Chiara Quaglia, CEO of Petra Molino Quaglia, shares her story with Tgcom24 readers
Chiara Quaglia, CEO of Petra Molino Quaglia, shares her story with Tgcom24 readers
Cousins Joe Whittaker and Peter Lancaster have fulfilled a dream that looks set to benefit Bolton as much as themselves.
Food lovers will be getting a 'pizza' of the action this weekend as a new restaurant and wine bar opened its doors yesterday evening...
Whether with or without tomato sauce, sfincione in Sicily marks a precise line that is that of the coastline that stretches from Palermo to the neighbouring areas of Bagheria, Casteldaccia and Altavilla, but which in different forms and versions reaches as far as Trapani and Sciacca...
Temperatures drop and... pizza goes in the oven! Here are some seasonal specialities that are perfect for winter. High quality establishments pay attention to dough and toppings for a pizza that from street food becomes a true gourmet dish.
Young pizza chef Lele Scandurra conquers the palate with a very technical, creative and contemporary proposal: six versions of the Margherita, then lots of attention to Sicilian products and four different types of dough
A master of dough, a master of pizzas. You go to Vittuone, in the western hinterland of Milan, for a very good reason: to be welcomed at Pizzeria dell'Angolo...
It is difficult to understand what makes new establishment successful. For sure, one of the variables is originality. And not only in absolute terms. Roman-style pizza in the baking tin, for example, is certainly not unknown...
The debate between the fundamentalists of tradition and the advocates of innovation in pizzerias has always been heated, often resembling the confrontation between fans of two rival teams.
I believe our flagship is the dough,’ they explain to us at the Savô in Via Gustavo Fara 10, Milan, a 'gourmet pizzeria' - as it calls itself - created as a replica of patron Marcello Divano's restaurant that has been reaping success in Genoa since 2015, in Via al Ponte Calvi 16R...
Epicentre of the Mediterranean halfway between East and West, the island of Ortigia, shaped over the millennia by the sea and the Sirocco wind, stands proud and brazen of identifying as a place destined for hospitality...
La Capanna's adventure starts from a bar in Nus. We are on state road 26, the one that connects Turin to Aosta, halfway between the latter and Saint Vicent, in the shadow of the Matterhorn and the Muscat de Chambave vineyards.
Soon it will be time again for Sigep and for us this means ideally opening a new year with the participation in the most important event for leavened products,...
10 years of pizzeria DryMilano. That is to say, 10 years of steaming pizzas & cocktails; 10 years and countless guests who consider this their favourite place...
Giovanni Senese, born in 1985 in Naples, now based in Liguria, is patron and pizzachef at Pizzeria Senese in Sanremo, which is part of Petra Selected Partners.
Artisanal pizza is living a happy season because we have realised that such an iconic dish and bastion of our country's gastronomic culture deserves to be interpreted not only with technical expertise, but also with the diversity of values and sensibilities typical of the artisanal pizzaiolo...
Saccharum, an innovative pizzeria in Altavilla Milicia, a few kilometres from Palermo, focuses on research and experimentation while remaining in the groove of territoriality...
After almost two decades of work to modernise pizzerias, as a consequence of the professional growth of pizzaioli, it is useful to take stock of what has been achieved so far and of the new paths of growth of the real added value of pizza.
Pizza & cocktails at Elementi, the pizzeria-cocktail bar born in Barberino di Mugello (via del Pozzo 13) and now also in Prato (via Agnolo Firenzuola 33)
Pierangelo Chifari was smiling weeks ago as he announced to us with palpable enthusiasm that: “by the end of June, we should open a second branch of ‘Archestrato di Gela, this time in Monreale'...
There are establishments that admit no misunderstanding. That of Antonio Ilardi, a stone's throw from Piazza dell'Anfiteatro in the historic centre of Lucca, is among them...
The activity and research of master pizzaiolo Lele Scandurra at his pizzeria L'Evoluzione in Catania is more and more dynamic...
Biga - we wrote about it here - doubles in Milan (new location in Via Antnio Pollaiuolo 9, which joins the one in Via Volta 20) and proposed for the summer a special pizza, born from the work of Simone Nicolosi...
Francesco was born and began his career in Campania where he lives today. He started to learn his profession in 2010 when his father, together with his brother, decided to open a pizzeria in Salerno...
Noi Quattro:Traditional Italian street food inspired by Naples, made for Manchester.
Pizza in the last five or so years has become the BBQ of the early 2010s, with new ventures popping up everywhere. Ranging from people doling out Ooni pies in their home kitchens, to takes on the ‘grammable Detroit-style, and everything in between...
"This focaccia is such a beautifully crisp and crunchy bread, and the fresh grapes and rosemary give it beautiful flavor. I love the way the grapes burst in the oven, which seeps into the dough and gives it even more flavor".
The Italian chef talks her new festive pop-up with Bloomingdale's and her favorite holiday traditions.
"This Petra flour is hands down my favorite flour to bake with. Such a game changer," De Laurentiis shared on Twitter. Her website Giadzy, which sells the flour, offers similar praise, saying it "bakes like a dream" and has an "elegant, never-gritty texture that can be used in nearly any baking project."
