FarmBar owners open Italian restaurant downtown
Lisa Becklund and Linda Ford, creators of the James Beard Award semifinalist Living Kitchen Farm & Dairy in Depew, and its urban outpost, FarmBar, will bring their interpretation of authentic Italian cuisine with Il Seme, 15 W. Fifth St., in the space the formerly housed Lassalle's New Orleans Deli. The restaurant will begin accepting reservatio...
Rizzuto's Ristorante & Chop House serves steaks and Italian classics in Gretna
Jack and Phil Rizzuto opened a pizza joint on the West Bank, but what their customers clamored for was beef. They opened Rizzuto’s Pizzeria on a busy stretch of Belle Chasse Highway near Terry Parkway last spring. Although Hurricane Ida was the catalyst for the shift from pizza to Rizzuto's Ristorante & Chop House in Gretna, the real reason for the...
Austin Truck Patrizi’s Expands With a New Italian Restaurant
Essential Austin Italian food truck Patrizi’s is expanding with a new physical restaurant this May. The second Patrizi’s will be found in the Austin Lake Hills neighborhood at 1705 Cuernavaca Drive North starting tentatively on Thursday, May 12. The new counter-service restaurant will add breakfast and lunch items — a first for Patrizi’s. Mornings...
Brookside fixture: New Mondo’s makes room for more authentic Italian family dinners.
It’s a rare thing for a more than 50-year-old restaurant to be a hot spot. But the opening of a new location for Mondo’s has brought with it buzz about the new building in Brookside along with nostalgia about meals eaten and occasions celebrated over the years. Walking into Mondo’s is like walking into a part of the Aloisio family home. It’s always...
Juliet Italian Kitchen aims to duplicate romantic, neighborly atmosphere with Arboretum location
With 265 made-from-scratch menu items, Juliet Italian Kitchen strives to separate itself from other big-name Italian restaurants in Austin, Chief Operations Officer Bryan Cromwell said. Juliet opened its first location, on Barton Springs Road, in 2015. Because the restaurant saw continued business during the first wave of the pandemic, when the cha...
New upscale Italian restaurant from chef Michael Gulotta coming to Old Metairie
With his Sicilian heritage and fine dining chops, people frequently ask Michael Gulotta if he’ll ever open an Italian restaurant. Finally, his answer is yes. The New Orleans-based chef is developing a new Italian restaurant in Old Metairie. It’s called TANA, and it will be an upscale showcase for traditional regional Italian cooking. TANA is slated...
M’tucci’s bringing Roman concept to Nob Hill
The long-dormant Kellys Brew Pub in Nob Hill will soon be showing signs of life with M’tucci’s readying to open their new location in the former brewery this month. “It’s gonna be full of life and energy and that was really our goal from the beginning was just to really bring something here that could be transformative for this area and build on wh...
New Italian Pearl restaurant Allora shoulders the weight of expectation in San Antonio
There’s this thing that chef Robbie Nowlin does on his @chef_driven Instagram feed. In frame after frame, he’s hoisting up people in his arms in front of the kitchen pass at Allora, the new Italian restaurant at the Pearl where he’s the executive chef. In one, it’s chef Jason Dady, for whom Nowlin worked at The Lodge in San Antonio. In another, it’...
OPINION | BOTTLE SHOTS: Sicilian wines shine with unique, native grapes
As our grand tour of Italian wine nears its final lap, it's time for a stop in one of the country's most exciting wine regions: the volcanic island of Sicily. The largest island in the Mediterranean, its wine history dates back more than 6,000 years and survived the island's conquest by the Greeks, Phoenicians, Arabs and Italians. Despite being sur...
First Look: Fiatto Is a New Italian-American Destination in Dallas’ West Village
After being dark since Eureka! shuttered in 2020 because of COVID, the corner of McKinney Avenue and Blackburn Street is officially alive and well again. Fiatto is a new casual Italian-American restaurant with seasonally inspired dishes. Executive chef Kylil Henson's background includes Flora Street Café, French Laundry (Yountville, California), DB...
Russo’s New York Pizzeria to open second North Texas location in Frisco
Houston-based Russo’s New York Pizzeria is coming to Frisco. A franchise location of the fast-casual pizza joint will join the action near Main Street Village at 3400 Main St. later this year, according to a release. The Frisco store will be operated by Justin and Rasmee Arden. Russo’s locations are small and offer limited dining. The Frisco locati...
Tony's Italian Delicatessen earns loyalty from Spring-area residents
One sandwich is all it took for Lori Hutchison to know she wanted to be more than a patron of Tony’s Italian Delicatessen. Three years later, her dream of owning the local deli came true. “A friend of mine brought me a sandwich, and I was floored by it and said, ‘Where did you get this?’” Hutchison said.Tony’s serves hot and cold sandwiches—dubbed...