Hilton Head is welcoming a new Italian restaurant. Here’s when and where

Hilton Head Island is set to welcome a new Italian restaurant owned by a popular New Jersey chef.

Nunzio Patruno, a noted chef, is renovating a building on New Orleans Road and expects it to open by March.

“We plan to improvise with a lot of seafood and homemade pasta,” Patruno said Wednesday. “We want a lighter menu.”

The restaurant will be at 18 New Orleans Road, which was the former home of Reebook Crossfit.

Patruno has added a kitchen around 1,300 square-feet along with several new windows, a large bar area and two outdoor seating areas. The restaurant is expected to seat 175 people.

Patruno has seen wide success with a Nunzio Ristorante Rustico restaurant in New Jersey. That restaurant opened in 2003 and has been reviewed by The New York Times among others.

This story was originally published October 24, 2018 at 1:17 PM.