De Chiaro Steps into the Light
As a child, John De Chiaro often traveled with his stepfather, a shoemaker in New Jersey, into New York City to buy supplies, but on one trip, at about 5 years old, he wandered next door to a pawnshop and found an object that changed his life. "There was a guitar on the wall, and I just, for some reason, wanted that guitar," De Chiaro says. "My ste...
Homemade Italian favorites on menu at Palma Pizza
MENU: Pizza reigns at the newly opened Palma Pizza, though there are plenty of other Italian favorites on the menu as well as sandwiches and salads. Pizza options include New York-style (thin crust), Sicilian (thick crust) and Chicago (deep dish), with more than two dozen available toppings as well as specialty pizzas. Pasta choices include eggpla...
Emeril's Coastal Italian Now Open in Grand Boulevard
Emeril Lagasse's newest restaurant is now open in Grand Boulevard at Sandestin. Emeril's Coastal Italian opens daily at 11:30 a.m., seven days a week offering one menu for both lunch and dinner. The menu is Italian and Gulf seafood-inspired, serving a variety of dishes from fresh pastas, flatbread pizzas and house made meatballs to a local fish spe...
New North Chattanooga Italian-American restaurant aims to fill niche
Local restaurateurs Danny and Brittany Alcala are aiming to fill a niche with their new North Chattanooga Italian restaurant called Red Sauce. The duo said they aren’t looking to compete with other local Italian restaurants, such as Boccaccia Ristorante Italiano or Il Primo. Instead, they are looking to bring a new style to town. “This is going to...
Louie Bossi: From Salumi To Antipasti, Dry-Aged Meats To Cannoli’s, Regions Of Italian Cuisine In Boca Raton
From the expansive outdoor patio seating to the ambiance of its long-legged bar and warm toned comfortable indoor dining enclaves to the eye-appealing finest meats dry-aging in the line of sight to the tastiest Italian dishes and oh so much salumi, Louie Bossi’s is enorme. Located on the first floor of Boca Raton’s first downtown hotel, the Hyatt P...
Barbering has led Joe Rocco from Broadway’s bright lights to a cozy shop on Anastasia Boulevard
The music playing when you walk into the St. Augustine Family Barber shop on Anastasia Boulevard isn’t Muzak or from a Top 40 radio station. The tunes instead come from a record player stacked with single 45s playing jazz and other selections from the 1950s and ‘60s. The walls of the place are adorned with instruments, photographs and paintings of...
Brickell City Centre's Italian food hall to open in December
La Centrale, the Italian food hall at Brickell City Centre, will debut with 14 different dining spaces in 40,000 square feet. Media were given a preview of the downtown Miami eatery before it opens in December. La Centrale will include a café with an espresso bar, a traditional Italian bakery, mozzarella and raw fish bars, a shop with grab-and-go i...
Italy’s Best At Glassbuild America: GIMAV Group Participation In Atlanta
After participating in the 2016 edition in Las Vegas with a group of 16 companies (over an area measuring 612 m2), a key GIMAV contingent will again participate in GlassBuild America, confirming the strategic value of the US market for Italy’s glass processing machinery businesses, also validated by data from the Gimav Study Center. Exports to Nor...
Family recipes, decor greet diners at Little Italy's
Three years ago, Carl and Jessica Meyers moved to Florida from Rhode Island and began serving customers out of their mobile restaurant. Their Italian food quickly developed a following and their catering business took off. "We just could not keep up," said Jessica Meyers. The husband and wife team decided to open up a brick and mortar restaurant, a...
Italian American Club of Sebastian Hosts Annual Golf Tournament
The Italian American Club of Sebastian will be hosting their 21st Annual Golf Tournament on October 14, 2017, at the Sebastian Municipal Golf Course. The purpose is to raise funds for their Madeline Smith Scholarship Fund. The club is dedicated to community involvement and has awarded over $166,000 in scholarships for the past sixteen years to dese...
Chicago pizzeria Gino's East coming to Nashville, will replace Sole Mio
Sole Mio's closing and the planned local debut of Gino’s East would be the latest shift on Nashville's dining scene. "Food and beverage operators continue to have very strong interest in Nashville and SoBro is the bullseye for many of these operators," said Austin Benedict, a retail broker at CBRE in Nashville. "I think that Gino's would do great t...
Modern Italian restaurant planned for Hilton Head
A pair of Italian brothers raised by restaurateur parents plan to open their first venture on Hilton Head Island at Sea Turtle Market, formerly known as Pineland Station. Fiamme Italian Kitchen will be a wood-fire grill restaurant with authentic and modern Italian food on the menu, said Antonio Calderone, restaurant co-owner. “We will be serving th...