BEST ITALIAN RESTAURANT CAMPIELLO: Campiello was designed to mirror upscale Italian restaurants in Italy. When you walk into Campiello—the open-air patio with a gorgeous estate fountain or the lounge area—you immediately feel as though you've stepped from Rome's Via Venito into one of the city's most fashionable restaurants with authentic Italian fare. Wood oven pizzas and sumptuous appetizers are a prelude to the delicious entrees such as rigatoni with braised asparagus and portabella mushrooms or risotto with shrimp, shredded radishes, parsley chive butter and lemon. There's much more, and by all standards it is delizioso.

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Campiello's, which mirrors the more upscale restaurants of Italy with its fine cuisine, got the nod from Gulfshore Life readers as one of this area's two best dining spots serving authentic Italian fare.