Italian Food and Cooking

5 Essential Italian Restaurants in Los Angeles

Our 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants issue came out last week, and we're highlighting a few categories drawing from the list. Today: Italian restaurants. This isn't every single Italian or Italian-influenced spot on the list, so make sure you check out the whole thing, but here are five of our favorit ... More >>

Now Open: RivaBella in West Hollywoood, From Chef Gino Angelini

RivaBella, a collaboration between Gino Angelini and Innovative Dining Group, opens its doors today for dinner in West Hollywood in the former Hamburger Hamlet location on Sunset. Angelini is the chef behind the celebrated and fairly intimate Italian restaurant Angelini Osteria, and Innovative Dinin ... More >>

5 Best New Gift-Worthy Cookbooks

The beauty of cookbooks: there is truly something for everyone. Whether you've got a boss who has a thing for handmade pasta, a friend who thinks they're Gordon Ramsay (but doesn't own a pepper mill), or a cousin who's obsessed with every Michelin-starred chef, you can find a cookbook to suit their ... More >>

Salumi Night at Mozza's Scuola di Pizza

Mozza's Scuolo di Pizza dazzles thanks to chef Chad Colby -- and his salumi bar

The Italian Job

Pasadena’s Trattoria Neapolis aims for the fences, but the food doesn’t live up to the setting

Win Free Gelato for a Year at Al Gelato: Or, Stuff to do in L.A. When it's 100 Degrees

There are many things you might do when it gets REALLY HOT in this town. Make granita with tangerines stolen at midnight from your neighbor's tree. Crank the AC and get trashed on homebrew while you watch YouTube clips of new Laker point guard Steve Nash. Or do something slightly more productive and ... More >>

Cookbook of the Week: Made in Sicily Giorgio Locatelli's Limoncello Gelato Recipe

It's hard to flip through Made in Sicily without thinking of it as an island-specific version of Bocca, one of our favorite books last year. And not simply due to the style of the recipes and book layout. Like Bocca, this is the work of a top London chef dishing up his tribute to his family's class ... More >>

Bulgarini Gelato in Culver City Now Open Free Gelato

Leo Bulgarini's new gelato outpost in Culver City -- Bulgarini took over the lease at Teaforest Tea & Coffee Bar on Washington Blvd. last month -- officially opened last week. This despite the fact that the gelato maker's gelateria in Altadena lost power in the violent windstorm that battered much o ... More >>

Bulgarini Gelato Update: A New Outpost in Culver City

Fans of Bulgarini Gelato know the drill: head to Pasadena from wherever else you are, climb up Lake Avenue to Altadena, traveling up practically into the Mt. Wilson clouds, and then turn off into the vast concrete landscape of a Rite Aid parking lot. There, at the end of a long patio, you'll find Le ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Temecula Wine Harvest, Vegan Cupcake Contest, LA Loves Alex's Lemonade, Creative Seeds, Marc Vetri Dinner

Guzzle & NoshTemecula wine country.​Temecula Wine Harvest Celebration Visit more than 30 Temecula Valley wineries (yes, some of them make very good wine: Hart, Doffo and Renzoni, to name a few) during this two-day annual harvest celebration and barrel tasting. WHERE: Temecula Valley WHEN: Nov ... More >>

Why Is It So Hard to Find a Decent Risotto?

