by Hanna Raskin

By Elizabeth Hall's reckoning, there are 136 Italian restaurants in Charleston. Hall admits she's counting every restaurant with even a tenuous connection to tomato sauce, but her tally speaks to the local enthusiasm for Italian-style cooking.

"We don't have a Little Italy, but what we do have that I get really jazzed about, is we do have new immigration," Hall says. "There is an Italian base here: We just don't recognize it and galvanize it." Hall and Paolo Dalla Zorza of Paolo's Gelato Italiano, Hall's personal and professional partner, hope to do exactly that with a private supper club in the area of West Ashley that community planners are now calling DuWapp.

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