On any given day, if it’s lunch time, you’ll probably find the Caltagirone brothers at Tullio, the fine dining Italian restaurant just off Ponce opposite the Barnes and Nobles parking lot. They rarely sit alone, usually joined by clients or by friends and family.

“This is one of the few places we’ll eat in Coral Gables,” says Ignazio, the older of the two brothers. “We’re Italian after all. We have to have good food.

That is not Ignazio and Gaetano’s only obsession with Italy. In the high-end homes they have built in Coral Gables and throughout Miami-Dade’s posher zip codes, they insist that everything come from Italy, right down to the handles on the doors, which they consider essential to meet the high-end tastes of their buyers.