Alberto's on Fifth

Torino-born Alberto Varetto created a sensation as the original chef at Sale e Pepe on Marco Island. He left several years ago to open his name-brand place along dining hot spot Fifth Avenue South. The sensation continues in a sleek, sand-toned dining room that spills out onto the sidewalk. Using house-made ingredients such as sausage, pasta and sauces, Chef Alberto creates a select menu of authentic Italian dishes such as yellow tomato soup with shrimp, pasta with pesto and jumbo lump crab, risotto with lobster and calamari, Chilean sea bass with wild mushrooms, lamb chops with mango mint sauce, and tiramisu.