Take a theatre, transform it into a pub and finally turn it into a pizzeria that is now talked about highly throughout Italy: in short, this is the winning recipe created by the owners of L'Orso...
A simple idea that starts from the old Cilento housewives' pizza - the one made from bread leftovers - modernised today by the fact that you can order everything with a click: a beautiful, coloured box, pizza discs ready to be heated, sauce and cacioricotta cheese...
Confine - Pizza e cantina opened in early April in Piazza Guglielmo Massaia in Milan. It is the new restaurant of Francesco Capece, who is already part of the Petra Selected Partners with Locanda dei Feudi in San Cipriano Piacentino (Salerno)
There is a lot of good at Biga Milano, a pizzeria that opened on the 31st October 2021 and that grinds out pizzas after pizzas in Via Volta 20, in the Moscova-La Foppa area, with Corso Como just a stone's throw away (in June, i.e. very soon, a clone is scheduled to open not far away, in the Isola district)...
The column in which we are inserting this article is called Mondo Pizza: playing with this title, we could say that by entering one of the pizzerias opened and run by Massimiliano Prete you can just as easily find a 'world' dedicated to pizza...
Now that the pandemic is over, the pizza world is experiencing a crucial moment, one that will either decree the definitive liberation from the idea of a pizza that is sometimes cheesy and reduced to cliché or the return to inexpressive, soulless pizzas...
What's the celebrity chef's go-to flour product for baked goods, which she calls a "game-changer?" De Laurentiis swears by Petra 9 All-Purpose Whole Wheat Flour to make her sweets (and savories) shine
Benigno Dal Dosso, known as Mino, never stops. An Ais sommelier struck by a passion for food, he is now a restaurant entrepreneur who makes pragmatism his strength...
Pizza & Spirits is the claim of Fratelli Prisco, in Boscotrecase (Naples). Two brothers, indeed, and each in his own sphere...
Contemporary pizza is not a new recipe, but it is the process of pizza becoming part of a cuisine that contributes to gastronomic evolution, always looking a little beyond the present...
Among the best interpreters of that portion of Campania called Terra di Lavoro, the pizzaiolo from Caserta has fascinating agricultural-gourmet style. Here is why. Plus some notes on his new Impronta Doro in Cervignano del Friuli
It’s been an eventful year for Daniele Uditi, who’s busy solidifying his status as the most prominent and prolific pizzaiolo in Los Angeles.
GIACOMO DEVOTO and GIANMARCO FERRANDI - The comfort-provocation of pizza made in Lunigiana
Identità Milano 2023 was also an opportunity to find out about the offer of the many fine exhibitors who packed the large exhibition area with their offer: fine products interpreted by food masters...
South Italy. And South America. For Luca Doro, distance turns into proximity and diversity into new and tasty opportunities...
‘We wanted to name it La Rita, a proper name, with the article in front, as commonly used in Milan. But the name also recalls pizza Margherita and Santa Margherita, our previous sign'.
Genius and genius loci. Vision and memory. Experimentation and tradition. The addendums do not change for Patrick either. With his brother Gianluca and the whole family he’s at the helm of Rock - Zanoni dal 1978...
Tramonti and Bergamo: the leitmotif of the entire Nasti production.
'For us Neapolitans, the sun and the sea are a source of oxygen and Sanremo made me feel at home, right from day one'
"There is no doubt that tradition must be preserved. But, from my point of view, this is valid as long as tradition is not understood as a comfort zone in which to take refuge to avoid developing products in line with the times.
Killa Carbs, owned by Lara King and based in Darwen, will be at the Darwen Food & Drink Festival over the Easter weekend (Sunday, April 9 and Monday, April 10) serving their Neapolitan style pizza.
The restaurant with its modern design and warm lights in Altavilla Milicia, a small town half an hour from Palermo, is called Saccharum to recall that there were extensive sugar cane plantations in this area between 1300 and 1500...
Roco's Lab was created by renovating the spaces - over 500 square metres - of an old, abandoned 20th century sawmill in Cunettone di Salò, in the province of Brescia. It’s a Petra Selected Partner
Among the lectures at Università della Pizza there is a particularly interesting one held by Vittorio Munari, a great rugby coach and for years an excellent and witty sports reporter...
Alberto Morello's 'pizzeria with a vegetable garden' - by now risen to the Olympus of Italy's top pizzerias - has turned 20...
A pub and pizza restaurant is opening a new wine bar and diner after tasting success with its business...
La scelta coraggiosa di Giuseppe Ruocco che con una minuziosa ricerca sta riuscendo a creare una fantastica realtà Cilento/Napoletana nel centro di Riga.
On the 7th of November 2012, on the occasion of the 7th edition of PizzaUp in Vighizzolo d'Este, Chiara Quaglia and myself, together with eight of the most accredited representatives of Italian journalist and culinary critics, opened a debate on the future of Italian pizza....
The contemporary pizzeria of the nearest future passes through three necessary steps, three Gordian knots that can alternatively manifest themselves as difficulties or as opportunities, depending on how we approach them...
