Corinth Square Prairie Village: Va Bene Italian Eatery opens

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Va Bene, a new Italian eatery, has opened in Corinth Sq., 8232 Mission Rd., in Prairie Village. The cafe options indoor and outdoor eating, as properly as curbside pickup.

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Va Bene Italian Eatery, the most recent thought by area restaurateur Whitney VinZant, wishes to be an unpretentious neighborhood gathering area for family members and friends, enjoyment date nights and enterprise lunches.

VinZant took the previous City Desk room, at 8232 Mission Street in Prairie Village’s Corinth Sq., and put in months changing it to a extra airy design — open kitchen area on the north finish, and everyday seating in the middle, then wrapping all over the bar on the south finish.

It also will have patio seating through nicer temperature.

Menu: Va Bene focuses on refreshing substances and home-produced things these kinds of as bread, pastries and sausage.

For appetizers, there’s Italian crepes filled with lobster, alongside with toasted ravioli and meatballs. It also has soups, salads and sandwiches.

Pasta dishes contain rigatoni Bolognese, lobster ravioli, lasagna, and tagliolini scampi. Clients can include rooster, salmon, shrimp and lobster to the dishes for an more price tag.

Other entrees involve hen piccata, grilled salmon, Italian pot roast and chargrilled key rib-eye.

But pizza has been a unique favourite due to the fact the Jan. 1 official opening, specially the Margherita and Quattro Meat (with property-produced sausage, crispy pancetta, Genoa salami, pepperoni and four-cheese mix). Pizzas feed two to a few people for $15 to $17.

For dessert — gelato, Milk & Cookie (espresso gelato with olive oil chocolate chip cookie) and tiramisu. The Relatives Affair features a selection of Italian cookies, cannoli and confections for $15.

The comprehensive-bar attributes wine, beer and Italian cocktails. It has a property-designed limoncello, and its have seltzers on tap which include black cherry.

But the Rosemary Daiquiri will be the talker with its rosemary-flavored smoke bubble.

Hours: The kitchen is open up from 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday by Thursday 11 a.m. to 9:30 Friday 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday. The bar is nonetheless open about 30 minutes afterwards every day.

Specials: Satisfied hour is 4 to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday with drink and small plate specials. Wednesday and Sunday it delivers 50 %-off wine bottles.

In the course of the pandemic with a lot of shoppers wanting carry-out and shipping and delivery selections, it is focusing on travel-pleasant food stuff so they can have the same quality merchandise at home as they would eating in the restaurant, stated Nathan Deters, govt chef.

City Desk shut in September following nine yrs in the middle.

VinZant also plans to open up a Taco Republic on the internet site of the former Arby’s in Corinth. He also has Louie’s Wine Dive, BRGR Kitchen + Bar, Gram & Dun and Fresko Purely natural Food items in his restaurant group.

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Joyce Smith has coated restaurant and retail information for The Star since 1989 underneath the brand Cityscape. She appreciates news guidelines.