Voted Best Italian Restaurant in Cape Coral for years.
Maria’s Italian fare is prepared using high quality ingredients. We use real butter, heavy cream, fresh chicken, real veal, extra virgin olive oil, friers use Rice Bran oil, cheese are Grande Mozzarella and Romano, all dishes are prepared to order, not pre-prepped or frozen in advance. Owned and operated since 1991 by the Giordano family.
Mariscos Azteca Mexican Seafood specialty is seafood. Mexican seafood, ceviche, whole fried fish, shrimp and filet of fish dishes.
Located in downtown Cape Coral, Dolphin Key Resort offers our guest a modern boutique hotel room in the
only building in Cape Coral still operating in its original function. “Del Prado Inn” opened in 1968 and the
outside and pool area looks the same as it then did. The Tiki has been rebuilt and is today the world’s largest
Tiki and in 2017 we finalized the renovations of the rooms. We are the perfect hotel if you don’t want to breath
and listen to Cape Coral Parkway, but still enjoy live music and walk to all the bars and restaurants of our downtown.
To my Mamma, Grace, the greatest cook I ever knew, who not only taught me the basics of good cooking, but also the importance of having family gather at the table, often. Damian Mandola
Our Gulf Coast experience is about the place where all of our ancestors came to build their lives. They called it America! And they didn’t just mean Ellis Island, or Little Italy in New York, or the North End of Boston or South Philly. They meant the whole damn place, wherever it began and ended, which of course nobody much knew. And it meant an idea too, a big promise in the air during the hard times in Sicily that if you sacrificed just about everything and pretty near worked yourself to death, you could have something a little better. Which, after all, was exactly what you did in the Old Country-without any promise at all.
So they came, ship after ship full of them. Full of us. And all the while, there were other ships filled with other people, speaking different languages. In America, we would come to know them all. And talk with them all. And wrestle with them all.
And, in some cases, cook with them all. We kept on being who we are, sure enough, but after a while we were something different, too. Something entirely new.
So give us a break here. Don’t go picking over our Grandma’s and Mamma’s and Aunt’s and Uncle’s recipes, whining about this not being the way they did it at your house. Great! We’ll go to your house, this is the way the old folks taught the young folks. This is the way we remember things tasting. And this is what it all comes down to-with generous sprinklings of life, love and oregano-for two Sicilian boys from Texas who love to cook and eat.
To my Mamma, Grace, the greatest cook I ever knew, who not only taught me the basics of good cooking, but also the importance of having family gather at the table, often. Damian Mandola
Our Gulf Coast experience is about the place where all of our ancestors came to build their lives. They called it America! And they didn’t just mean Ellis Island, or Little Italy in New York, or the North End of Boston or South Philly. They meant the whole damn place, wherever it began and ended, which of course nobody much knew. And it meant an idea too, a big promise in the air during the hard times in Sicily that if you sacrificed just about everything and pretty near worked yourself to death, you could have something a little better. Which, after all, was exactly what you did in the Old Country-without any promise at all.
So they came, ship after ship full of them. Full of us. And all the while, there were other ships filled with other people, speaking different languages. In America, we would come to know them all. And talk with them all. And wrestle with them all.
And, in some cases, cook with them all. We kept on being who we are, sure enough, but after a while we were something different, too. Something entirely new.
So give us a break here. Don’t go picking over our Grandma’s and Mamma’s and Aunt’s and Uncle’s recipes, whining about this not being the way they did it at your house. Great! We’ll go to your house, this is the way the old folks taught the young folks. This is the way we remember things tasting. And this is what it all comes down to-with generous sprinklings of life, love and oregano-for two Sicilian boys from Texas who love to cook and eat.
Voted Southwest Florida’s “Best Factory Outlet Shopping Center.” for nine consecutive years. Miromar Outlets features over 140 top designer and brand name outlets plus a wonderful array of Restaurants. I-75 Exit 123 in Estero