A Bella Vista institution since 1967 — white tablecloths, dim lighting, a deep red-sauce menu, and the kind of staff who've worked here for decades and remember regulars by name. The veal chop, the homemade pastas, the kind of Italian-American dinner that's vanishing across the country. Less a fine-dining destination than a living piece of South Philly history. For a Philadelphia Italian meal that genuinely couldn't exist anywhere else.