​ Dear Mr. Gold: Where can I have a good risotto? Half of the time I've had it in L.A., it has been sticky and overcooked. --Lorenzo Rossi, via Facebook

307 Restaurants Participate in dineLA Fall 2011 Restaurant Week

Anne FishbeinSpicy chicken pops at Lukshon.​Ever wanted to try the Lukshon's squid stuffed with fermented ground pork or spaghetti at Scarpetta but can't afford it? dineLA, which returns for 12 days in early October, might be your chance. The restaurant promo returns October 2-7 and 9-14, and ... More >>

Cookbook Review: The Glorious Pasta of Italy, Including This Fettuccine Recipe

​Sure, we probably don't need another pasta cookbook. But The Glorious Pasta of Italy by Domenica Marchetti is pretty hard to pass up -- and we have a lot of Italian cookbooks in our library. Marchetti grew up in New Jersey on handmade ravioli (her mother is from Abruzzo). And so she spends ... More >>

Pantry Debate: The Shell Pasta Dilemma Chef Suzanne Goin's Anti-Clumping Tips

JGarbeeAn Unfortunate Orecchiette Torpedo​For some, the never-ending grocery store debate involves which shortcut ingredients will actually mean getting dinner on the table at a reasonable hour. For us, there is but one question (okay, two, as olive oil is always involved): Is it worth it to s ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Italian Cooking At Home

​The recently released Italian Cooking At Home is part of the growing At Home With the Culinary Institute of America series. The problem with any series, be it a crime novel or a cookbook, is they either continue to successfully shed light on a single subject with in-depth looks at those sfogl ... More >>

Q & A With Lidia Bastianich: On Vegas, Her Next Book Chances Of An L.A.-based Eataly

flickr user pritheworldBastianich At An Eataly Cooking Class Demo​Lidia Bastianich has a successful, long-running food television career on PBS, too many cookbooks to count, a mini Italian restaurant empire, namesake retail pasta sauces, and even a new QVC ceramic cookware line (sure, why not? ... More >>

Viztango: Shrimp Scampi from a Food Truck?

Now that you can get pretty much any culture's culinary staple tucked in a taco, I decided to think outside the tortilla. Could I find good shrimp scampi on a food truck? As a friend of mine asked: why would you try? Chutzpah, hubris, a calculated attempt to strengthen my GI tract's disease resist ... More >>

Gastropub Sans the Pub

Xiomara Reconsidered

Best Truffle Pizza: Enoteca Drago

Christie BishopEnoteca Drago's Pizza Bomba​ L.A. pizza joints are a dime a dozen, dotting the landscape like pieces of pepperoni and sausage. While there are a few clear leaders of the pack, like Pizzeria Mozza and Santa Monica Place's Pizza Antica, if its indulgence, thin crust and black tru ... More >>

GelatoVino: Now Serving Dual Sugar Highs in Hollywood

J. Ritz​ George Abou-Daoud, the de facto mayor of Sunset in Hollywood, has added another venue to his lineup. GelatoVino joins sibling establishments Bowery, District, Mercantile, Mission Cantina, Delancey, and Tamarind Avenue Deli, bringing a gelato and dessert wine concept into the Abou-Dao ... More >>

It is the Water: Focaccia

D. GonzalezTomato focaccia from Dolce Forno​ Developed centuries ago in Rome and still found in most supermarket bread aisles, focaccia is not rare. What is rare, however, is freshly made focaccia that has a thin crisp crust while maintaining a soft airy interior. The kind that can be eaten ... More >>

Bulgarini Gelato: Coming to A Theatre Near You A Second Westside Store Next Summer

​As fans of Bulgarini Gelato know all too well, to get your fix of Leo Bulgarini's remarkable gelato, you have to pilgrimage north to Altadena, up the gradually inclining Lake Avenue all the way to the San Gabriel foothills and the vast concrete universe of a Rite Aid parking lot. Your trek is ... More >>

Gelato Bar Los Feliz Soft Opens Today At Yesterday's Prices

J. RitzComing soon to Hillhurst: Gelato Bar gelati.​When aiming to open their new Los Feliz location of Gelato Bar in late spring/early summer, owners Gail Silverton and Joel Gutman have achieved the near impossible for food business proprietors -- they will soft open around their target windo ... More >>

