Restaurant review: Trattoria Sbandati
Spaghetti and meatballs are not Italian food. Ask Juri Sbandati. At Trattoria Sbandati on Bend's west side, you also won't find fettucine Alfredo, chicken Parmigiana or veal Marsala on the carefully considered menu. This is not, after all, a dimly lit Italian café with red-checkered tablecloths and candles fashioned from Chianti bottl...
The new version of Annie's Gourmet Italian Bistro is even more comfortable
Every neighborhood needs a cozy Italian restaurant to call its own, and Green Valley has a handful of favorite haunts where the regulars are loyal and the food is hearty. Annie's Gourmet Italian Bistro, which reopened earlier this year after moving from its location of five years on Horizon Ridge Parkway to a higher-profile retail center just off t...
Astoria’s Via Vai brings back traditional Italian lunch. Yes, including handmade pasta
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...
Coming to Ballard Ave: An Italian Restaurant with a Past
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...
Guido’s maintains long history with Chaparral High School
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...
DeNicola’s Italian Restaurant: Serving Family Recipes Since 1978
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...
In preparation for opening (soon), Ernest Loves Agnes brings in NYC pizza expert
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...
Chef de Tucson: Daniela Borella, Caffe Torino
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...
Ferraro's family restaurant celebrates 30 years in Las Vegas
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...
Al Pacino walks into Il Terrazzo Carmine in Pioneer Square: The classic Italian eatery marks 30 years this month
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...
Pizzeria Otto in Northeast Portland Now Open
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...
Venetian restaurant and pork neckbones celebrated at Oscar's
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...