The Scene:

It’s not your usual bling-ridden eatery in Porto Cervo, incognito visitors instead arriving into an elegant but hushed receiving room. Once an actual private home, today it's decorated in flashy Italian antiques with arched doorway of stacked-stone leading to the main dining room. Laid in a checkerboard of marble floors under an exposed rafter ceiling supported by bold-white columns and center fireplace; the dining room is suspended in heavy Moroccan-style chandeliers above tables encircled in maple high-back chairs with white table cloths that inevitably get splattered in the endless sauces and culinary delights to emerge from the nightly kitchen.