{"id":126613,"date":"2026-01-21T17:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/126613\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T17:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:19:12","slug":"the-dish-florida-weekly-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/126613\/","title":{"rendered":"THE DISH – Florida Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BY LAURA TICHY<\/a>
laura.tichy-smith@floridaweekly.com\t\t<\/p>\n

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Cielo Restaurant\u2019s Oishii Shrimp Livornese. -LAURA TICHY \/ FLORIDA WEEKLY<\/p>\n

The Dish: Elevated farm-to-table cuisine\n<\/p>\n

The Place: Cielo Restaurant, 1244 Periwinkle Way, Sanibel; 239-472-5555; www.cielo-sanibel.com<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

The Details:\n<\/p>\n

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Cielo Restaurant\u2019s 6-month-aged Manchego cheese. -LAURA TICHY \/ FLORIDA WEEKLY<\/p>\n

Many restaurants on Lee County\u2019s barrier islands tend towards beachy atmosphere and fare. However, Cielo Restaurant on Sanibel provides a sophisticated linen tablecloth atmosphere where you can dress to the nines to wine and dine on elevated farm-to-table cuisine. The restaurant features not only a culinary institute-trained executive chef overseeing the kitchen but also a certified mixologist helming the bar, so consider starting your meal with a cleverly crafted cocktail or a glass of carefully curated wine.\n<\/p>\n

To go with that drink, consider the six-month-aged Manchego cheese appetizer ($16). The mellow cheese is softened by a light frying that turns its panko crumb crust golden and provides a nice crunchy contrast to the cheese. The three generously sized cheese triangles nest upon a cranberry-orange chutney and are sprinkled with arugula fried until crisp. With the fruitiness of the chutney and mild richness of the cheese, it\u2019s almost like having dessert for your appetizer.\n<\/p>\n

If you have ever wondered what actual, freshly made pasta tastes like, try the Oishii Shrimp Livornese ($44). The house-made spaghetti in this entr\u00e9e is very substantial and has an amazing texture. It\u2019s topped with a half-dozen large Oishii brand shrimp, which are farm-raised under sustainable, environmentally controlled conditions for the highest quality. Then the kitchen presents the dish in the style of the Tuscan port city of Livorno, whose cuisine features a lighter sauce of a white wine garlic broth with fresh tomatoes, capers and olives. It\u2019s a hearty dinner, with the savory flavors from the salty capers and olives accentuating the shrimp, and the lighter sauce letting the fresh flavor of the quality ingredients shine through.\n<\/p>\n

All the items on Cielo\u2019s dessert menu sound so amazing that it\u2019s hard to choose. The layered chocolate \u201ctiramisu\u201d ($14) lets you indulge in a mash-up of several favorite desserts at once. Chocolate mousse gets sandwiched between two thin slices of coffee liqueur chocolate sponge cake that\u2019s seated in a puddle of espresso chocolate sauce. Then it\u2019s topped with a generous swirl of whipped mascarpone cream, dusted with extra brute cocoa powder, and crowned with a chocolate truffle. To catch all the flavors at once, scoop down through the layers and swirl in the puddle of bittersweet sauce. The truffle is a pure ganache ball rolled in cocoa and like another dessert on top of your dessert. Need I say this is a creamy, rich experience with which to finish your visit to Cielo?\n<\/p>\n

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Cielo Restaurant\u2019s chocolate tiramisu. -LAURA TICHY \/ FLORIDA WEEKLY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open Audio Article Player Elevated farm-to-table cuisineBY LAURA TICHYlaura.tichy-smith@floridaweekly.com Cielo Restaurant\u2019s Oishii Shrimp Livornese. -LAURA TICHY \/ FLORIDA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-126613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}