Providence beat out New York City, to be named the second best city for pizza in the United States by Travel + Leisure Magazine. more

Two Providence-area chefs – Nemo Bolin and Benjamin Sukle – are in the running for Food & Wine’s list of the 10 most brilliant up-and-coming chefs. more

The number of restaurants on Providence’s Federal Hill has not changed very much in the last decade or two. But there is a resurgence on the Hill’s Restaurant Row these days that is noticeable. New places have started up, in spaces where restaurants had been and in a few spots where they had not. more

The Eat Drink RI Festival is set to become the state’s first three-day local food festival when it heads to downtown Providence from April 19-21, Dave Dadekian, founder of Eat Drink RI, a regional culinary website, announced Friday. more

PROVIDENCE – The Johnson & Wales University Culinary Arts Museum will close for more than year beginning May 20 for a comprehensive inventory, the university announced Monday. The museum will … more

“We’ll take a booth, please.” According to restaurant designers, one of the appeals of booths is that they can create perceived barriers between us and the rest of the diners in the restaurant. A booth can give at least the perception of privacy. The conventional wisdom from the other side of the table is that restaurant guests want to be able to carry on private conversations and enjoy their own personal space, even when they’re out in public. more

Three Rhode Island chefs and two restaurants have been named semifinalists for the 2013 James Beard Foundation’s restaurant and chef awards. more

Seth Resler, former program director at WBRU and founder of Mystery Meet, a San Francisco –based social dining community that brings together culinary enthusiasts for meals at a mystery location, will launch Taste Trekkers, a food tourism conference, in Providence this fall. more

The Ninety Nine Restaurants located in North Attleboro and Foxboro recently raised $11,737 to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket. more

“We brought home a silver but it should have been gold,” lamented Joseph Leonardi, executive chef of the Somerset Club in Boston. The competitor was reflecting on a successful performance, but the memory of finishing second overrode his triumph. Leonardi was back at his alma mater, Johnson & Wales University, on Jan. 16 to be honored as a distinguished visiting chef. But what everyone wanted to talk to Leonardi about was his stint as captain of Team USA. The team competed in the Culinary Olympics last summer in Erfurt, Germany, that was held just after those London athletic games, which received just a bit more media coverage. more