The 5 best Italian spots in Milwaukee
Looking for a tasty Italian meal near you? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top Italian spots around Milwaukee, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of the best spots to venture next time you're on the hunt. Mangia! 1. Glorioso's Italian Market. Topping the list is Glorioso's Italian Market. Located at 101...
Two Delectable Holiday Confections
With Christmas approaching, I look back fondly and with much nostalgia at the time I spent in my Nonna’skitchen, watching the preparation of my favorite holiday treats: a chocolate-spice cookie, sometimes called, tatù; and the reigning queen of all holiday cookies, the cuccidati, a fig-filled sweet. I’m not sure whether I was more enchanted by the...
Table Talk: Monte Carlo brings flavors of Italy to Powell
An Italian tradition that started nearly 40 years ago has made its way to Powell. Monte Carlo Italian Kitchen, the second in central Ohio, has opened in the former Old Bag of Nails Pub at 345 W. Olentangy St. “We just thought it was a good area,” said Kellie Ison, who owns the two Monte Carlo restaurants with her husband, Dan. “It was just a small...
Italian Eatery San Morello Sets the Date for Debut Inside the Shinola Hotel
Hotly anticipated new Italian restaurant San Morello is preparing to debut on Tuesday, December 18 at the corner of Woodward Avenue and Grand River in Detroit. The restaurant is the first spot from New York-based hitmakers NoHo Hospitality Group in Detroit and anchor to the soon-to-open Shinola Hotel. NoHo Hospitality’s team includes James Beard Aw...
Indy-based Delco Foods plans expansion into Whitestown, 132 jobs
Indianapolis-based Delco Foods of Indiana is making plans to open a cheese-processing, printing and warehouse facility in Whitestown that will have more than 130 employees. The Italian and specialty foods distributor plans to spend more than $5 million to equip a new, 150,000-square-foot building it will lease at the intersection of Perry Worth Roa...
Rosati’s Pizza set for January opening in Carmel
Rosati’s Pizza, an Illinois-based chain specializing in Chicago-style pizza, is coming to Carmel in early 2019. Franchise owner Jim Duda, of Carol Stream, Ill., attended Purdue University before opening his first restaurant, Millie’s Pancake Shoppe, in Addison, Ill. According to Duda, who often visits friends and family in Hamilton County, Carmel i...
Portillo's named best 'fast casual' restaurant in the nation by TripAdvisor
TripAdvisor named Portillo's the nation's best fast casual restaurant in its annual restaurant rankings, while three other Chicago eateries earned high marks in different categories. Portillo's hot dogs, Italian beef and chocolate cake overtook fast casual juggernauts like Shake Shack, Five Guys and Blaze Pizza. The Purple Pig, Alinea and Bavette's...
Family keeps Del Rio going for 95 years
Del Rio, a near-century-old Highwood dining tradition, was originally inspired by Dolores Del Rio, the dazzlingly beautiful Mexican actress who became Latin America’s first crossover Hollywood star in the 1920s. During that era, when Latin was all the rage, Del Rio, in Highwood, was a dance hall. After a couple of months, the owner sold it to an It...
Italian-American restaurateur is a Milwaukee sufganiyot source
Ferrante’s Restaurant & Signature Catering in Mequon has delighted taste buds and filled stomachs for over four decades. Many of its dishes are original family recipes from Rome that have remained unchanged. Like some Italian-American restaurants, Ferrante’s—as its name suggests—offers catering. But unlike other Italian-American restaurants, Ferran...
Elegant restaurant caters to those in their 30s and 40s
The new Per Bacco has gleaming mahogany and stone walls. It has a wood-fired pizza oven visible behind the new bar. And it will have the same delicious food. Bruno and Marisa Cataldo have making and serving pizzas in their own restaurants on Elkhart’s west side since 2000. On Dec. 11, 2010, they opened Per Bacco, a sit-down Italian restaurant at 28...
Nonna's Balances Classic Italian and Chicago-Style Street Fare
With an open kitchen, a beautiful bar displaying colorful bottles of wine and spirits, exposed brick throughout the restaurant and water served in wine goblets, the impression when walking into the dining room at Nonna’s Italian Bistro is that you’re in for a first-class dining experience (with a food tab to match). While the eatery does offer such...
Portillo’s and the Chicago Bulls Collaborate On a New Post-Game Deal
Today, Portillo’s proudly announces a new partnership with the six-time World Champion Chicago Bulls. The Chicago icons are collaborating on a new post-game promotion called Fourth Quarter Franks, which awards home game attendees with a complimentary hot dog if the opposing team misses two consecutive free throws in the Fourth Quarter. Bulls ticket...