A dining review in a wide-open space like Brooklyn Joe’s can be a challenge. Other guests eye your table askance, muttering under their breath about two people displaying such excess.
“We eat like this every day,” my husband, Bill, said.
Brooklyn Joe’s in Punta Gorda Isles is one hell of a pizzeria, but it seats 60 in a room of cafeteria proportions, with tabletops sized for pizza and not much more. There’s no privacy here, but piped-in smooth jazz and glowing battery candles manage to lend the place a bit of trattoria ambiance…