Pistola is the land of big meat and handmade pasta

Have you tasted the minestra nel sacco at Rossoblu, more or less a bowl of chicken soup with dumplings cooked in a cloth bag? It’s a pretty common dish in the area around Bologna, and you’ll find lots of recipes for it in Italian cooking...

Los Angeles has never been rich in the sort of red-sauce Italian restaurants so common on the other coast, but it has always been notable for the other kind: restaurants in which Italian cooking and the idea of fine dining were not incompatible....

It’s pleasant, Saturday brunch at Scopa Italian Roots, a bit of calm compared with the roar of nearby Abbot Kinney Boulevard. The filtered sunlight in the double-height dining room feels like late afternoon, although it is just after noon. Big...

Steak and frites. Photo by Mercedes Del Real Let’s just say you’re actually looking for a restaurant that serves the cuisine of Northern Italy. You’d be expecting dishes featuring rich cream sauces rather than the bright tomato ones popular in the...

It’s Sunday evening at Mezzaluna, and the regulars have already assembled around the restaurant’s L-shaped bar. A confident, attractively dressed Corona del Mar crowd sips moscato and grappa while nibbling on some of Orange County’s most authentic...