Imagine for a moment that you are one of those well-heeled, Italian-American movie or TV characters -- you know the ones: dressed to the nines, with questionable business associates and a connoisseur's appreciation of linguine with clams.

The giant Italian food hall, a culinary extravaganza, is set to open in a month or so on West 23rd Street.

Italian restaurant feeds the masses, and then some

SOUTHINGTON — For several hours on Saturday, Center Street, blocked off to vehicular traffic and lined with vendors, became Southington’s Mulberry Street.

Thousands of fans will descend on Bourbonnais and Kankakee over the next few weeks to watch as the Bears begin training camp.

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

The following are shortened versions of recent full-length restaurant reviews. The date the original review ran and its overall rating is in parentheses.

          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.

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 ...

Times were looking tough when first Whole Hog Cafe and then longtime tenant Jarrett's restaurant closed at the Yorkshire Square Shopping Plaza. But in February, Whole Hog reopened, and then Thyme Bistro opened in the old Jarrett's space in May. A revival? So it seems inside the bustling bistro. Rick Saviori, formerly with Ciao Bella, has put together a menu that has Italian touches but offers a ...

Worcester Restaurant Week, which is actually a two-week celebration, is the perfect time to check out a new place to eat, especially the ones that you thought might be a little out of your price range.

Geo's Italian Restaurant in Cape Coral will be reopening at 11 a.m. Saturday.

New York import brings Italian food to Thompson Toronto hotel, and other local restaurant news.

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 ...

HILLSDALE Chef opens cafe inspired by Italy Kurt Spak, a chef and owner of popular Alba Osteria & Enoteca, is combining history and Italian-style coffees, quiches and panini at his newly opened Caffe Autogrill two doors down at 6446 S.W. Capitol Highway.

For an evening of Italian food and fine wine that helps support a good cause, join members of the Victoria Adult Literacy Council from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Carino's Italian.

If you live in Wichita, you don't have to get out of town to have a unique and delicious dining experience.

By Lorri Helfand, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, July 27, 2010 Samira Haidar peeks into the window of Bellini Restaurant Tuesday. It closed on July 12. DUNEDIN — Great Italian food, fine wine, warm hospitality. That's what patrons of Bellini Restaurant came to expect until the restaurant abruptly closed two weeks ago. David Roy, who owns Meranova Guest Inn across the way, said people in the ...

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.

For Matteo and Emily Di Rosa, the sustained profitability of Matteo's Ristorante Italiano is even sweeter in light of the errors of naivete made at the start.