"italian restaurants" news and stories

Just last week, I posted about FoodCandy, a social networking service for foodies. Today I came across DueSpaghi.it or 2Spaghi, a social network of sorts where users create profiles and post recommendations for restaurants around Italy. None of it is in English, so hopefully your Italian language skills are good. Mine aren't, and so far I've just been reading pages translated by Google. I know, not always accurate, but at least I can get a feel for the service. Users can post comments on restaurants and create a roster of their favorite places, it seems. They have a blog and a small wiki that explains the service. There are also tag clouds of popular search terms, mainly for regions and specialties. Right now, the service appears to have about 150 users.

Tanino Ristorante Bar in Westwood, California had horribly condescending service from the maitre d' who spoke not a single word to us to the server who was as cold as ice. However, I had to give them credit for putting two incredibly delicious things together - creamy dreamy risotto and sensuous, soft meatballs drowning in a sweet and spicy sauce. It made me want to sing, "On top of ri-soooooo-tto, all covered with cheese..." then rush right home and try making it myself.