Pizza is the exact balance between science and art when it comes to food. first of all, for the same ingredients (water, flour, salt, oil and yeast) you can come up with several different types of dough- Italian style, New York style, Chicago style, and everything in between, so even a small variation can land [...]
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Donato Enoteca has a wonderful event coming up this weekend in Redwood City. On Saturday, the Enoteca will open 100+ Italian wines from all over: Barolo from Piedmont, Brunello from Tuscany, and many, many more! In addition, you only pay a door fee, and then it’s all you can drink/ all you can eat! Donato [...]
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While I review a lot of places on Italy in SF, there are a handful I keep on going back to, where I can be considered somewhat of “a regular”. These are the places where I take visitors I want to impress, family who refuses to eat outside their comfort zone, and the places I [...]
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Finally, finally, finally the Peninsula is getting back a good, high-quality Italian restaurant! Ever since Donato Scotti, former chef of La Strada in Palo Alto, left to start his own venture, Donato Enoteca, we’ve been left waiting for it to open. And finally, tonight’s the night! Donato is an excellent chef, a business partner for [...]
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Piedmont is mostly known for its wines and braised meat in the culinary world. However, the small city of Cuneo reserves some pretty amazing gastronomic surprises to those who can go beyond the obvious… Cuneesi, for example, are wonderful artisan chocolates invented in Cuneo at the beginning of the 1900s, and now renowned all over [...]
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