Il Casale
Photo: Mike Ritter
At Il Casale, chef Dante de Magistris (dante) draws inspiration from his childhood summers spent in Southern Italy for small plates and family-style dinners served in a renovated 1899 Belmont firehouse, where handcrafted Vermont wood tables and hand-blown Venetian glass lanterns evoke the restaurant’s name (it means ‘rural home’); the dining room features a communal table overlooking the open kitchen, and there is sidewalk seating in the warmer months.
50 Leonard St.; 617-209-4942