"This edition of PizzaUp has shown how quickly man is capable of changing his mind. How ready man is for change. And it also showed how fluid our world of artisans is. Nourished by beauty, art, music, writing, culture. Hence my admonition: be prepared for change”...
There is always an air of celebration at pizzeria Vàsame in Sorrento, the kingdom of the very young Vincenzo Nese...
Nicola Jackson-Jones left her career in insurance after 18 years to launch her own pizzeria
Giacomo Garau opened his Olio e Basilico in 2016, wood fire oven, modern décor, indoor and outdoor tables. Today it is, to all intents and purposes, a destination pizzeria, the kind that deserves the trip
Throw far and start to run. Massimo Giovannini is like that: direct, determined, humble, prepared, consistent. And very good...
Bob stands for Roberto Davanzo, protagonist with his partner Anna Rotella of a small gastronomic case, which this time concerns not the world of fine dining, but that of gourmet pizza: the place is called Bob Alchimia a Spicchi, in Montepaone...
'Please bring me a pizza, but without pizza'. Because, let's put it this way: Simone Padoan can finally escape the never-ending debate as to why Michelin continues not to reward the best pizzerias with at least one star;...
A good product, a cosy place in a pleasant neighbourhood, with a warm and familiar service, where the protagonists are on the plate, and the guests enjoying this...
A destination pizzeria in all respects, in Macerata Campania, in the province of Caserta. A venue that becomes a bulwark of local gastronomic traditions, the right place to savour the best from local (and non-local) artisans...
Antonio Pappalardo, after Cascina dei Sapori in Rezzato (part of Petra Selected Partners), doubles with Inedito in Brescia.
From morning till late at night, from dawn till dusk, there is a new establishment in Milan that can accommodate every kind of craving, at all hours of the day, and under one roof: Nhero.
It is a period of great growth for Cristian Marasco, who with his pizzeria La Grotta Azzurra is one of Petra Selected Partners. Now also he uses flour from Molino Quaglia at the new GranAria bakery lab too...
In the Agriculture column of Italia Oggi from 6 July 2022, a text titled 'Evolutionary grains, absolute diversity' was published...
Nicola Jackson-Jones, owner of Two Cents Pizza, swapped spreadsheets for pizzas just before the pandemic and is now selling her deliciously decadent wares from a mobile catering unit
The key to a good pizza? It’s all about the base.
And it’s something Wild Fire Pizza have pulled off with aplomb...
Only 15 km south-west of Noto, there’s another delicious place in Rosolini, A' Cava. Here is what we say in the Guida Identità Golose:...
There was a time, recently, when the enlightened work of Corrado and Carlo Assenza at Caffè Sicilia was beautifully ignored locally, even by the local administration, as if it were a neglectable bizarre thing and not (also) a place with an extraordinary potential for tourism and gastronomy...
TWO cousins with a passion for pizza are moving their lockdown business into a pub in a new venture.
Your trusted voice when it comes to dining out in Sunderland. Here’s what we thought of Wild Fire Pizza at The Ship Isis, the brilliant new pizza offering serving up the finest Neapolitan-style pizzas in Sunderland…
Fratelli Figurato is a newly opened pizzeria in Madrid’s Chamberí neighborhood, brought to us by two brothers hailing from Naples who share a strong passion for pizza and innovation.
Stefano Manfredi admits opening a restaurant in western Sydney is something he never thought he'd do, having spent his childhood and teenage years in the area before moving away...
Simple ingredients, all Italian, always adding a creative touch and the use of excellent ingredients: Crocca's pizza takes us back to the Italy of the 1970s and 1980s,...
There's only one secret behind the pizza at Piano B: Friedi Schmuck got to know Sicilian wheat even before most of the island's pizzaioli and bakers started to suspect they could use it to give a supply-chain focus to their work...
Antonio Pappalardo's prestigious collaborations at La Cascina dei Sapori in Rezzato (Brescia) continue. He's having fun teaming up with great names of international fine dining...
When you talk with Francesco Oppido you cannot contain a deep sense of gratitude for what pizza is today: not just matter but thought...
The Arrigoni&Basso – formed respectively by Alberto Arrigoni and Michele Basso – is the duo united in the name of pizza when they attended Petra Molino Quaglia's Università della Pizza: an incubator of ideas for the future...
Milan is a great Italian market for high quality pizza: some choose one and will never betray it, some go here and there because choosing their one and only favourite is hard…
Over the past few years, we've had some unexpected life and work experiences. 2021 should have been a prelude to normality,...
Roberta Esposito's pizzeria La Contrada is in Piazza Marconi, in the heart of the historic centre of Aversa, where people have always come to have some good food, and enjoy the tasty local restaurant offer...
Innovation with feet well set in the ground of tradition, for Francesco Martucci from I Masanielli in Caserta, who starts his lesson explaining that...
Among the "treats" offered by Identità di Pizza there was also a north-south debate on pizza fritta...
La Scaletta in Ascoli Piceno has been a success for 40 years now. Founded by Mirko Petracci's parents, it is now run by him, a pizzaiolo in love with research, on top of being the protagonist of a beautiful Italian story...
