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For a food that begins with just flour, water or sometimes eggs, there are infinite variations of pasta. So what happens when you convene a panel of five Italian cuisine [...]

For a food that begins with just flour, water or sometimes eggs, there are infinite variations of pasta. So what happens when you convene a panel of five Italian cuisine [...]

The ocher walls at Santo Palato are hung with loud, Futurist-style posters embodying the stylized Cubism of 1920s Italian art. This design scheme is more than a trendy aesthetic choice [...]

The Ostiense district fills a milelong wedge in southern Rome between the Tiber River, Fascist-era rail lines and the third-century Aurelian Walls. Once a buzzing industrial hub, the zone's broad [...]

Byline: KATIE PARLA The Ostiense district fills a milelong wedge in southern Rome between the Tiber River, Fascist-era rail lines and the third-century Aurelian Walls. Once a buzzing industrial hub, [...]

¡There are plenty of exciting places to go this year, but there also will be new ways to get there. Here are a few of our favorites. Heli-Skiing On the [...]

Rates ¡Starting at 220 euros, (about $267, at $1.21 to the euro) for a Deluxe room. Basics ¡D.O.M. is a luxury boutique hotel in what was once a 17th-century palace, [...]

Byline: KATIE PARLA D.O.M., a luxury boutique hotel in Rome, was once a 17th-century palace, then a Claretian monastery and more recently Ministry of Justice offices. The hotel, at 131 [...]

Competition among pizzerias is fierce in Italy's undisputed pizza capital, Naples. For decades, institutions have reigned, attracting loyal admirers with their cheap pies and no-frills atmosphere. But recently, that pre-eminence [...]

Byline: KATIE PARLA ROME -- Artichoke gelato, tomato-basil sorbet, carrot granita. The list may seem more suited to a creative restaurant menu than a gelateria. But Rome's top artisanal producers [...]

Artichoke gelato, tomato-basil sorbet, carrot granita. The list may seem more suited to a creative restaurant menu than a gelateria. But Rome's top artisanal producers have turned to savory flavors [...]

Pizza-making runs deep in the Sorbillo family DNA: dozens of members of this Neapolitan clan have become renowned pizzaioli in their home city and beyond. Perhaps the best known is [...]

At 9:30 on a Wednesday night, it was three deep at the bar at Rustic Canyon, a wine bar and restaurant in Santa Monica. The dining room was buzzing; outside, [...]

With Caribbean Sea views and a soundtrack of lapping waves, it's hard to deny the appeal of the Malecn, the esplanade in the village of Esperanza that traces Puerto Real, [...]

After exhausting themselves at Rome's sprawling, crowded St. Peter's Basilica and Vatican Museums, many visitors grab the nearest taxi and flee. But just a few blocks north of the Vatican [...]

THE 2011 installation at Metropoliz (Via Prenestina, 913), a former salami factory in Rome's eastern periphery, had all the markings of an insular art-world creation. It was planned by Giorgio [...]

La Barrique, a wine bar in Rome's Monti district, has improved with age. It opened in 2001 with a fairly basic wine list, but grew more and more sophisticated, ultimately [...]

JUST steps from Carnaby Street, patrons line up to sample pulled pork and beef ribs and wash them down with bourbon and Pabst Blue Ribbon in a dining room that [...]

FOR more than two decades, the glass-domed Air Terminal languished beside the rail lines of Rome's Stazione Ostiense in a state of abandonment. Squatters occupied its hollow vertical spaces, and [...]

UPSHOT A glamorous retreat owned by Francis Ford Coppola in the heart of a down-to-earth southern Italian city. Garden rooms start at 360 euros, about $435, at $1.20 to the [...]

AN image can call to mind a place, and occasionally a sound does, too. And, of course, so do scents. One enduring memory of my trip last summer to Bozcaada, [...]

Last May, three gunshots ripped through Nathanial Zimet's body, and, in a sense, the whole New Orleans food community. The young chef, who had transformed food truck fame into a [...]

FOR more than a decade, the Flaminio neighborhood in Rome was a work in progress. This plot of land hugging the Tiber was the object of urban renewal plans that [...]

Chiswick, with its quiet streets and suburban serenity, seems an unlikely place for one of London's most innovative restaurants. Indeed, when Mikael Jonsson, a Swedish-born chef, opened Hedone, his first [...]

THE classics of Roman Jewish cuisine were born from poverty and persecution. For nearly 300 years, the city's Jews were confined by the pope to a narrow strip of flood-prone [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED In September and October, the produce stalls in Mercat de Santa Caterina, a thriving marketplace in Barcelona's La Ribera district, display heaps of rovellons, local autumnal mushrooms. Called [...]

THE UPSHOT Most hotels on the Bosporus are luxury affairs set in magnificent, palatial complexes. But the 23-room House Hotel Bosphorus, which opened in May, offers a fresh and accessible [...]

ARRIVING by ferry or hydrofoil at Ponza, an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, the boat trims the island's eastern coast, a vista of sheer tuff cliffs bleached white by the [...]

IT'S an age-old truth -- albeit one scientifically untested -- that shopping builds hunger. Here are four restaurants in department stores (and one shopping complex) around Europe that are worth [...]

In a spruced-up former garage on a bleak section of the Via Prenestina in Rome, diners use injera, the traditional Ethiopian sourdough bread, to scoop up richly spiced stews. Is [...]

BASICS In Rome, a city known for its expensive and cramped accommodations, Babuino 181 is a welcome addition. This 14-room boutique hotel, set in a 19th-century building recently renovated by [...]

GAINING entry to Rome's archaeological sites is never a sure thing. Long affected by collapses, paltry budgets and red tape, historic sites must often limit access, even to places that [...]

Despite its name and location, Tuna, which opened in October 2008 on the Via Veneto, is not your typical tourist trap. On the contrary, few tourists make it to the [...]

AT Urbana 47, a restaurant and cafe in the Monti district of Rome, everything is for sale. The light fixtures, the used furniture, and the ingredients used in each dish [...]

High As Rome's dining habits have evolved, chefs are parlaying their personal charisma and gastronomic abilities into successful ventures inspired by their native regions. Last June,Filippo La Mantia, a self-taught [...]

AMSTERDAM HIGH Bridges is a pretty obvious name for a fish restaurant in Amsterdam. The Dutch city has hundreds of them spanning its famous canals. But Bridges, a dining spot [...]

During Holy Week, multitudes descend on the Vatican, and therefore Rome. Beginning on Palm Sunday (March 28) and continuing until Easter Sunday (April 4), the already numerous springtime visitors will [...]