MARIANA'S THE STINKY ROSE – Restaurant

A Hernando Italian kitchen on Forest Ridge Boulevard that leans hard into garlic — the name is a promise, not a joke. The menu runs deep through pasta: pasta puttanesca is flagged as the house specialty, alongside trenette quattro formaggi, penne barese with sausage and broccoli rabe, penne alla vodka with prosciutto and linguine alle vongole. Chicken comes fiorentina, piccata, francese or marsala; there are shrimp scampi and seafood italiano for the table that wants shellfish, plus specialty pizzas from margherita to buffalo chicken. Start with bruschetta or the cold antipasto. Generous, old-school, unapologetically Italian-American.

Cuisine: Restaurant