I was thrilled to find an exception to this rule in Amereno's Little Italy. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that Amereno's is the best Italian restaurant in town. First, portion size. Italian-American food tends towards antipasti large enough to share and pasta dishes as main courses. Another difference regards geography.
Most Italian restaurants are region-specific.
You won't, for example, find many restaurants that serve veal Milanese in Rome, just a few hours away by train. When they migrated to the United States, they brought these multi-regional recipes with them and found willing audiences in American diners. At some point in the last hundred years, Italian-American food began to take root as a distinct cuisine. Amereno's honors that tradition proudly. The list goes on.