«If you stop, it means you're done, and this would be the end». An end that Simone Padoan keeps well at a distance giving joy to all those who visit I Tigli, his restaurant in San Bonifacio...
Life is made of meetings. The one between Ilaria Puddu and Stefano Saturnino was a lucky one. In the ten following years Ilaria went from collaborator to partner of Stefano. And she's also the soul of the two latest-born of what is now an unbreakable partnership: Gelsomina and Giolina...
Cereals are the foundation of the Mediterranean diet and in our culinary tradition we eat them in various ways. Most typically as an ingredient for baked products and pasta, in the shape of flour....
In Piazza Marina 52, in front of the historic Palazzo Chiaramonte – Steri, we meet the Quid Gusto Siciliano (sicilian taste) restaurant and pizzeria. It has a scenic al fresco space outside, just in front of the giant Ficus Magnolioides.
With the 16th edition coming up, we present a few more speakers who will debut at the congress. What with kitchen, mixology and entrepreneurship
Among the debuts of the 16th edition, pizzaioli Danilo Brunetti and Francesco Capece, pastry chef and chocolatier Pino Ladisa and Gian Luca Cavi, the soul of ice cream shop Magritte
On Sunday the 26th September, morning and afternoon, the focus will be on sweetness and its future, in partnership with Petra® Molino Quaglia and Valrhona
Coming from the same team as London's top tier pizzeria Santa Maria, this new vegan pizzeria is great news for London's veggie crowd...
Eight speakers what with great masters and young talents, for six lessons on Monday 27th September. An evergreen of Identità Milano returns, in partnership with Petra® Molino Quaglia
Marghe, Giolina, Crocca, Pizzium (and pastry shop Gelsomina) all belong to the same group, awarded by Identità. The secret? «Creating different services, atmospheres, and types of dough»
A new pizzeria is set to open in Nottingham city centre specialising in neo-Neapolitan pizza.
Calalzo di Cadore, in the province of Belluno, is a «Middle Earth», that's how Livio Mancini calls it. Since 2012 he's the patron and pizzaiolo at El Gringo...
Pizzeria Flegrea is part of the history of Torino: opened back in 1976, it was the first Neapolitan pizzeria in town...
The space dedicated to fine pizzas is growing and growing in the Guida di Identità Golose...
Supply chains are the result of the work of transformation of the product of the earth into good and healthy products and, as we all know, the total value is higher than the sum of each part...
Enthusiastic, passionate, cheerful. Having a chat with Giacomo Devoto in hard times is almost therapeutic; it's like a wisp of fresh air on a hot summer day...
Every time and place has its revolutionary people. In the restaurant industry, in the days of the pandemic, these are the men and women capable of imagining a present of resistance to the different measures, the openings and the closings and the uncertainties...
Four letters, bright and energetic. Highlighted by a line that recalls, in a stylised way, a peel.
After 30 editions, Università della Pizza® changes into a "hybrid" format to follow the needs imposed in pizzerias by the new measures to contrast Covid19...
He didn't like working in the office. Regardless of the many sacrifices taken in Rome to become an accountant, this turned out to be not really what he wanted for his future and he took off his accountant "uniform" as soon as his career begun...
In April 2020 Tommaso Vatti, pizzaiolo and soul – with his brother Federico – of La Pergola in Radicondoli, opened Autoctona, a multi-functional space that includes an artisanal bakery and a delicatessen with products from trustworthy producers from all around Italy...
During the event to present the Identità Golose guide, the sweet and savoury notes of Marco Pedron impressed everyone. He filled the panettone made by Alberto Roffia, a 4-handed job between the pastry labs of Cracco and Alvin's
«The most difficult thing? Baking in the wood oven». This statement by Cristian Marasco, pizzaiolo originally from Campania but born in Lecco and with positive reviews in our guide and in all the others in the industry, could leave a little surprised...
Orgoglio Italiano: this is the name of the tasting menu, that is to say of the format (only available for take away, while the pizzas à la carte can also be delivered) with which Sestogusto – the famous and awarded gourmet pizzeria from Massimiliano Prete, in Torino – promises to pamper its clients even during the complicated weeks of the pandemic.
Will we return to training in the classroom? For sure, who knows when. But the real question is: what will the "pupils" want and need when we open again?...
Playful illustrations and a bespoke typeface form the identity for pop-themed pizzeria.
Bobo, bohemian bourgeois, throws you right in the middle of all-the-things-Riviera: sophisticated elegance, self-conscious confidence with a hint of bling-bling luxury. Then, throw a pinch of bohemian into the mix, and you have got a perfect Cannes restaurant: Bobo Bistro...
Sicily, a wonderful land, the cradle of ancient civilizations and cultures, a land of passion and love...
Carla Scaringi and Stefano Scaringi were born in Italy and opened their restaurant in 2013. It’s proven successful and has a regular crowd for its modern interpretations of classic dishes inspired by their home regions of Sardinia and Basilicata...
Simple, fun and easy on the pocket, this place should spark smiles all round
This vast new 130-seater pizzeria below the Everyman Cinema proposes to be a take on a classic Neapolitan joint. It’s from the team behind admired music-bar Spiritland – although, in fact, it’s more democratic, with an emphasis on good value...
