Amante’s Restaurant, Deerfield Beach, March 23, 2011

Amante’s Restaurant

Sitting at the bar talking to one of my favorite bartenders, Joey. He’s a great kid, not that he’s really a kid, but these days anyone under the age of forty is a kid. Joey always takes good care of me. Today he tells me to go for the osso bucco and I do, and it’s delicious. I see Bob Amante is eating the veal for his dinner, and that’s a good sign.

Amante’s is a family place and popular with locals as well as tourists. Tonight, the place is packed. Bob’s lovely wife comes over to the bar and greets me. A guy named Tony Ventura is stationed outside the door singing Italian love songs. He sings beautifully, and Bob’s customers are loving it. A couple of young ladies get up to dance. They’re good looking, and Joey and I crane our necks to watch.

Right now life is good. I got a guy taking my tournament action, and it’s going my way for a change. How’s that for luck? I think I’ll have another Chianti.[/dcs_p]

[dcs_p]This blog is written in the voice of Author, Patricia Bellomo’s main character, charismatic mobster, Louie Morelli. For more information of Bellomo’s books, please visit:  www.patriciabellomo.com