The Dish: Scampi in Philadelphia's Queen Village section sahres recipe for shrimp scampi

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- In this edition of The Dish, we're heading to a new Italian supper club in Queen Village called Scampi.

The quirky and crazy delicious BYOB celebrates every kind of Italian cuisine.

Because it's called Scampi , we're learning to make their shrimp scampi.

Chef/Owner Liz Grothe opened Scampi last December.

She calls it a "fun little restaurant."

"I am a Filipino American from Oklahoma, cooking fine Italian food in Philadelphia," she says. "This restaurant is the story of how immigration changes people and the places that people immigrate to."

The best example of that, she says, is the restaurant's name: Scampi.

"Scampi means shrimp," Grothe says, "so shrimp scampi just means shrimp shrimp."

In Italy, scampi refers to a type of shellfish, specifically langous