Business Bites

>>All those trendy sales associates in their trendy Fifth Avenue boutiques and galleries need an equally trendy café to do lunch. Thank goodness Altin's Café popped up on the west end of Fifth Avenue in Naples. It offers indoor seating in air-conditioned comfort or outdoor seating for those craving a street-side front seat to some serious people watching.

The café delivers to businesses and residences on Fifth, but even if your place of business is not in Old Naples, a trip to the new café on the palm-lined avenue is well worth the drive.

Altin Meleqi himself is in the kitchen most days, creating his homemade soups, appetizers, sandwiches, entrées and desserts-all of which are included on the lunch menu. It's this wide variety of dishes that sold us on Altin's; there seems to be something for everyone.

The appetizer menu goes from chicken quesadillas to shrimp cocktails. The salads jump from a pepper-seared yellowfin tuna salad to a simple niçoise or Mediterranean salad. There are crêpes and wraps available with all kinds of fillings, and for those with a larger appetite, thick grilled sandwiches such as chicken Italiano. Entrées range from cheese steaks with curly fries for the kids, to steaks, lamb chops, grouper or seafood scampi. And all this from a tiny outdoor café, where the kitchen takes up most of the space. So skip the Subway next door, and treat your co-workers to some variety this lunch break.

-Rebecca Loveridge

Altin's Café and Grill, 368 Fifth Ave. S., (239) 261-5853.