Italian round-up
We’ve got lots of Italian on the food and drink page today. Here’s my review of Roma If I give a restaurant two stars, it means one of two things. Either the establishment is trying to pull off...
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Bella Luna owners present classics with a twist at new View It’s not easy to find the new restaurant View, unless you had ever dined at the Edgecliff Room or the Coach and Four at the Edgecliff. It’s...
View ArticleVia Vite review
In the last three years, Fountain Square has become the beating heart of the city, with music and activity and people mingling day and night. Just as exciting as the programming, which showcases local...
View ArticleCampanello’s
You know those locations where one restaurant after another tries and then fails? Sometimes the restaurants are excellent, and the location doesn’t even seem that bad. (That one space on Hyde Park...
View ArticleThe buzz about A Tavola is true
DINING REVIEW For weeks now, I’ve had to tell everyone who kept asking that I hadn’t yet been to A Tavola, the new pizza restaurant in Over-the-Rhine’s Gateway Quarter. Though I always wait for a bit...
View ArticleGermano’s offers delights both on, off menu
DINING REVIEW I wasn’t sure there could be a better pie than the raspberry pie at Germano’s in Montgomery, made by Angiolina Germano for many years. But I’ve discovered one. It’s the black berry pie...
View ArticleEnoteca Emilia: Pizza, pasta are primo!
DINING REVIEW Anyone who wants to open an Italian restaurant and serve something new doesn’t have to invent dishes. All that is necessary is to go back to the source. Once we knew meatballs and...
View ArticleEuropa Bistro & Café: A secret garden of delights
DINING REVIEW When you enter Europa Bistro Café from MainStrasse in Covington, you see a long, narrow room with a gelato case, a deli case and some beautiful desserts under glass along one side. It...
View ArticleBella Luna: Italian with a family touch
DINING REVIEW In some ways, Bella Luna restaurant is like dinner in an Italian grandmother’s kitchen. There are mismatched plates and the tablecloths are plastic, so you can splash red gravy around all...
View ArticleReview: Pompilios: New spot, familiar Italian
Would the food at Pompilios in Newport taste as good if it wasn’t served in its warm and soulful vintage atmosphere? If you didn’t walk past the bar with the tiled floor and mahogany bar, into the...
View ArticleVito’s Cafe entertains, elates
DINING REVIEW Like any restaurant, Vito’s Cafe has hit high and low notes over the course of its career. In the past 10 years, the restaurant in Fort Thomas has had chefs come and go, business wax and...
View ArticleWhite House becomes Casa Bianca
The owner of Symmes Tavern in Fairfield has bought the venerable White House Inn in West Chester and has turned it into an Italian restaurant. The name is simply a translation: Casa Bianca. Joe...
View ArticleAlfio’s now open
Alfio’s Buon Cibo has opened in Hyde Park, serving a blend of cuisine from Italy and Argentina. Alfio Gulisano, from an Italian family in Buenos Aires, will be sharing the food of his heritage and of...
View ArticleAlfio’s Buon Cibo: Two cuisines live side by side
DINING REVIEW “Well, that’s redundant,” said my South American friend when I told him I was going to an Italian-Argentine restaurant. The national menu of Argentina, a nation of immigrants, is as...
View ArticleDiStasi Restaurant Now Open
DiStasi Restaurant and Banquet Center in Wyoming has opened. They had a practice run-through last night and will be open to the public starting this evening. This is the restaurant from Dino DiStasi,...
View ArticleTwo locations of Piada Italian Street Food to open here
Piada Italian Street Food is a fast-casual Italian food chain that has recently been featured in Nation’s Restaurant News as one of the “hottest new concepts in America.” It adapts Italian food to the...
View ArticleReview: Barresi’s adds a dash of new to Italian classics
I have been enjoying myself immensely recently as I try a series of new restaurants that are creating a modern dining scene – places like Kaze, Metropole and M. Like a lot of the eating-out public, I...
View ArticleReview: Wyoming gets a new dining destination at DiStasi
It’s been a long time since Wyoming has been a dining destination. For residents and people driving through on Springfield Pike, there’s Gabby’s and Half Day Cafe. But ever since Sturkey’s became...
View ArticleReview: The food speaks for itself at Sotto
Sotto, the new Italian restaurant Downtown, is named for its location in a basement that was once La Normandie. Sotto means “under,” and I have been remembering the name by thinking of the term sotto...
View ArticleReview: Boca offers perfection with a pedigree Downtown
114 E. Sixth St. is an address with a pedigree as the home for years of Maisonette. New dollars – millions of them – have transformed it into the new home of Boca (which has a history itself, though...
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