Plate offers something slightly different to the Brookside neighborhood. The year-old bistro is owned and operated by Christian and Andrea Joseph, who also own the adjacent Season + Square, a spice shop specializing in small-batch foods and culinary goods, and the newly opened wine cellar, Taste.

The restaurant brands itself as "Italiano moderno," a mostly apt description of the food on chef Brian Mehl's small, seasonally rotating menu, which features small plate appetizers that share space with pasta, salads and entrées.

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