RAGU – Restaurant

Italian dining room in a 19th-century building in Palmetto's historic old district, named for the meat-sauce tradition and run on the creed that passion is the key ingredient in everything. The menu moves properly through antipasti, primi, secondi, and dolci in the full Italian sequence, evenings only from 4:30, closed Mondays. It suits Palmetto date nights with structural integrity, four-course traditionalists, old-building romantics, and Manatee County diners who want their ragù argued over in the right order. The historic-district address gives the sauce a set of walls worthy of it.

Cuisine: Restaurant