For the menu, chef Steven Mendez, who years back worked at Italian Village’s former main floor restaurant Vivere, was given free rein. “We needed to keep one foot in Italy, but the other foot ...

And on that front, Italian Village succeeds. The menu is marked by a wide entr e selection and a lot of the dishes are in the $10-$15 price range.

Walk up the stairs of The Village off Monroe, you can feel its history. Its sign has become synonymous with old Italy and the Capitanini family. Alfredo Capitanini opened Italian Village back in ...

Italian Village’s annual Christmas Eve prix fixe Feast of the Seven Fishes is steeped in love and the traditions of the downtown restaurant founder Alfredo Capitanini’s relatives.

Capitanini’s great-grandfather, Alfredo Capitanini, opened Italian Village’s first restaurant, The Village, in 1927. He had immigrated from a town in Tuscany a few years before, ...

According to an update on the Restaurant Impossible site, Italian Village is reporting an 18% increase in sales since Irvine’s visit. But $500,000 is a whole lot of debt to pay off, ...