Joe Montana Digs Steve Martorano's Sunday Gravy (Photos)

Where do you go when you're a legendary NFL quarterback in search of a good meal? If you said some sport bar you'd be dead wrong -- especially if you were Joe Montana. The NFL great and three-time Super Bowl MVP stopped by Cafe Martorano with friends last evening for...

By Laine Doss

March 26, 2014

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Where do you go when you're a legendary NFL quarterback in search of a good meal? If you said some sport bar you'd be dead wrong -- especially if you were Joe Montana.

The NFL great and three-time Super Bowl MVP stopped by Cafe Martorano with friends last evening for some down-home South Philly-style Italian cuisine.

Montana and friends dined on macaroni carbonara, Sunday gravy, pork chops, baked clams, and plenty of red wine before posing with the restauranteur/cook and paying him a compliment, saying, " "I've dined all over the world, but there's no place on Earth like Café Martorano."

Cafe Martorano is Fort Lauderdale's "it" place for sports legends, celebrities, and fans of a good meatball to converge. In the past, Michael Phelps, Tom Brady, Ne-Yo, and Mario Lopez have all enjoyed dinner at this Ft. Lauderdale staple.

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Laine Doss is the food and spirits editor for Miami New Times, covering the restaurant and bar scene in South Florida. She has been featured on Cooking Channel’s Eat Street and Food Network’s Great Food Truck Race. Doss won an Alternative Weekly award for her feature on what it’s like to wait tables. In a previous life, she appeared off-Broadway and shook many a cocktail as a bartender at venues in South Florida and New York City. When she’s not writing, you can find Doss running some marathon then celebrating at the nearest watering hole.

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