(Hotel restaurants are not eligible in this category)
Best Italian Restaurant
OLIVE GARDEN
Multiple locations
Voters are sold on the unlimited breadsticks and salad refills as well as the Americanized Italian pasta dishes. It's also a kid-friendly, lively environment with decent prices, large servings and no illegible daily specials scratched onto a chalkboard. Its fare is consistently prepared which, in this day and age, often is enough to generate hordes of loyal customers. Family-owned Ferraro's finished in second place.
Our Pick:
FERRARO'S
Multiple locations
Gino Ferraro's original outlet on Flamingo Road earned his reputation for authenticity and moderately priced Italian fare by pleasing customers, including showroom headliners, with a casual ambience and good wines. Sauces are fresh yet resonate with slow-cooked patience that marks a difference from most of the rest of the field.