An extract from the masterclass of the master of San Bonifacio at our digital congress. He says: "Tasting pizza to return to a concept of sharing and slowness"
A smiling chat, between two people who hold a good opinion of one another, and share a well-established friendship, opens the masterclass with Franco Pepe at Identità on the road 2020...
Among the episodes not to be missed at Identità on the road there's one that will make the pizzaioli who favour innovation happy. It's the video that sums up a chat between Paolo Marchi and Renato Bosco...
Luca Pezzetta at Identità on the road. Paolo Marchi met him at his Osteria di Birra del Borgo in Rome.
Francesco Martucci at Identità on the road. He told us about his debut and his vision of an avantgarde pizza and of research...
In the next edition of PizzaUp we won't be able to meet in the classrooms of the Università della Pizza, as we have in the past 15 years...
"Identità di pane e di pizza", the section dedicated to bread, dough, and toppings, returns in Milan to build a new future in this field which portrays Italy's identity
Focus on the Identità Golose 2020 format dedicated to desserts: nine lessons with as many speakers what with established and new faces
And now, LIVIN'Italy Dough House, on Cloth Hall Street, is inviting diners to indulge in their perfect pizza to their hearts' content.
Parsley is everywhere, so much so it’s never a compliment to say to someone [as in the Italian saying] that they’re like parsley, hence everywhere...
A nice surprise in a place with a strong connection with its area. Taste the toppings with Chianina meat from Fracassi...
It's unquestionable that rankings are interesting. In sport, competitions, restaurant guides, elections. And, unfortunately, since a few months ago, even in the daily news on infections...
Don't change a successful dough. And Marco Farabegoli holds this very dear, as it now represents the signature of his pizzeria al taglio Da Neo, a raft to overcome the breakers of the pandemic...
Born in Rome to parents from South Tyrol and Sicily, Friedi (that's how his friends call him), patron and pizzaiolo at Piano B in Syracuse, has always found the right stimuli in difficult times...
When Antonio Pappalardo asked me to present a pizza for his La Cascina dei Sapori, I thought of a story, a poem, instead of a simple list of ingredients. I wanted to create a connection with a region, a place that I found meaningful...
A simple pizzeria. This is the feeling when you dine at Pecora Negra in Menton, overlooking the very popular beach des Sablettes, a few metres from the historic centre of the French town...
"I presented this pizza at Identità Golose. In fact, to me it's much more than a simple pizza. It's a childhood memory, it's lightheartedness...
Fiori di zucca is a pizza that has always marked the arrival of the summer. Fresh, tasty, delicate, it surely was one of the most popular pizzas in the recent months at Enzo Coccia's La Notizia in Naples...
Since the location in Via Solferino was closed (until the 7th September the restaurant was transformed into a street art work, thanks to illustrator Nicola Laurora, aka Nico189) for its summer version, Dry Milano focused its efforts on the location in Viale Vittorio Veneto 28, with a large dehors...
"Rosso di Mazara was conceived as I was looking at a fish tank. I was attracted by the underwater world, my thoughts went to a fresh and summery recipe that could embrace that marine flavour...
Francesco Martucci is a great connoisseur of raw materials; he likes researching them, because it is only by fully understanding a product that you can develop it in every way...
Until the 24th August, the Ricciardella family opened Cascina Vittoria in Rognano, the first town in the province of Pavia after Milan’s metropolitan area...
An award-winning Leicestershire restaurant is showcasing its incredible refurbishment, which was carried out during lockdown...
No delivery, but pizzeria Battil'oro reopened in the spirit of continuity on the 15th of June and «the rebirth was unexpected!». Soon a new menu
After the great success of the limited edition pizza created together with chef Riccardo Camanini of Lido 84 in Gardone Riviera for the delivery service of Cascina dei Sapori, Antonio Pappalardo repeats the experience. And he does so superbly...
«You cannot imagine the future of the restaurant industry without it being safe, but we must preserve its conviviality. In restaurants and pizzerias, conviviality and sociality are crucial»...
Antonio Polzella has a strong connection with the land, a work that starts from afar and that over the years has allowed him to research, with curiosity and depth, every aspect that has to do with pizza and leavened products...
During the almost three months of forced closure, Daniele Donatelli was one of the few Italian gourmet pizzaioli who didn’t reinvent himself as a delivery place...
Gennaro Battiloro went against the current of the river of the Covid-19 emergency...
Do people want normality, or do they rather want something new? Change and normality are usually thought of as opposites, but they now can coexist, in the sense that a different normality can be born from changes...
We tested the new delivery service from the pizzaiolo from San Bonifacio: an excellent experience, you can recognise his talent
The pastry-chef from Noto: «We’re anticipating renovations. We’ll flow better than before». And for now, he launches the online shop
Ponso is a small village south of Padua surrounded by vineyards and orchards, a community of little over two thousand people. Here, in 2007, after a decade learning the ropes and juggling two jobs Matteo Rundo decided to start the adventure of a lifetime: pizzeria Re di Cuori...
