Ida Giotta, who founded Caffe Trieste with her husband and helped turn it into a North Beach cultural institution by ...

Giovanni Giotta motioned with his outstretched arm at one of the photos that almost entirely cover the wall of his North Beach cafe. "Do you know him?" he asked with his thick Italian accent. He ...

Giovanni Giotta motioned with his outstretched arm at one of the photos that almost entirely cover the wall of his North Beach cafe. "Do you know him?" he asked with his thick Italian accent. He ...

After Venice shunned large cruise ships, many began to dock 100 miles east in Trieste. Residents now worry that tourists will overrun their city, too. Cruise ships dock beside the Piazza Unità ...

The regular Saturday concert at Caffe Trieste in North Beach was already under way when the cafe's founder, Giovanni Giotta — known to regular customers simply as Papa Gianni — arrived. He climbed ...

Caffe Trieste has served San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood for 65 years, calling itself “the first espresso coffee house established… Ida Pantaleo Zoubi (back second left) with her family ...

Trieste doesn’t have anything on the scale of the canals of Venice, but it does have a Grand Canal in its city center. Photo Credit: Brittany Chrusciel A “second city” is generally considered to be ...