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Rome native owner and chef Antonio Morichini wants his Italian restaurant in Via Vai to resemble a piece of "Italy in Astoria."   The restaurant and wine bar located at 31-09 23rd Ave. has become a neighborhood favorite since it first opened in June 2014, even attracting guests from outside the city. After living abroad in Italy for several...

To walk down Ballard Ave is to notice that funny old green house. It looks like a home where Laura Ingalls Wilder and family might have hunkered down for a long prairie winter, dropped improbably in a tight-shouldered row of brick and stone storefronts otherwise pulsing with bars and boutiques.   The structure is actually two houses fitted t...

Tucked away in the back corner of a shopping center on Scottsdale Road, sits Guido's Chicago Meats and Deli — a place that also lies in the hearts and stomachs of the Chaparral High School students a few blocks away.   For 33 years, the Italian-style restaurant has curbed the hunger of its neighboring students, serving as a local hotspot for...

by Kerry-Lynne Demarinis   Opening the door into DeNicola's Italian Restaurant is like opening the door into your grandmother's kitchen.   You are welcomed with a smile, invited to sit down, surrounded by loud conversation and laughter, and there are all those wonderful Italian aromas – baking eggplant in sauce and cheese, simmering p...

Speaking of pizza, finishing touches are going on in the major overhaul of the old Kingfish Cafe on 19th Ave E in preparation for the opening of the new Ernest Loves Agnes Italian joint and bar from the Guild Seattle folks behind Lost Lake, the Comet, Grim's, and more. Finishing touches are also going on in the kitchen.   Guild Seattle has f...

Daniela Borella was born in Italy. At her two Tucson-area restaurants she serves meals prepared using recipes handed down from her grandmothers. Her mother, who for years was the cook at Borella's Caffe Torino in Oro Valley, still comes into the kitchen a couple times a week "for quality control, to make sure everything is according to he...

by Denise Valdez   Ferraro's Italian Restaurant & Wine Bar is a successful family-owned business that just celebrated three decades in Las Vegas.  On Friday, the City of Las Vegas is declaring it "Ferraro Family Day" to honor their 30 years in business. To celebrate its 30 years, the restaurant is offering full course meals for...

On Friday, Oct. 3, who should walk into Il Terrazzo Carmine, the classic Italian restaurant in Pioneer Square? It was one of American cinema's greatest actors Al Pacino, in town to visit family. Pacino was dressed in black, with his hair standing straight up. He arrived in a party of seven, choosing Carmine's because he wanted great Italian food an...

The latest in a line of wood-fired pizza places coming to Northeast Portland has opened its doors. After months of hands-on demolition, construction and build-out, owner Clark Hale opened Pizzeria Otto last Friday, bringing Neapolitan-style pies to the Roseway neighborhood.   Pizzaiolo Justin Clarke, a Brit who lived and trained in Italy bef...

Former Mayor Oscar Goodman has been hosting a series of dinner events at his namesake steakhouse at Downtown's Plaza, mostly featuring colorful stories of Vegas past served as a tasty side dish. The next such event has him particularly excited.   "When we got here in 1964 our social lives revolved around two places, and one of those was the...

It seems as if every deli and sandwich shop serves an Italian sub, but which ones are the best? Fellow Taste of the Town readers have suggestions for Hank Miller, who wrote in search of advice.   Al Wirtzbaum and Zuzana Eissler both were effusive in their praise for ParmeZan Subs at 10720 S. Eastern Ave. in Henderson.   Read more &nb...

By Eric Degerman and Andy Perdue   Italy's winemaking history goes back millennia, and today the Mediterranean country produces about a third of all the wine in the world. When Italians emigrated to the United States, they brought their winemaking prowess with them. As early as the 1850s, Italian immigrants arrived in Washington's Walla...