Franco's Cafe has returned, just down the street from its original location. Big sellers are homemade cheese gnocchi, shrimp scampi over linguini, veal parmigiana, and sea bass with caramelized onions, tomatoes, cured black olives and basil. Open for dinner from 4 p.m. daily, lunch from noon Saturday and Sunday. With the enclosed porch, deck bar, ocean views, and spectacular sunsets, this waterside restaurant is immensely popular with the locals. The ever-changing menu offers seasonal fish from around the world plus meat and poultry favorites.
Lunch consists of such fare as pastrami, corned beef, and Middle Eastern salads.
Call for summer hours. Appetizers include portobello mushroom stuffed with lump crabmeat and Gorgonzola and tomato basil artichoke soup. S. Washington Ave. Good, hearty servings of prime rib, fresh fish, chicken, and a whale of a crab cake. Open from 11 a.m. daily with a late-night bar menu.