Popular Ga Italian restaurant strategies to open a new spot in Warner Robins

Jan. 22—A new Italian restaurant is coming to Warner Robins.

Christian Torres is scheduling to open a next spot of his Tifton-primarily based, household-owned Fresco Italiano cafe.

He described the cafe as casual high-quality dining.

“We want to be that community spot where by you can continue to go through the week and get a plate of lasagna and get a plate of pasta, and then, if you want to costume up on the weekends and get a steak or have a day night there, then you can do that way too.”

Torres areas an emphasis on quality food and on ambiance, organizing to change the quickly-to-be former Ole Occasions Nation Buffet place at 1208 Russell Parkway with a rework. Ole Times is relocating to the previous Golden Corral outdoors the Houston County Galleria in Centerville.

The buffet tables are likely out, and wooden fireplace grilling is coming in.

Torres mentioned he expects to take some critical things from the Tifton place and duplicate them, but he also needs to make the restaurant special to Warner Robins.

“We do a minimal investigation to see what men and women like in the market place wherever we work, but most of the menu— the classics of Italian dishes — we’re also likely to have them there,” he stated. “We are huge on steaks, as well.”

Dining by candlelight

Torres ideas to use the similar inside designer for the new cafe. He envisions candlelit eating.

“At nighttime, we do a lot of dim lights and candles all around the area so it seems truly awesome for a day night,” said Torres, noting that Valentine’s Day is just one of the biggest nights of the 12 months for the Tifton restaurant.

“Each and every night time, it is really component of our ambiance. We are that put you go for a girl’s evening out — it’s possible have a few of eyeglasses of wine, appreciate a couple appetizers, or we can do the complete dining experience.”

The cafe will have have a complete bar as very well as a wine bar.

“Italian restaurants are big on wine … paired with the foods, or just to have a glass of wine and maintain that conversation heading,” Torres stated.

The Tifton location is known for its steaks.

The restaurant takes advantage of effectively marbled, 100% black Angus aged steak cooked with a trace of smoke.

“On the weekends, we are kinda like an Italian steakhouse,” Torres mentioned. “Steak goes perfectly with pasta. Steak goes well with salad. It goes very very well with an Italian themed restaurant.

“But also we are very very well regarded for our fresh new sauces. We make every thing in house. We only supply the freshest components. We use the best generate that I can get it. So lasagna is really preferred dish. We have the eggplant Parmesan. It truly is a further well known dish.”

The cafe also does a whole lot of salads.

Wood fireplace grilling

“Every little thing that is protein, we test to grill it, charbroil it,” Torres claimed. “A ton of open fire grilling, that is yet another attribute of our cuisine there at Fresco Italiano.”

Diners can expect to be ready to see their food stuff cooked at the Warner Robins site.

“I like to have open up kitchens,” Torres mentioned. “I imagine it can be a great section of the ambiance of a restaurant … exactly where men and women can see how the chefs are cooking your food items.”

Torres, who enjoys cooking, claimed diners can count on to see him at the grill on weekends from time to time at the Warner Robins location.

Also, he pans to add a modest patio in the back of the restaurant for outside eating.

Less than the umbrella of Torres Hospitality Team, his family members also has a Mexican restaurant, Old Mexico in Sylvester, and a foods truck, Rocco’s Italian Street Food items, based mostly out of Moultrie.

“All spouse and children owned,” he explained. “Me and my wife and my brothers we begun this company some years in the past.”

The relatives first opened Fresco Italiano in Sylvester in a previous cotton warehouse and later relocated the cafe to Tifton in part of a former tobacco warehouse.

“It was a big a tobacco warehouse, and we fell in like with the principle of renewing the room,” Torres reported of the Tifton locale. “It was a prolonged creating, so they built condominium structures on the back again of it, and in the front of it, is the cafe. And it operates very very well.”

Torres mentioned he expects to start off the remodel in two to three weeks after Ole Occasions is out of the Russell Parkway area. He designs to seek the services of about 50 to 60 men and women for the new restaurant. He hopes to open up in the spring or early summer season.

“It is not heading to be absolutely like a cookie cutter cafe,” Torres said. “We will not believe in that. We want to be portion of the Warner Robins group in which we function.”

Tequila and taco bar — maybe?

Torres explained he is also thinking about attempting out a new restaurant idea in Warner Robins: a tequila and taco bar he ideas to identify, Uno Mas Cantina. He’s contemplating probable web page places.

“It is a contemporary strategy to modern-day Mexican delicacies,” Torres explained. “Mexican food stuff they’re heading to relate it to tequila, right? So we have this bar with a great deal of unique tequilas …and the taco bar is much more like a bar wherever you go and sit down and you see how they put together the tacos appropriate there for you.

“You have mesquite wooden grill with the meats thrown on the open up flame there for you. They’re chopping the meats appropriate in entrance of your eyes. We are executing fresh new created corn and flour tortillas … You can sit there and you can be chatting with the cooks if you want to — sort of like the expertise you would have if you go to a taco store in Mexico.”