Florence’s Cantinetta Antinori Gets the New York City Pop-Up Treatment

A famous Florentine restaurant, Cantinetta Antinori, comes to New York for a brief time next month… Mondrian SoHo, one of New York City’s more high-spirited hotels, turns to Florence for inspiration for its first-ever pop-up restaurant. From October 3 through 6, diners can enjoy a selection of Cantinetta Antinori’s signature dishes in the hotel’s inaugural pop-up enterprise, which will be …

An Italian Wine & Movie Night in Denver

I didn’t even know Elizabeth Montana of DreamItalia and her husband the famous Denver sushi master Yasu Kizaki were longtime readers of Dream of Italy when I attended the Italian Wine and Movie Night they co-organized last summer at Balistreri Vineyards in Denver. It was simply the best event I have been to in the two years I have lived …

Attend the Italian Life Expo in Portland, Maine Next Week

The Italians are invading Portland, Maine next week! Don’t worry, it is a friendly invasion for the first Italian Life Expo. Held at Portland’s waterfront Ocean Gateway Center, the festival will host exhibits on food, wine, and travel opportunities in Italy. Six sessions over the weekend will focus on wine tasting, travel, and culinary products. The event is sponsored in …

Keep Up with All Things Italian in DC

The nation’s capital has much to offer for Italophiles and CiaoDC.com aims to be the go-to source for all things Italian in DC. The brainchild of public relations consultant and third generation Italian-American Alyssa Ciccone, CiaoDC serves as both an educational and promotional online portal to the Italian/Italian American presence in Washington, with particular emphasis on culture, art, language, food, …

New Italian Market on Maryland’s Eastern Shore

There’s nothing you want more when you return from an Italian trip than to continue to eat as well as you did in Italy. That task isn’t made any easier by the fact that truly great Italian food stores can be few and far between when you get outside of America’s major cities. If you’re anywhere near Maryland’s Eastern Shore, …

DaVinci’s Drawings on Tour in the U.S.

On Friday, the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings from the Biblioteca Reale in Turin, opened at the Birmingham Museum of Art and will continue through November 9. The show explores da Vinci’s most celebrated notebooks, the 18-page Codex on the Flight of Birds, and 11 important drawings. This is the first time the items are being shown outside of Italy. …

Join Dream of Italy’s Editor This Sunday in Maryland

Not only does September mark the sixth anniversary of Dream of Italy — and we’re celebrating by offering a $15 discount on our newsletter subscriptions — it is the fifth anniversary of Bella Italia, that wonderful store of all things Italian in Bethesda, MD! I’m helping them celebrate this Sunday, September 7th by being at the store to hand out …