By G.A. Benton

Claudiana Italian Restaurant is one of those eateries — they are abundant in Columbus — with a generic strip mall storefront that leads to a bustling scene of insiders dining on bold, scratch-made food. If you're new to the establishment, as I was to this Polaris-area place, it's like walking into a secret world.

At four-year-old Claudiana, that world is amber-tinted but fairly bright, filled with white tablecloths but the kind of "art" you'd find at T.J Maxx. It has ochre walls, a soundtrack guaranteed to play "Volare," overhead lamps beaming the colors of the Italian flag and mostly mature patrons warmly interacting with staff, who sometimes join their many regulars at the table.

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