Who would have imagined such a situation, in 2020? But here we are, forced to stay still. The first month I decided not to work: partly out of respect, partly out of fear, partly because I felt I really needed to slow down. I had to reach the point where I was bored...
Aspettando Identità Golose, waiting for Identità Golose was the dinner event organised in Rome a couple of weeks ago, a sort of preview before the Congress was postponed...
Bread is like air. We’re used to think that both exist, unchangeable, and therefore we grow unaware of their changes in time, which are the result of collective behaviour that lead to waste, and to the insensitivity towards one’s health and the health of the environment...
Giovanni Santarpia is back. And he’s back in great shape having opened a place named after him in January 2020 in the outskirts of Florence, but easy to reach from the city centre and from the motorway at Impruneta...
From Southern Italy to the Silicon Valley. Back in 2013 Maico Campilongo and Kristjan D'Angelo opened their pizzeria in Palo Alto, and called it Terùn...
Fabrizio Mancinetti is the talented pizzaiolo from The Oven, high quality in Bath, in England...
There’s little over a month to go, until the 16th edition of the Congresso di Identità Golose, which will take place in Milan, at MiCo, from the 7th to the 9th March...
If true empathy is the highest celebration of differences, here is its consecration on pizza. Thanks to a series of creations created – again at PizzaUp - by the polyphonic Corrado Assenza. Who is capable of giving a voice to single elements...
The number of pizzerias reviewed in the new edition of the Guida Identità Golose reaches 99 (after last year’s 85). The guide was presented late last year at the Excelsior Gallia hotel in Milan...
The relationship between pizzaioli and consumers grows in parallel with the relationship between pizzeria and social networks (especially Instagram and
Facebook)...
Halfway between a book and a collection of stories, through words and images, but without a single photo of a pizza; instead, the faces and hands of the pizzaioli – 13, interviewed, photographed and filmed – who have contributed in writing those stories...
«Let’s make it clear. Eating a pizza is not an innocent gesture», Massimo Donà, the histrionic theorist and deus ex machina of the Master’s Degree in Philosophy of Food and Wine at the Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, said at PizzaUp...
Pizza and sustainability: the future is as green as ever. Lorenzo Sirabella, of Dry Milano, the winner of the "Giovane Pizzaiolo dell'Anno 2019" award from 50 Top Pizza is convinced of this...
Alessandro Coppari, since 2004 at the helm of “cut-to-measure” pizzeria Mezzometro in Senigallia – while his brother Alessio is in charge of the Jesi branch – is a picture of contemporary pizza and of a pizzaiolo who doesn’t just knead pizza, but also carefully and thoroughly studies every ingredient, both in the dough and in the garnish...
On the 6th of November the curtain fell on edition 2019 at PizzaUp inside the school of Molino Quaglia in Vighizzolo d'Este (Padua) after three days of works with the presentation of the first volume of the Almanacco della Pizza...
Baghi’s is the adventure of Fabio and Riccardo, two lovers of good food in search of new gourmet flavors...
The name of the establishment – Colombo 1933 – leaves no doubt: it’s been almost 90 years since Giovanni Colombo opened his bread making laboratory in Busto Arsizio…
After announcing the theme of the next Identità Golose congress early in November (scheduled in Milan on the 7th-9th March), The Sense of Responsability, we’re now happy to disclose the emblem-dish of the 16th edition of Identità...
"I’ll have to admit to getting the wrong end of the stick when first hearing the name Pasta Factory, but thankfully a stroll down Shudehill and a peer through the window of this little Italian eatery was more than enough to persuade me it was definitely worth checking out...
A new dining concept, Italian Alley, arrives in Camden Market...
Literally struck in Caserta, on the way back home, in the north. Here we are, dutifully celebrating the extraordinary talent of Francesco Martucci at his I Masanielli...
The name of the establishment – Colombo 1933 – leaves no doubt: it’s been almost 90 years since Giovanni Colombo opened his bread making laboratory in Busto Arsizio...
«We’re creating a new economy based on cereal bio-difference», Giuseppe Li Rosi says. «We need innovation and quality, not large volumes», Corrado Assenza explains...
One year and a half of research, experiments and studies, to obtain a pizza that is both light and crispy, and very easy to digest...
Empathy is a relatively young word, and, in the meantime, it describes an attitude as ancient as man...
Although it’s probably true the further you go into the city centre, the less independents you’ll be greeted by, there are a few exceptions to the rule...
SARTO is a collaboration of two independent giants. They know their batch brew from their espresso and their Yorkshire puds from their fried chicken, but what the hell do they know about pasta?...
Leeds long-awaited pasta restaurant Sarto has just opened...
If you love pasta, you need to check out Sarto, stat...
This has been a banner year — a green, white and red banner, to be exact — for Italian food in San Diego...
Excellent news for Leicestershire’s leading Italian restaurant, Sapori, as they have been awarded a sought after Plate award in the Michelin Guide 2020...
From Tramonti, a village in the province of Salerno which from the Lattari mountains overlooks the Amalfi Coast, come many of the pizzaioli now working in northern Italy and beyond, as well as a style of pizza in its own right...
