It’s been three years since Spaghetty Western (10690 Southern Highlands Pkwy., spaghettywestern.com) opened its doors in the Southern Highlands area. Since that time, it’s gone from a simple counter trattoria to an expanded room with full dining service and a cool little neighborhood bar.

As busy as this place is, some people still don’t understand the concept behind the name, which you all know is a broad subgenre of Western movies produced by Italians. (Think: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.) In other words, if you go into Spaghetty Western and imagine you’ll be ordering spaghetti with barbecue sauce, you’ve got it all wrong … and ew. Instead, what you’ll discover is hearty, delicious Italian-American cuisine.