If you're going to lay claim to the terms "authentic" and "Italian" when talking cuisine, it helps when your bloodstock is bona fide, too. That's the case with Sicilian-born Davide Valenti, who has been at the helm of Davide Italian Café for the past five years after previously working for more than a decade at other Marco restaurants.

And before that, around the country. "It was my dream to come to America when I was a young boy," says Valenti, whose baritone, melodious Italian accent is as much a part of the café as the Italian décor, indeed the Italian cuisine, and certainly the joie de vivre that resonates throughout the café.

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