Donatellis

To help celebrate the grand opening of Frattalone's Ace Hardware, we took our secret recipes to the street and served lunch to our new neighbors as well as the surrounding community. We met a lot of new friends and got reacquainted with some old ones. Overall the day was a hit. Good weather. Good friends. Outstanding food. What more could you ask for? See for yourself...

On November 3rd, 2008, Donatelli's was featured on the hit TV show Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives. The show aires on the Food Network and is hosted by food fashionista Guy Fieri.

We had a blast during filming and captured quite a few priceless moments. Check out our gallery of photos...

Food Network's Guy Fieri has been all over the Twin Cities this year: Bryant Lake Bowl, The Weinery, Town Talk Diner, Victor's 1959 Café, Emily's Lebanese Deli, The Modern, and, in an episode re-airing Friday at 8:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., Donatelli's in White Bear Lake. I had heard of Donatelli's, but not in a way which brought any sort of formed image to mind, so Fieri introduced me to a restaurant in my own backyard (or at least on the White Bear-Mahtomedi border).

Read the whole article at the mspmag.com

WHITE BEAR LAKE — Donatelli's soon will be known far outside its loyal local customer base.

The restaurant is being featured on "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives," a Food Channel program. A crew from the show was in town recently for two days of nearly constant filming.

It all started when a former local resident now working as a producer on the show was in town eating at Donnatelli's — as she often had growing up.
Thinking the establishment would fit the show, she sought out Trish Appleby, one of the restaurant's operators who was working at the time.

Read the whole article at the presspubs.com