Ambrogio15 introduces Semola
When it comes to eating pizza in New York City, the options for urbanites are overwhelmingly endless...
The second lesson of day two at Eataly Flatiron starts with Petra Antolini, an artisan of pizza and patron at Settimo Cielo in Pescantina (Verona), a large restaurant with 25 employees...
VERYTHING about pizza at Noi Quattro is authentic and Italian, from the properly trained pizzaioli, traditional Neapolitan techniques and two artisan ovens to the finest ingredients...
There's a double "s" in the name of this restaurant in Savignano sul Rubicone, where young dough-fanatic Ciro J. Carbone is at work
From Tramonti, a village in the province of Salerno which from the Lattari mountains overlooks the Amalfi Coast, come many of the pizzaioli now working in northern Italy and beyond, as well as a style of pizza in its own right...
Three out of three: for the third time, out of three editions, Franco Pepe won the 50 Top Pizza: Pepe in Grani in Caiazzo, in the province of Caserta, is still number one in Italy, and therefore in the world, but it is no longer alone...
This issue of Identità di Pizza comes at the end of the summer. And who knows how many, this summer, dined with pizza. Consumption in touristic destinations increases and local pizzaioli are happy...
The dish you really shouldn’t miss, of course, is pizza Squib. And it represents the parable of the place of which it bears the name: an experiment created in a beat, which immediately reached a success beyond expectations...
The ex aequo award that has Franco Pepe and Francesco Martucci share the top of the 50 Top Pizza list is perhaps not appreciated by everyone, but it does give a clear picture of how things are...
"A premise. When approaching Dordoni in Cremona – it was almost time for dinner – I was unsure of what to do...
After one of the evening events that featured him and his pizza at Identità Golose Milano, Franco Pepe told us that the recent evolution of pizzerias – from a basic venture to a truly "specialised restaurant", with a structured offer – also implies the definition and the development of new, specific careers...
From September 23 through 25, ten of the world's famed chefs from across the globe will flock to Eataly Flatiron for the tenth U.S. edition of Identità Golose, the acclaimed international chefs' forum.
From September 23 through 25, ten of the world's famed chefs from across the globe will flock to Eataly Flatiron for the tenth U.S. edition of Identità Golose, the acclaimed international chefs' forum...
Gennaro Nasti is one of the stand out Italian chefs of a new generation. The Neapolitan who specialises in gourmet pizza, has pushed the envelope of the traditional style, navigating a new path towards fine dining.
The Little Italy Food Hall heads into its second year with a new eatery that will make its debut later this fall, joining Mein St. Asian Kitchen, Not Not Tacos by Sam the Cooking Guy, Wicked Maine Lobster, and Bobboi Natural Gelato in the space...
Travelling sure has its perks — sightseeing, cultural experiences and new landscapes among them — but we'd argue that the best part is sampling all the local food...
Just a block past Chinatown sits what some may call Little Italy: a smattering of restaurants whose authentic Italian fare would do their Lygon Street counterparts proud...
Tempted to think the pizza landscape in London can’t get any hotter than it is today? Just wait 24 hours...
Milling wheat into flour is the most ancient daily activity done by human beings...
In order to eat good pizza in Apulia, you don’t necessarily need to reach the very point of the heel...
One is focused, reserved, but now almost always ready to speak about his work and his territory. The other is an extrovert, histrionic, always ready to tell a joke – fun but wise, even when it’s in-your-face...
Ciro Jonathan Carbone, born in Romagna in 1988, started to work right after finishing high school, working as an accountant for a theatre company...
After Carlo Cracco and Massimiliano Alajmo – just to mention some of the most famous and debated recent examples – Francesco Apreda joins the list of great chefs who offer a personal (not always canonical) interpretation of pizza in their more casual establishments...
Pizza Fella on Vicar Lane has been given a rave review by a popular travel site: 'Undoubtedly the best pizza in the entire city'.
The latest component of the huge West HQ development in the western Sydney suburb of Rooty Hill – which will have a theatre, two hotels and a leisure centre once completed – opens today.
Magic happens when people share. It doesn’t matter how big or small, popular or lesser-known, established or beginner, what matters is bringing to the table that special something that each of us holds dear to our heart...
Rooty Hill’s bid to become an arts, entertainment and lifestyle precinct to be reckoned with just got a whole lot bolder with the announcement of Eat Street, a 550-seat dining destination at West HQ...
Neapolitan pizza fans can see famed pizzaiolo and Jersey Shore native Anthony Mangieri in action Saturday — not at his new restaurant in Atlantic Highlands, which is still under construction, but on NBC's "Today Show"...
Valentino Tafuri took over the family pizzeria renovating its offer based on his studies on leavening
Patron Emanuele Serpa focuses on high quality dough and toppings. The menu includes as many as seven versions of pizza Margherita
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS – It started the way things do in a small town, with someone who was strolling along First Avenue noticing the posters plastering the windows of a long-vacant building...
The pizza chef talks about his love for his native state, his pizza philosophy and why he's opening a branch of Una Pizza Napoletana in Atlantic Highlands.
