Italian restaurant feeds the masses, and then some

Jamie Oliver's Scottish restaurant reportedly had to close early one night after running out of materials.

(ARA) - All types of cuisines, from Italian to Latin to Asian, have a set of core staples that are essential to creating a distinctively authentic meal.

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Aperitif is a big-city restaurant. It just so happens this big-city restaurant — with a name no one can pronounce — is in sleepy Woodbury. You can almost hear a collective sigh of relief as diners walk into the restaurant. It seems so civilized compared with all the fast and fast-casual restaurants in the area. The 270-seat restaurant sprawls amiably between a colorful bar with leather booths ...

On opening night and Saturday, June will offer a limited food menu, but plans to open with its full menu beginning Tuesday.

          Click on the images for all the details on this week's new restaurant arrivals, which include authentic Neapolitan pizzeria at OLiO in the Village, Eddie Huang's Xiao Ye on the Lower East Side, BLT Bar and Grill down by the World Trade Center site, the raved-about Mexicue food truck, and the Limelight Grill inside the Limelight Marketplace.

Suburban Trends's readers voted with their stomachs in naming as their favorite restaurant for 2010 the Butler Outback Steak House, home of the Bloomin' Onion.

A Salt Lake City hotel is well known for its opulence. Now its bathrooms are up for a prestigious honor.

Dino Sili has taken over the restaurant formerly known as Marcello & Dino Roman Cafe, and the result is the same familiar warmth and a lower-priced menu. Stick to the satisfying classic dishes; many of the more creative options aren’t nearly as well-executed.

Understated comfort food and a range of hot and cold drinks add up to simple satisfaction Carma's Cafe is cool in more ways than one. Located a few steps below ground, the cozy space gets natural light but escapes the worst of the summer heat. The small coffee and sandwich shop also has a cool personality, doing what it does without much fuss. Sandwiches are not overstuffed, baked goods are not ...

The bathrooms at the Embassy Theatre in Fort Wayne are in the running to be named the best in the country.

Not being able to visit one of my favourite Mediterranean countries this summer, Italy, left me pining for the cuisine and gave me a great excuse to try out Incanto, a local restaurant that uses ingredients actually imported from Italy, which brought a bit of Italy to me - a rather good deal, I'd say.

The Embassy Theatre is in fourth place in the Best Restroom contest. Created in 2002, the Best Restroom award was designed to honor those businesses across America that place high value on hygiene and exceptional style in their public restrooms.

Mmm ... chicken toscana, veal tetrazine, lobster ravioli and salmon marsala. Downtown has yet another option for fine dining — Italiano style. Napoli’s Italian Restaurant is expected to open next week in the former Kirkpatrick Cafe, located at 614 Francis St. The cafe closed earlier this week to make room for the new, authentic Italian eatery.

A Web search for every cafe, a cafe for every Web search? All well and good, but what if your search is for the best goldarn double-sided dildo there is — and you're sick of that uptight suit over there eyeing your Googles? Proudly pervy surf-and-sippers, you officially have a kick-it spot.

BENTON CITY -- Your tablemates are almost always a surprise at Bella, an Italian bistro and wine bar

When Ristorante Piccola Roma closed abruptly early in 2009, Annapolis lost a reliable destination for home-style Italian cuisine with a flair right in the heart of Main Street.

It’s 2 p.m. on a Wednesday in early July. All of the tables, chairs, and stools are occupied at Rogue — a restaurant/bar located at 757 Sixth Ave. A packed house at lunchtime on a weekday is a rare phenomenon, according to general manager Vanessa Cardone.

As I was writing about Centara Grand at CentralWorld's Champagne Surf & Turf Brunch held once a month at its 55 Restaurant, I couldn't help but wonder how it would survive on a very low price and such an extraordinary huge culinary offering.