It’s common in any family business for the younger generation to add its own touch of modern style to the operation when the torch is eventually passed. At longtime neighborhood favorite Gaetano’s Ristorante, sustained success means finding the perfect blend of familiar tradition and new, exciting offerings.

Patriarch Gaetano Palmeri, who passed in 2019, moved his decades-old Italian restaurant from Calabasas, California, to Henderson in June 2002. It’s been one of the southeast valley’s most beloved eateries ever since, and maintaining that reputation has been the mission of Nick Palmeri and his wife Sarah well before the couple purchased Gaetano’s from Nick’s mother in 2021.