A restaurateur returns from Italy with dreams of reproducing the trip's most memorable meals. It's a restaurant cliché old as candle-corked Chianti bottles. Yet Frankie Primo's +39, inspired by Jay Manno's tour of Rome and the Amalfi Coast, does more than avoid cliché. It provides a zone of respite and rejuvenation in a sheltered nook off of one of Buffalo's most raucous streets.

The inside dining room, done in black and cream with a wood floor, is handsome enough. But oh, that patio. Big pots of basil, an awning over the bar where negroni-sippers can shelter from the sun and while away an afternoon, Italian Pandora on the sound system. When dishes from Chef Greg Pecora's meatball-free menu started arriving, the lesson was clear: Summertime on the patio is primo Primo's.

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