Restaurants
An ode to portion sizes.
Kelly Conaboy
How a Lutheran from central Illinois created a genre-defining Italian-American restaurant.
Priya Krishna
May this mini Trevi Fountain in Madison, Wisconsin, never change.
Madeleine Davies
Finding the cure to what ails me under a blanket of cheese
Carey Polis
Meet Laura Hartley Maxey and Scott Maxey, one of many couples who got engaged at V’s Italian Ristorante.
Liz Cook
How many ways can you possibly cook a pounded-thin piece of chicken breast? Well, as any self-respecting red sauce menu will tell you, the answer is…a lot.
Amiel Stanek
Have you ever eaten Italian food on top of photos of...Italian food?
Lauren Larson
For the owner of Nino’s, the hardest part of letting go is making sure things stay exactly the same.
Christiane Lauterbach
The oldest Italian restaurant in Augusta, Georgia, is a fifth-generation Greek family–owned red sauce joint called Luigi’s.
Virginia Willis
Mike Gotovac, a bartender at the legendary L.A. celebrity hangout Dan Tana’s, looks back on half a century in the biz.
Maggie Lange
When the legendary football coach first moved to Oklahoma, the only Italian food available was Chef Boyardee. Then he met chef Pasquale Benso.
Barry Switzer, as told to Greg Elwell
Yeah, I grew up in Brooklyn, the epicenter of Italian-American food. But it wasn’t until I moved down South that I learned to truly appreciate the stuff.
Brett Martin
It starts with free wine samples, endless breadsticks, and keeping my expectations low.
Kristen N. Arnett
Jason Hochman, Larry Zakarin, and their friends have been coming to this iconic NYC Italian steakhouse for 15 years and counting.
Eric Ginsburg
After quietly rising through the unsung ranks at local icon Gene & Georgetti, one ambitious cook opened his own classic Italian steakhouse.
Mike Sula
There’s nothing quite like that “muzzadelle” feeling.
Emma Straub
How summers at the Jersey Shore expanded my definition of red sauce.
Emily Schultz
How Alex Pemoulie of Mean Sandwich rediscovered her favorite cuisine at Restaurant Machiavelli in Seattle.
Alex Pemoulie
Welcome to Murph’s, where the Guinness is plentiful and the Bolognese is perfect.
Alex Delany
Prepare for a red-sauce baptism.
Elyse Inamine
Over dairy-doused cutlets at La Famiglia Giorgio's in Boston, I started to imagine what family might look like for me.
Cleopatra Zuli
The hardest reservation in New York is Rao’s, a one-room red sauce joint in East Harlem. Co-owner Frank Pellegrino Jr. gives us a peek through the hallowed red door.
Aliza Abarbanel
Some red sauce joints serve a side of spaghetti. Tommaso serves a side of crooning Italian ballads.
Giulia Melucci
This mostaccioli haven was not just my introduction to Italian-American food. It was my introduction to restaurants, period.
Bao Ong