What’s the recipe for success when it comes to maintaining a popular restaurant in Naples? These six restaurants all have different owners, menus, and environments, but have a few things in common: great service, fresh local ingredients, and an authenticity you can’t buy.
While lots of new restaurants have chic modern interiors and flashy unique dishes, these Collier gems find the simplicity in good ingredients, classic dishes, and friendly service to be the pillars that keep them in business for decades.
We’re here to salute the classic dining spots around town. Here’s six favorites worth the time and money.
Kelly’s Fish House Dining Room
The oldest among the bunch is a Naples classic: Kelly’s Fish House Dining Room. Pat Combs founded the seafood restaurant in 1953, making the spot 73 years old this year. Kelly McGill took it over in 1971 and passed it on to her son, Kelly Ellis…