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Some places are memorable by lending themselves to haughty taughty pretenses with in your face food presentations. Others are memorable for their wild, exotic ingredients and others are memorable as the "cool, hip place for 20 somethings." Alaine's Osteria (https://www.yelp.com/biz/alaines-osteria-palmetto-bay) is none of these things, it is much better, a comfortable, wholesome, happy place where you can go to relax and enjoy good tasting comfort food.

The restaurant has a nice warm feel to it, dark wood and warm colors decorate the establishment a bar, mostly empty divides the restaurant from its more romantic, quieter dining area to the more social side where the bar is, where there are  several 1-2 person tables.

Kobe meatball in porcini broth, topped with melted mozzaralla

Short rib agnolotti in creamy porcini sauce -- a ravioli filled with shredded short rib and riccotta