{"id":34563,"date":"2015-01-19T14:52:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T19:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=34563"},"modified":"2015-01-19T14:52:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T19:52:03","slug":"lamottas-italian-restaurant-pizzeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/01\/lamottas-italian-restaurant-pizzeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamotta&#8217;s Italian Restaurant &#038; Pizzeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Lamotta&#8217;s Italian Restaurant &amp; Pizzeria<\/div>\n<div>Gulf Points Square, 15660 San Carlos Boulevard #225,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0Fort Myers, FL 33908<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"tel:%28239%29%20482-5505\" target=\"_blank\">(239) 482-5505<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-34564\" title=\"2015-01-18 11.35.37\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-18-11.35.37-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-18-11.35.37-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-18-11.35.37-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-18-11.35.37.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Hours:<\/div>\n<div>Monday\u00a0through\u00a0Thursday: 11am &#8211; 9pm<\/div>\n<div>Friday 11am &#8211; 10pm<\/div>\n<div>Saturday 12pm &#8211; 12am<\/div>\n<div>Sunday: 4pm- 9pm<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In 1978 the La motta&#8217;s family moved from New-York to the sunshine state of Florida where they opened one of the 1st Italian Restaurants in Fort Myers.They have been in business for over 36 years and the customers seem to enjoy there fresh made daily authentic Italian style dishes. Throughout these many years customers witnessed restaurants, people, and stores that have come and gone But not \u00a0La motta&#8217;s \u00a0they stand strong.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They are a family owned and operated \u00a0business with freshly prepared food on location not frozen like others. I met Chef Carmelo who explained the process and the guaranteed freshness of the dishes. Signature Appetizers, Entr\u00e9es and Desserts are there \u00a0Meatball lollipop pops, lobster in clam sauce and there delicious cannoli that&#8217;s known all over southwest Florida.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><!--more-->LaMotta&#8217;s Italian Restaurant &amp; Pizzeria stands out because they are a leader not a follower ask anyone who&#8217;s been there.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-34565\" title=\"2015-01-19 00.42.46\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-19-00.42.46-300x153.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-19-00.42.46-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-19-00.42.46-1024x522.png 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-19-00.42.46.png 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In recent years they have become involved in supporting charitable events such as the &#8220;Harry Chapin Food Bank&#8221; \u00a0in which we collected canned goods, \u00a0donated soup for the &#8220;Empty Bowls&#8221;\u201d event, and donated a percentage of proceeds for &#8220;Dine Out for Hunger&#8221;.\u00a0 Also, they have joined with the Susan G. Komen Foundation for Breast Cancer in which they donated a percentage of one night profits.\u00a0 They also participated in the &#8220;Slice of Hope&#8221; breast cancer event, held at there \u00a0restaurant.\u00a0 La Motta&#8217;s Restaurant enjoys \u00a0giving back to the community and helping such needed foundations.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>LaMotta&#8217;s Italian Restaurant &amp; Pizzeria also caters for your special occasion, birthdays, weddings and network meetings. You can \u00a0order from this restaurant online on grub hub. After having your first experience you will be a regular. Open Table Reservation Online available and there service is speedy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Today they our proud to be one of the few remaining, family-owned Italian restaurants in Lee County. La Motta&#8217;s has available seating \u00a0for 150 guest. NO gratuity, its feels like eating with mom and pop at the family&#8217;s table. All Dishes and Desserts are prepared on location with the best quality ingredients. I got a chance to meet the chef Carmelo and he explained its always busy and always ready to help you plan that big event, Either its your birthday, anniversary, wedding or office party they accommodate for it all. Just book one week in advance. Also online ordering on Grub Hub is available.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thanks for having us on location we learned alot and lets all keep supporting local mom and pops businesses in SWFL. Thank you for having us on location.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lamotta&#8217;s Italian Restaurant &amp; Pizzeria Gulf Points Square, 15660 San Carlos Boulevard #225, \u00a0Fort Myers, FL 33908 (239) 482-5505 Hours: Monday\u00a0through\u00a0Thursday: 11am &#8211; 9pm Friday 11am &#8211; 10pm Saturday 12pm&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}