La Traviata Restaurant

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Owner Mario has run the restaurant for about twenty years inside the 1926 Willmore Building, its dining room finished with high ceilings, arches, and operatic tapestries on the walls and ceiling. The kitchen serves a Nuevo Italian menu that includes pumpkin ravioli in an orange-ginger sauce and lobster tortellini in a housemade cream sauce, served in the dining room, at the bar, or out on the plaza. Live music fills the room on Friday and Saturday nights, its busiest, so online reservations are recommended.