No one can ever accuse Mike & Charlie's Italian Restaurant at Harrah's Casino of being a spaghetti joint -- cheap, it ain't. But if you're willing to sit at the bar when the restaurant is offering its Sicilian Sampler Bar Menu, it's available at the shiny, granite-topped bar seven nights a week from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. and again from 9 p.m. until the place closes (10 p.m. on weeknights, 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights).
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In 1989, the Oakland A's were World Series champs, Driving Miss Daisy won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Mike Garozzo opened his eponymous restaurant Ristorante on April 6 at 526 Harrison, operating on what he calls a "wing and a prayer."Exactly 20 years later, not only is the original Garozzo's still open, but there are three more locations around the city -- Lee Summit (1547 NE. Rice Road, 816-554-2800), Olathe (13505 S. Mur-Len, 913-764-6969) and Overland Park. To celebrate making it