These restaurants distinguish with service, atmosphere and — most of all — with food that honors the bedrock principles of Italian cuisine.

It is, admittedly, a dream job. I get to travel and eat delicious food, all in the name of work. I’ve been a food and travel writer for a decade, and a very enthusiastic eater for half a century. That ...

US chefs been creating a distinctively American-accented cuisine, not least in California where some of the finest wines in ...