Il Nettuno

Frommer's Review

This is the most elaborate, best-managed, and most appealing Italian restaurant on either side of the island, coping gracefully with a cosmopolitan, international crowd. It was established by a seasoned Italian restaurateur, Raymon Losito, whose career included a 25-year stint at a French restaurant in Washington, D.C., where he developed a deep attachment to the Washington Redskins football team, whose banners and memorabilia decorate the walls of the restaurant's bar. It's a great watering hole, outfitted in the colors of the Italian flag, and drawing a fervent crowd of fans for U.S. football games.

Meals are served on a large, rambling wooden veranda that the owners bravely refurbish after hurricanes. It serves the best blackened tuna we've ever had, as well as grilled portobello mushrooms, mussels in white-wine sauce, filet of sea wolf cooked in parchment, filet of grouper encrusted with pistachio nuts, and a worthy version of lobster risotto. The pastas are superb. There's an especially worthwhile version of sea bass baked in rock salt, prepared for a minimum of two diners.

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