Old School Italian - Vito in Santa Monica

 Vito Ristorante rests nonchalantly on Ocean Park Blvd, just a few blocks from my new apartment. Opened in 1980 and maintained by 3 Neapolitan brothers Vito, Roberto and Giovanna Somma, Vito is classic old school Italian. Cozy tables and red leather booths bring patrons close together as the Italian waiters bustle around in bow ties and cravats. With accents so thick I couldn't discern "medium rare" from some intelligible Sicilian word, the servers definitely added to the Southern Italian mood.

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