Prime 1024 is the newest and biggest 18-karat setting on the Gold Coast. It dazzles. This high-ceiling, silver-and-gray-hued extravaganza combines Long Island’s two favorite cuisines, Italian and steakhouse, with flamboyance, stylish appointments and enough glitzy chandeliers to illuminate Northern Boulevard. It’s an opulent mashup, as large as an auto dealership, with a parking area that could double as a show lot for Bentley and Maserati.

Rising at the address where long-planned and short-lived Barto fell, Prime 1024 fits comfortably on a strip of Route 25A where the Black Card competition is intense.