Restaurants

Its pillowy potato roll, perfectly tender meat, and crunchy slaw are just for me, thanks.

A pair of restaurant soul mates if there ever was one.

One city’s humble, but indisputable, iconic dish.

But how could I convince my Italian brother-in-law of this indisputable fact?

The Detroit suburbs have gone through a massive demographic change in the past 60 years. Gino’s has been around during all of it.

So why have I never been visited?

Meet Laura Hartley Maxey and Scott Maxey, one of many couples who got engaged at V’s Italian Ristorante.

We asked the Yale historian who wrote the book Ten Restaurants That Changed America.

It’s out of vogue everywhere, except....

But wait, who’s Bryan?

(But it was never really about the pizza.)

An ode to portion sizes.

How a Lutheran from central Illinois created a genre-defining Italian-American restaurant.

May this mini Trevi Fountain in Madison, Wisconsin, never change.

I look at the way Italian Americans have progressed from a demonized immigrant group to an unquestioned part of the country’s fabric, and I think, Damn, I want that too.

BA’s wine editor has a not-so-guilty pleasure.

My summers doing who even knows what at Bertucci’s.

How do you keep the old customers while also courting the new? Ask 73-year-old restaurateur Frank Guido.

At Frankies 457 Spuntino in Brooklyn, the real fun starts when the after-dinner drinks hit the table.

Silvio Frlic has worked at Brooklyn red sauce stalwart Bamonte’s for 41 years. Silvio Frlic has seen some things.

But how does it even make sense for them to offer this?

Friday night at Camille’s, a Providence, Rhode Island, red sauce legend more than a century in the making.

As they say, “the worse the art in restaurants, the better the food.”

Finding the cure to what ails me under a blanket of cheese

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.

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.

It starts with free wine samples, endless breadsticks, and keeping my expectations low.

Jason Hochman, Larry Zakarin, and their friends have been coming to this iconic NYC Italian steakhouse for 15 years and counting.

After quietly rising through the unsung ranks at local icon Gene & Georgetti, one ambitious cook opened his own classic Italian steakhouse.

Have you ever eaten Italian food on top of photos of...Italian food?