The Taste of Italy is a one day festival of Italian culture and cuisine benefiting the Italian American Museum. The event features the LA’s top Italian and Italian American restaurants and wineries, offering a delicious and diverse array of culinary delights. The festival also features live musical entertainment at a beautiful outdoor plaza on historic Olvera Street.
The event will feature 40+ of the area’s best Italian restaurants, 100+ premium wines, live entertainment and chef demonstrations. Guests may also test their skills with a game of bocce in the Birra Moretti Bocce Court.
Locando del Lago dishing out their tortoloni – Photo Credit Foodiamo
Drago Centro will feature their house-made garganelli pasta with fennel pollen and lamb ragú. West Hollywood’s, Prova Pizzeria with serve genuine Neapolitan pizza baked in a traditional wood-burning oven. Other restaurants to note include: Celestino Ristorante, Il Fornaio, Locanda del Lago, Primo Italia and Valentino.
Make sure you save room for dessert as some of the creations include: panna cotta, frittelle (cream puffs), and more mouth-watering sweets from Carrara Pastries’ own Food Network star, Damiano Carrara. Black Market Gelato will have samples of their soy free, gluten free and all natural gelato. They were a recent US finalist of the prestigious Gelato World Tour!
Approximately 100 world-renowned wines and spirits will be served. August Ridge Vineyards, Birra Moretti, Lemoncocco, Malfy Gin, Pallini Limoncello, Peroni, Prunotto Wine and San Antonio Winery to name a few. Be sure to look for the “Road of Wine”. They will present their much anticipated 2013 Barolo from Agricola Colle Belvedere/Gian Piero Marrone—a 95-point wine according to Decanter World Wine.
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- FOOD5 : $5 off General Admission Tickets (= $55)
- FOOD20 : $20 off Premiere Tickets (= $105)
9th Annual Taste of Italy
Oct. 14, 2017
Pico House, 424 N Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
http://italianhall.org/taste-of-italy-los-angeles/