Subject: Italian Food and Cooking

• $13 at D’Amico’s Italian Lunch Market Café

  January 2, 2008

• For the Love of Sauerkraut

  Somehow a restaurant from the Black Forest finds its way to Midtown

  February 8, 2001

• Osso Buco Me? Osso Buco You!

  September 16, 2004

• Scoop It Up at Cricket's Creamery & Cafe

  January 15, 2009

• Missing Vowel at Luigi's Pizzeria

  October 9, 2008

• Michelangelo's Fave at Gelato Blu

  August 21, 2008

• Crash Course at Ristorante Cavour

  August 7, 2008

• The Great White Pizza

  At La Barmigiana, the decor may be tacky, but the pizza is divine

  July 25, 2002

• Simposio

  An old favorite has opened at a new location, but is its upscale Northern Italian fare still worth the price?

  January 17, 2008

• Celebration of Beer Dinner

  Chef Igor Rosi proves Italians know beer as well as wine

  January 10, 2008

• Frenchie's Italian Restaurant

  December 20, 2007

• Antica Osteria

  Rice Spaghetti

  October 4, 2007

• On Top of Spaghetti

  August 9, 2007

• Lucio's

  Pork Chop Extraordinaire

  May 3, 2007

• Nino's

  Nino's turns 30, and Houstonians want gelato with their Italian birthday cake

  March 29, 2007

• Gelato Grotto

  There's a dark cave in Rice Village where you can linger over ice cream and espresso

  June 8, 2006

• The Crudo at Bice

  A new excuse to go to the Galleria and play dress-up

  March 2, 2006

• How Sweet It Is

  Marco Wiles is knocking them dead with his new casual pizzeria in Montrose

  February 23, 2006

• Knockout Gnocchi

  Perbacco

  February 16, 2006

• Complex Cuisine

  benjy's

  August 18, 2005

• All You Have to Do Is Ask

  Carmelo's Italian Restaurant

  May 26, 2005

• Less Price, Less Spice

  Two Mandola-family restaurants provide a lesson in what we're paying for when we eat out

  April 14, 2005

• Best Gelato

  September 23, 2004

• The Cow Says "Oink"

  Which Houston restaurants are swapping pork for veal?

  January 22, 2004

• Come Back to Sorrento

  The latest addition to the "Restaurant District" on lower Westheimer is a gem

  December 11, 2003

• Houston Vice

  Vizio can't seem to keep ingredients in stock -- even on slow nights

  October 30, 2003

• Sandwich On Demand

  The District 7 Grill must have muffulettas

  October 16, 2003

• Best Gelato

  Nundini Food Store

  September 25, 2003

• Ice Cream Sandwich

  Nundini Food Store's panini are good, but their gelati are great

  May 8, 2003

• Wet Noodle

  Spaghetti marinara is pretty hard to mess up, but they've found a way at Palazzo's Italian Café

  April 10, 2003

• Insanely Good

  Josephine's Italian Ristorante

  February 13, 2003

• The Luck of the Gnocchi

  Italian-South Americans can take pride in chef Ricardo Giannotti

  November 21, 2002

• Best Neighborhood Spot in Bellaire

  Auntie Pasto's

  September 26, 2002

• Focacciaboutit

  Dolce & Freddo

  July 4, 2002

• Main Street Refuge

  The Osteria d'Aldo Martini

  March 28, 2002

• Better By Design

  Seven months and $3 million later, the eatery at the Four Seasons emerges even better than before

  March 21, 2002

• Black and White

  Arcodoro

  July 19, 2001

• Toque Off

  Viva la differènza!

  June 28, 2001

• Conditional Amore

  Best as a neighborhood joint

  January 18, 2001

• Don't Mess with the Family

  Lunch with Michael May

  October 12, 2000

• Nothing Small About It

  The expansive Maggiano's Little Italy serves portions to match

  August 3, 2000

• Big Flavors, Little Tables

  June 11, 2009

• Cafe: What's a Salumeria?

  Photo by Luiz CastroPoscol, Marco Wiles's fabulous new Italian joint on Westheimer, is the subject of this week's Cafe review. While I raved about the food I ate there, I also whined about the cured meats. Wiles calls the place an enoteca (wine bar) and salumeria (cured meat shop). But if you have ever been to a salumeria in, say, Bologna, for instance, you might find Poscol a little light on the cured meats. When I think of a salumeria, I think of an Italian deli that is full to bursting with p

  June 11, 2009

• Hollister Hospitality

  June 18, 2009

• Top 10 Ice Cream Experiences in Houston

  This week, Robb Walsh explores the vast world of Houston's ice cream parlors in the feature story, "The Scoop." In the course of writing his article, he ate more ice cream than Napoleon Bonaparte did at the Ziggy Pig in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (but didn't get a pin afterwards). He imparts the wisdom gleaned during his research below, as he shares his top ten ice cream experiences in Houston. Photos by Paul S. Howell​10. CreamWorx 8817 Hwy. 6, Missouri City 281-778-2732 CreamWorx

  August 12, 2009

• The Scoop

  August 13, 2009

• An Ice Cream, An Espresso and A Hookah

  Photo by Robb Walsh​While researching this week's ice cream feature, I went looking for Trentino Gelato's dulce de leche -- it's an Argentine-style caramel flavor gelato with big hunks of melted chocolate all through it. I called two of Trentino's biggest distributors, Cricket Creamery and Coffee Groundz, but neither one had that flavor at the moment. The only place selling the elusive caramel and chocolate gelato was a business I had never heard of -- Shisha Express & Deli on Westheimer n

  August 13, 2009

• Easy Risotto: An Oxymoron?

  Photo by Robb Walsh​My friend Paul Howell makes risotto all the time. Pumpkin risotto and mushroom risotto are two of his favorites. I have always found the labor-intensive stirring and adding of liquid required for perfect risotto a little tedious. But Paul introduced me to the pressure cooker method. For my first attempt I tried a dark purple beet risotto. I doubted that the pressure cooker could produce the creamy consistency of a really great risotto, but I was pleasantly surprised.

  September 16, 2009

• Lingering Over the Linguine

  October 1, 2009

• Fall Wine Tasting at Simposio Ristorante

  ​In 2007, Vasco Luti, owner of Simposio Ristorante, opened the restaurant's new location in an unlikely shopping center at the corner of Westheimer and Dunvale. Historically, this native Tuscan focused on Northern Italian cuisine, but last night, Simposio debuted some new wines and Southern Italian dishes at the first of many tastings. Two months ago, Chef Riccardo Palazzo-Giorgio joined Simposio Ristorante as the new executive chef. A first-generation Italian-American, Palazzo-Giorgio t

  November 12, 2009