Portillo's Announces New Avon Location Opening Fall 2018
Portillo's, the fast casual concept restaurant known for its highly-praised menu of Chicago-style favorites has announced a new location in Avon at 10444 E. U.S. Hwy. 36, set to open this fall. Portillo's says the Avon location follows spots in Merrillville, Fishers, and Mishawaka, with an Indianapolis restaurant set to open later this summer. "Tho...
Exclusive wines and specialty food at Acqua in Vino
Do you like wine? How about exclusive wines paired with your favorite pastas, meats, cheeses and more?! Well we have the perfect place for you! This week, we took a trip to Acqua in Vino, the specialty food and wine store homed in Wayland, just a short trip South of Grand Rapids. With a beautiful tour and a delicious food and wine tasting, Acqua in...
DiMario Foods: The Small Family Disrupting A Big Market
DiMario Foods is a brand as unprecedented as their product offerings, which include pork and chicken snack sticks—two previously unlikely options in the meat snack industry. Their unique flavors are inspired by the family’s traditional Italian recipes. “Our recipes derive from our family’s traditions, which have been a century in the making”—someth...
Italian eats: Chicago's 6 best spots for budget-friendly fare
Craving Italian food? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the best affordable Italian restaurants around Chicago, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of where to fill the bill. The Art Of Pizza; Dimo's Pizza; Conte Di Savoia; Ricobene's; Tony's Italian Deli & Subs; Bongiorno's Italian Deli & Pizzeria
List says state's best Italian place is in Wichita (and it's not the one you think)
As experts on Italian food goes, I'd rank people living and working in New York City right up there. So a recent list published on the New York Daily News website, purporting to contain the name of the best Italian restaurant in each of the 50 states, caught my attention. The list, which was posted earlier this year, is presented as a mouthwatering...
Celebrate Lidia Bastianich at Eataly Chicago
Emmy Award-winning chef, cookbook author, restaurateur, and more — Eataly partner and chef Lidia Bastianich gives us plenty of reasons to celebrate. Enter: Lidia Day! On Saturday, April 21, Eataly Chicago is dedicating a full day of activities to the beloved chef, from a cooking class to a book signing. “Food, you know, tells us who we are, where w...
It's about family at Vivere Italian Restaurant in Oak Creek — and, of course, a chef who sings to his soup
It’s all in the family at Vivere Italian Restaurant, a family-run business in Oak Creek, where employees feel like relatives and customers are treated like they are. And it's also a place where the chef sings to his soup. Yes, you— read that right. He sings to it. It's kind of a love song. (More on that in a bit.) Vivere owner Tony Rusidovski grew...
Uccello's to replace Mazzo in downtown Grand Rapids location
Modern Italian restaurant Mazzo Cucina D'Italia has closed less than a year after debuting in downtown Grand Rapids. The eatery, at 122 Monroe Center NW, closed April 7. Uccello's Hospitality Group, which owns the prime downtown real estate, plans to bring in its popular Uccello's Ristorante brand, which has several locations in West Michigan and a...
Fratello's Deli grows with third restaurant in Tinley Park
When it came time to open a third location of their Italian deli, co-owners Marco Caso and his brother-in-law Adriano Martino turned to their hometown of Tinley Park. With the opening of Fratello's Deli near Harlem Avenue and 183rd Street, Convention Plaza is fully occupied. "We were not afraid of competition," Caso said. "We like to be around othe...
Expert on Italian food corrects some misconceptions
Olive oil isn’t usually served for sipping at a dinner. The meals Wednesday and Thursday at Antonio’s Italian Ristorante included small shots of silky oil. Mario Rizzotti, an expert on Italian food who has been an “Iron Chef America” judge on Food Network, urged those at the meals to swirl the liquid in the cup and warm it before slurping it. They...
Carloni's has new digs on Berea's West Bagley Road: Around The Town
There hasn't been a sit-down Italian eatery in Berea since Bucci's landmark town center restaurant closed its doors in December 2013. That will change Monday, when John and Jennifer Mankiewicz host a grand opening at JoJo Carloni's Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria, 627 W. Bagley Road, at Helwig's Whistle Stop. "We're going to have a little slice of...
Fire-burned Milano’s opts to reopen in Mt. Gilead
One of Stanly County’s more popular restaurants damaged in a fire will not be reopening in Norwood. Milano’s Italian-American Restaurant will be reopening in Mt. Gilead, instead of downtown Norwood. Plans are underway for Milano’s to reopen in the former The Ford Place Restaurant, originally a car dealership. “There are more opportunities at The Fo...