Call it the best of both worlds: By day, tuck into $10 breakfast platters, country-fried steak and strawberry-smothered flapjacks. By night, say “buonasera” to veal sorrentino, 18-inch vodka pies and red sauce-smothered rigatoni bolognese.

Two years after closing in Wilton Manors, the beloved LGBTQ+ gathering spot once named Shawn & Nick’s Courtyard Cafe has popped up in an unlikely place: inside the Italian restaurant Dom Caruso’s Cucina.

The newly blended business — now called Caruso’s and Courtyard Cafe — debuted on Aug. 30 at 2468 Wilton Drive, on the northern end of the Drive, near Five Points, a half-mile north of Shawn & Nick’s Courtyard Cafe’s original location in the Shoppes of Wilton Manors.

Consider it a full-blown culinary marriage between Emmanuel “Manny” Varias, the cafe’s

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