It all started in Pt. Pleasant Beach for Beachwood native Anthony Mangieri...
Anthony Mangieri, one of New York City’s premier pizza makers, will return to his New Jersey roots, opening a branch of his Una Pizza Napoletana this summer in Atlantic Highlands, N.J.
Not everyone should go gluten free, but many people have discovered that consuming an abundance of gluten makes them feel less than their best. But avoiding pizza is the worst!...
"Noi Quattro is a stylish, modern Italian pizzeria in the Northern Quarter...
On a corner in Northern Quarter, Pasta Factory make their pasta in-house to be used in the restaurant or to be brought to cook yourself...
"It’s not very often I feature a guest writer on here, but if there’s two things I love it’s The Best City in the Werld™️ and Italian food, so how could I possibly pass up the opportunity to have the continental King of Kenny, the cannoli connoisseur himself, come and give us a tour of a little slice of Italy in Liverpool at Paolo & Donato’s Italian Deli and caffé...
Melbourne’s freshest pizza and mozzarella bar just got a brand new fit out in the heart of the city and we’re loving it...
Bellissimo! A new Italian food area opens in Camden Market this week...
BigA is touting a “healthy” version of the beloved pizza...
Founder and Managing Director Mattia Boldetti saw the opportunity to open his new venue on Cloth Hall Street as a slice of buona fortuna...
When his vegan mother would visit from Trieste in Northeast Italy, Lorenzo Tron found he had nothing to cook for her. They’d travel from Pascoe Vale all over the city for plant-based Italian fare, but often return home unsatisfied...
An aperitivo hour with complimentary snacks; crisp, springy pizza bases; and fried egg and pancetta paninos can be found in the new modern-industrial space from the now-classic Carlton operators.
Amazing pizza, pasta and everything in between, if you love a good Italian, these Leeds restaurants are sure to float your boat.
The Box on the Water at Ettalong is a restaurant known for its architectural beauty and stunning water views. Its reputation for quality dining is quickly catching up.
Il Caminetto has had a slew of owners since it opened 18 years ago. Now, four friends have reimagined the corner eatery and are serving umami-heavy pizza, vegan “Notella” calzones and Aperol spritz on tap.
The team at Zanini’s second outpost in St Kilda East is doing classic pizza, pasta and other plates from Sicily, Tuscany and Rome – but they’re also deep frying chunks of pizza dough and covering them in Nutella.
"In Sicily, I based most of my time in Modica. It’s a city in the province of Ragusa which is in the south part of Sicily. It’s about an hour and a half away from Catania...
"A good place for a casual night out. Suitable for small and large groups. I’ve been here a couple of times to say that their quality of pizza is superb. Pasta can be hit and miss depending on what you order...
FOR pizza guru Lorenzo Tron there would be nothing worse than a life without pizza...
IT's a common misconception that to find the best pizza you must go to Italy...
It’s been a balmy summer so far and Amanda Wragg channels her inner Italian at Buon Apps and enjoys the Mediterranean vibe.
Celebrated pizzaiolo Anthony Mangieri is back in NYC, but are his pies as good as before?
This news may be, at best, casually interesting to the average restaurant-goer in a city where the number of Pizza Restaurants Worth Caring About is well into the double digits...
Chef Daniele Uditi of Brentwood’s Pizzana has transformed Neapolitan pizza into neo-Neapolitan pizza and taken it from humble to awesome...
" If there’s one thing we Mancs seem to love, it’s an Italian...
In Brentwood, going out for dinner on a weeknight means eating among families and young professionals dressed in business casual. Opening a new restaurant here—in this coolness desert— tests the stereotypes of what attracts Angelenos to a new establishment...
Candace Nelson, the founder of Sprinkles Cupcakes, is here to satisfy your next carb craving. Having opened 20-plus Sprinkles locations since founding the cupcake bakery in Beverly Hills in 2005, her latest food venture is dedicated to something more savory: Neapolitan pizza...
“I love cupcakes. But I also love pizza,” says Sprinkles Cupcakes founder Candace Nelson...
Being a huge lover of Italian cuisine and partly Italian himself, Guy carried out the whole MiTo project until its very opening...
If it’s true you can judge a good pizzaiolo – at least the first time – by his pizza Margherita, at Frumento you can do so through an entire list of Margheritas which alone would be enough to keep the promise of offering a space to celebrate 100% pizza, made from 100% flour...
Neapolitan pizza is a classic of Italian culinary tradition. However, like other versions of Italian pizza, it has experienced a stronger and stronger “contemporary breeze”...
Lucky for us, whether we’re vegetarian or not, gone are the days when the meat-free options in a pizzeria, or those that had no animal proteins at all, offered very few alternatives on top of the still delicious Marinara...
Acknowledged among the great masters of Neapolitan pizza, but also as a great innovator and experimenter always ready to take a new challenge and offer something original while paying attention to contemporary needs...
Some places offer delicious fried food, others bruschetta or platters, the more gourmet-oriented places add some cooked dishes while others prefer not to ruin the appetite and don’t offer any starters or nibbles so that guests focus on the pizza...