I gave up on real Italian food in general down here but I did have one
good Italian meal in Clearwater in a little mom and pop place in the
strip mall just north of the bridge.
The veal parm was pretty much like the Roma Inn in Kingston NY.
Pizza was never really a big thing with me tho.
We have two nice Italian restaurants operated by the same family, one in
Dunkirk and the other in Prince Frederick. Same menus. Husband runs one,
wife runs the other. Staffs alternate. Really good pizza, plus many
traditional and not traditional Italian dishes. The restaurant selection
was so crappy when we moved here years ago that had it not been for the
aforementioned Italian restaurant, we might have looked elsewhere.
Not up to New Haven standards of food in Italian restaurants, but,
nonetheless, nice.