Andrea Lombardi

‘We Are Really Grateful’: Lombardi’s Italian Restaurant To Open Next Week

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After months of anticipation, the owners of Dolce Café are opening a new authentic Italian restaurant on Elm Street. 

Lombardi’s Ristorante & Bar at 32 Elm St. (it has doors facing both Elm and Morse Court)—named for brothers Andrea and Daniel Lombardi, born and raised in Ischia, Italy—will open to the public next week, following a series of “soft-opening” invite-only dinners that started this Wednesday. “We are really grateful for the community,” Andrea Lombardi told NewCanaanite.com from inside the new restaurant on Wednesday afternoon. “Otherwise, we wouldn’t be opening up.”

The food will be entirely Italian, with a modern twist, according to Andrea Lombardi, who will be working primarily in the kitchen, while his brother runs front-of-house/bar. “We want to keep our food traditional, but we also want to give it a little touch of modernity,” he said.