-style pizza eatery originated in 1990 in New Hampshire. The magic, however, started in the 1940s on Boston’s North Shore where Sal’s grandparents sold pizzas. Today you can find Sal’s Pizza in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, California, Arizona and now, Smithfield. The...
Remembering Catalano's Lounge & Restaurant in Wormleysburg with riverfront views, Italian-American food
Catalano's Restaurant and Lounge was the place to go, long before the hustle and bustle on Harrisburg's Second Street. The Italian-American restaurant and its sister establishment, Angelina's Ristorante, operated in Wormleysburg along the Susquehanna River for three decades. (Check out the video, above, for a look back at the restaurants.) Vince an...
Muriale's Italian Kitchen continues decades of tradition
For decades, Muriale’s Italian Kitchen has been a staple of Fairmont and Marion County, and it’s still carrying on the same traditions and recipes that has made the restaurant a success for nearly 50 years. Muriale’s opened after the family bought the one-building restaurant, once known as Dick’s, in the late 1960s. With an official opening date of...