Trattoria Bella Cibo

Executive chef Tommy Valdes sure knows how to shill – the CIA grad and author is nearly obsessed with getting on Food Network, a fact you’ll find plastered all over his Margate Italian restaurant. Hey, you can’t knock a guy for having lofty aspirations. His menu shares the same ambition, even if it sometimes comes […]

Trattoria Pizzeria Panaretto

This sunny Italian restaurant with exposed brick and a simple, spacious dining room offers a number of $9.99 lunch specials daily. For that price, you get a house garden or caesar salad with crisp croutons, a soda or iced tea, and one of a dozen specialty panini or Italian dishes like lasagna or pizza. We […]

Valentino’s Cucina Italiana

The already upscale Valentino’s Cucina Italiana has received an upgrade. The restaurant moved from a small storefront in one of the many shopping centers that line Fort Lauderdale’s South Federal Highway to shiny new space a few blocks north. The food, as innovative and trendy as ever — venison tartare, grilled sardines, ham and egg […]

Valentino’s Cucina Italiana

Valentino’s Northern Italian menu is not something your Nona would have recognized, with its beet purées and warm goat Brie. Trendy specials — whole bronzino; grouper with rock shrimp; turbot with lobster; skirt steak rollatini; a stuffed zucchini blossom appetizer or a special salad made with corn and mushrooms; pasta with lobster sauce, hot chilies, […]