Italy In SF

If you are like me, you will mix up Pinocchio and Pulcinella, enter the wrong restaurant and have an impending sense of doom as you take a look at the sad pizzas coming out of the electric oven. Thankfully, I have friends who call me and tell me I am in the wrong spot! So, [...]

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Vinicio Capossela is my favorite, favorite songwriter/ singer. I have been to every single concert he has held in my neighborhood since 1994- I am a passionate fan, and Camera a Sud was my first dance with my husband. I don’t want to say I feel like the number one fan, but I kind of [...]

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I have never been so taken with food-centered events like this past weekend. The FoodBuzz Festival was in San Francisco, filled with chances to meet fellow bloggers and eat delicious food, and Donato Enoteca held its first Enoteca 100 event, where more than 100 different varietals of Italian wines were opened for tasting in Redwood [...]

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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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A place with hanging prosciutti and salami? Well, this is sure an attention catcher! So Amy and I headed out to the hippest new address for San Francisco, Mint Plaza, to check out the latest Italian restaurant, simply named 54 Mint.

Simple decor accented by hanging edible pieces, and a lovely outdoor patio make for a [...]

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