54 h. ago I tried new Italian restaurant in Edinburgh design hotel and found pizza to die for

This new Italian restaurant opened in Edinburgh earlier this month and forget any misgivings about it being a hotel restaurant, it’s well worth a visit says Rosalind Erskine.

Society

3 d. ago ‘Spirited and sumptuous’: why Big Night is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers recommending comfort watches is a tribute to 1996’s charming restaurant-set comedy drama“Life is meals,” observed the novelist James Salter. Big Night, Stanley Tucci’s spirited and sumptuous indie from 1996, is a film about one big meal that asks a few big questions about life, including: What is the cost of the American dream? What does food allow us to say to each other that words can’t? And what right does Marc Anthony, of all people, have to deliver one of the most charming non-speaking performances in any movie since the silent era?Big Night follows two Italian immigrants who run a failing restaurant in 1950s New Jersey. Ambitious, high-strung Secondo (Tucci, practically hirsute) is the manager, while his brother Primo (Tony Shalhoub) is the madman in the kitchen, a purist who derides the local clientele as philistines and has begun to doubt the wisdom of coming to the US in the first place. Continue reading...

Politics

4 d. ago Man screaming 'you have been sh****** my bird' burst into Italian restaurant and attacked love rival

The 37-year-old admitted causing grievous bodily harm to another man who required stitches to his forehead and ear

Events

4 d. ago Carlos Alcaraz gets a pizza the action with fans as defending Wimbledon champion dines out in London ahead of men's final clash at SW19

The 22-year-old Spanish star tucked into a hefty gluten-free, cheese-topped pizza in an Italian restaurant in south-west London on Friday night.

Sport

1 week ago Manchester Italian institution to close third restaurant in space of three years

'We’re sadly saying goodbye'

Politics

2 w. ago Final decision made as bid to revamp old pub rejected over parking fears

More than 200 cannabis plants were seized from the site by the authorities

Politics

3 w. ago Italian restaurant in heart of Covent Garden blames Rachel Reeves for 'difficult decision' to close

Margot Italian on Great Queen Street will serve its last customers this weekend after nine years of trading

Politics

3 w. ago Every Man Utd player bar one put up for sale in club icon's drastic transfer action plan

Cash-strapped Manchester United have to make sales to fund Ruben Amorim's revamp of their struggling squad and Red Devils legend Teddy Sheringham has made clear that drastic measures need to be taken

Sport

4 w. ago Former Italian restaurant in Greater Manchester to be revamped into gastropub by top chef

The 18th-century building is going back to its roots

Society

4 w. ago How a 'severe blow' to William's head signalled the end of Prince Charles and Princess Diana's turbulent marriage

Princess Diana was enjoying lunch with a friend on June 3, 1991, at her favourite Italian restaurant in Knightsbridge when their conversation was interrupted by her bodyguard.

Politics