Squid Ink Food Fight: Pasta with Clams, Il Pastaio Vs. Angeli Caffe

N. GalutenIl Pastaio's Bianchi e Neri​ In the book Heat, Bill Buford's massively compelling account of his work as an extern in Mario Batali's flagship restaurant Babbo, the author waxes poetically about the splendor that is linguine vongole. The greatness of the dish, he explains, is not in ... More >>

99 Things To Eat in L.A. Before You Die: Bulgarini Goat's Milk Gelato

On Thursday the Weekly will publish our Restaurant Issue: 99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die. For the days leading up to the issue, we'll be posting a few of Jonathan Gold's items on the blog. Check back each day as we count down. Bulgarini Goat's Milk Gelato: Los Angeles is a world capital ... More >>

Coming Soon to Brentwood: Spumoni Italian Cafe and Yogurtland

As if Brentwood isn't home to enough Italian restaurants within a five-block radius, Spumoni Italian Cafe & Pizzeria opens February 15th, located next door to Osteria Latini on San Vicente Boulevard. Also on the block is La Scala and Pizzicotto. And a bit further down the street you can find Sor Tin ... More >>

Carbonara Quest: Angelini Osteria

Ask Mr. Gold: In Search of the Perfect Spaghetti Alla Carbonara

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menuDear Mr. Gold: You would think, after all this time, that somebody would make a decent spaghetti alla carbonara in this town, but although I have run across good enough versions of trenette al pesto, bucatini all'Amatriciana, even tortellini in b ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Andy Cook's Wild Mushroom Risotto

Andy Cook, executive chef of Gordon Ramsay at the London West Hollywood, likes his risotto. It's a very fine risotto, made with wild mushrooms and finished with mascarpone. The dish is not only incredibly versatile, but a kind of object lesson for chefs and for those learning to cook. When Cook teac ... More >>

Name That Pastry Chef: Jashmine Corpuz of Drago Centro Her Amaretti Cookie Recipe

Folks, we have a resident cyber pastry-guru in our midst. H.C. guessed correctly again. This week's Name That Pastry Chef is Jashmine Corpuz of Drago Centro. Not to worry, you all get the grand prize - Corpuz's amaretti cookie recipe. "I've always been passionate about pastry... when I was a kid I ... More >>

Focaccia at Mozza 2 Go, Mondays Starting September 28th

Nancy Silverton has been looking for something different to serve at Mozza 2 Go--something to serve by the slice, that people don't have to wait for, something with longevity. This year, during her annual trip to Italy, the pizza impresario travelled to Puglia, a region known for its distinct cuisin ... More >>

My Tagliolini, Your Pappardelle: Talking Pasta Shapes with Chef Gino Angelini

Photo Credit: University Hospitals, Ireland Cancer CenterChef Gino Angelini​Gino Angelini was born in a food lover's paradise, the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. He has been cooking since he was 14 years old and currently runs the highly acclaimed restaurant Angelini Osteria. He took a brie ... More >>

Celestino: First Date, Italian-Style

White tablecloths, good wine and that golden light

Ask Mr Gold: White Tablecloths, Good Wine & That Golden Light

Dear Mr. Gold: What would you recommend as a good first-date Italian restaurant more or less in the Pasadena area? Peter, Pasadena

Inside the Walk-In: Mozza's Secret Wall of Guanciale -- Plus a Taste of Pizzeria Mozza's Newest Egg-Topped Pizza

Margy RochlinTaking the cure: Mozza's Wall of Guanciale On the corner of Highland and Melrose, somewhere in the murky depths of a well-known restaurant's back kitchen, in the farthest reaches of the walk-in hidden behind three rolling racks, there hangs a secret treasure. Behold Osteria Mozza's ... More >>

Dom's and Subs: Po' Boys and Meatballs, Little Dom's Big Easy Secret

Chef Brandon Boudet's unconventional oyster po' boy is probably the best in L.A.

Celestino Drago's New City Cuisine: Gravity of Centro

A Perino's for 2010 and beyond, plus the most glamorous view in L.A.

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