The spirit of abbondanza and la dolce vita filled the air during the recent celebration of Italian National Day at...
Rustan’s Supermarket continues its 40-year tradition of providing its customers the best food products sourced from the world over with...
When business partners Juan Elizalde and Paolo Occhionero opened Aria Cucina Italiana in April 2003 in Boracay, they found the experience quite insane.
The most engaging new Italian restaurant that I’ve been returning to lately is My Kitchen, which is located off Paco Park in Manila. I mention this fact at the top of the article because those who are unwilling to travel outside the Makati-Ortigas axis or who are looking for a stylish new restaurant for a dinner date can stop reading here.
Chef Marcello Spadone speaks no English, but that didn’t matter. He let his cooking do the talking. Of course, the other information had to be supplied by someone else, and the man who brought him here, sales director Rodrigo Redmont of Talamonti Winery, spoke excellent English.
Around the time I started writing about food, the Edsa Shangri-La opened and shocked the establishment by not having...
In 1986, Margarita “Gaita” Fores packed her bags and flew to Italy for a crash course on Italian cooking. In a span of six months, she moved from Florence, Milan and Rome, soaking up as much as she could in Italian culture as well as learning about local markets, local ingredients and the home-style cuisine of three signoras.
Mama Lou’s Italian Kitchen has expanded to Laguna and still serves good-quality food–like the original in Las Piñas.
I indulged in a selection of cured meats and cheeses with wine, all from Italy.
The deal is irresistible: the lengthy thin but puffy pizza, topped with moist pork, tomatoes, cheese, cured Italian ham or mushrooms and crisp salad greens, pegged at its regular price. But its partner dish, a choice of creamy penne with squash flowers and walnuts; linguini with squid ink sauce; or butterfly-shaped pasta with stewed tomatoes, squash flowers and zucchini, costs only P18 each.
