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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

All Italian all the time

Today's email announces that Le Cirque is rising again in New York City in May, in a new building on E. 58th. You can't keep an Italian restaurant down, it seems. The Boston culinary landscape, gets more Italian all the time, too. Sorellina, Marco, the soon-to-be Dante,

a little place in Roslindale Village called Salute. One suspects that even Steve DiFillippo's restaurant Avila in Park Square -- scheduled to open later in the spring -- will feel a lot more Italian than the other Mediterrean cuisines it's slated to represent.
Success breeds more of it, obviously, and "Italian" brings in diners. The other trigger is steakhouse, and those concepts now are twinned to make the rather curious concept of Italian steakhouse. Somehow I don't think the trattorias in the Old Country have caught on to this one.

Posted by Alison Arnett at 02:17 PM
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