People sure love Italian food. The two toughest restaurants to get into this summer were both Italian. One was a modest, 75 seater including al fresco dining with views of Ventnor Avenue; the other a mammoth, multi-million-dollar, 300-plus-seater by an Iron Chef inside a casino.

And while the buzz of the summer certainly goes to Michael Symon’s Angeline at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa as the hottest new restaurant of the summer, runner-up — in Atlantic County, at least — goes to Tutto Fresco Italian Grill in Ventnor, which couldn’t accommodate us for more than a month. The wait was worth it.