Former governor Mitt Romney, producer David E. Kelley, and Esquire restaurant critic John Mariani are in the house. You might expect to find such an assortment of diners in New York or Los Angeles. Yet the three are among the crowd at Il Casale, chef Dante de Magistris’s new Italian restaurant in Belmont, on a recent Tuesday night.

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Pictured, Fritto misto has a light batter covering an assortment of calamari, shrimp, red mullet chunks, and “fries with eyes,’’ - baby whiting, a tiny fried fish eaten whole.

50 Leonard St., Belmont. 617-209-4942. www.ilcasalebelmont.com All major credit cards accepted. Wheelchair accessible.

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