Pasta

Dundas West's burgeoning strip shows no signs of slowing down. Apparently the hipsters of the city really do like to spend their hard-earned cash on copious amounts of gourmet grub and hand-crafted cocktails. Needless to say, Cafe+Bar+Pasta will likely clean house now that it's open for business

It's no surprise that Montreal is home to some of Canada's best Italian food (it's a foodie city, after all). Check out three of our all-time fave spots for some of that deliciously simple cuisine. Molto bene!

Borgo Trattoria is fairly new restaurant in Calgary, serving up some good ol' family style Italian dishes that are guaranteed to make you salivate. Read more in today's review

Lovers of Montreal's Joe Beef, like yours truly, head over to this culinary playground as often as we can. And come mid-October, we'll taking a piece of it home with us when The Art of Living According to Joe Beef hits store shelves. That's right, one of our favourite restaurants is launching a cookbook. Notable, no?

With a rather tempestuous summer so far (and a few too many grey days), our minds turned to cozying up with a glass of vino and flavourful plate of pasta. We’ve (happily) sleuthed around the city in search of our comfort food picks – Italiano-style – and came up with these notable eateries

When it comes to authentic Italian pizza from Naples at a bargain, Pizzeria Napoletana is the most notable in its class. In a no frills, almost cafeteria-style venue in the heart of Little Italy lays one of the most famous pizza parlours in the whole city of Montreal