Relaxed great dining Fresco Italiano coming to Warner Robins

A new Italian restaurant is coming to Warner Robins.

Christian Torres is preparing to open a next area of his Tifton-based mostly, household-owned Fresco Italiano cafe.

He described the restaurant as relaxed good eating.

“We want to be that neighborhood put in which you can however go during 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 date night time there, then you can do that too.”

Torres places an emphasis on high-quality food stuff and on ambiance, scheduling to change the before long-to-be former Ole Occasions Nation Buffet location at 1208 Russell Parkway with a rework. Ole Situations is relocating to the former Golden Corral outside the house the Houston County Galleria in Centerville.

The buffet tables are heading out, and wooden hearth grilling is coming in.

Torres said he expects to choose some important things from the Tifton area and replicate them, but he also wants to make the restaurant unique to Warner Robins.

“We do a small investigation to see what persons like in the market place wherever we operate, but most of the menu— the classics of Italian dishes — we’re also likely to have them there,” he said. “We’re large on steaks, way too.”

Eating by candlelight

Torres designs to use the similar interior designer for the new restaurant. He envisions candlelit dining.

“At nighttime, we do a great deal of dim lights and candles all around the spot so it appears to be like seriously good for a date evening,” claimed Torres, noting that Valentine’s Day is just one of the major nights of the calendar year for the Tifton restaurant.

“Every evening, it is component of our ambiance. We’re that spot you go for a girl’s night out — perhaps have a few of glasses of wine, enjoy a number of appetizers, or we can do the total dining expertise.”

The restaurant will have have a comprehensive bar as perfectly as a wine bar.

“Italian restaurants are big on wine … paired with the foodstuff, or just to have a glass of wine and retain that dialogue heading,” Torres explained.

The Tifton locale is acknowledged for its steaks.

The cafe employs perfectly marbled, 100% black Angus aged steak cooked with a trace of smoke.

“On the weekends, we’re kinda like an Italian steakhouse,” Torres explained. “Steak goes nicely with pasta. Steak goes effectively with salad. It goes very properly with an Italian themed cafe.

“But also we are really very well recognized for our clean sauces. We make every thing in house. We only source the freshest substances. We use the very best make that I can get it. So lasagna is very common dish. We have the eggplant Parmesan. It’s an additional popular dish.”

The cafe also does a great deal of salads.

Wooden fireplace grilling

“Everything that is protein, we test to grill it, charbroil it,” Torres said. “A lot of open up fire grilling, that is another attribute of our delicacies there at Fresco Italiano.”

Diners can count on to be ready to see their foodstuff cooked at the Warner Robins locale.

“I like to have open up kitchens,” Torres explained. “I believe it’s a awesome part of the ambiance of a cafe … the place people can see how the cooks are cooking your food stuff.”

Torres, who enjoys cooking, reported diners can hope to see him at the grill on weekends from time to time at the Warner Robins spot.

Also, he pans to add a compact patio in the back again of the cafe for outdoor eating.

Less than the umbrella of Torres Hospitality Team, his spouse and children also has a Mexican cafe, Previous Mexico in Sylvester, and a foodstuff truck, Rocco’s Italian Avenue Food stuff, centered out of Moultrie.

“All family members owned,” he stated. “Me and my spouse and my brothers we started off this business some a long time in the past.”

The family members very first opened Fresco Italiano in Sylvester in a former cotton warehouse and later relocated the cafe to Tifton in section of a previous tobacco warehouse.

“It was a big a tobacco warehouse, and we fell in appreciate with the strategy of renewing the place,” Torres reported of the Tifton place. “It was a long creating, so they designed apartment properties on the back again of it, and in the entrance of it, is the restaurant. And it is effective extremely well.”

Torres reported he expects to start off the rework in two to three months just after Ole Moments is out of the Russell Parkway place. He plans to employ the service of about 50 to 60 people for the new restaurant. He hopes to open up in the spring or early summer season.

“It’s not likely to be absolutely like a cookie cutter cafe,” Torres said. “We really do not feel in that. We want to be section of the Warner Robins group wherever we work.”

Tequila and taco bar — possibly?

Torres stated he’s also considering about seeking out a new cafe principle in Warner Robins: a tequila and taco bar he designs to title, Uno Mas Cantina. He’s taking into consideration opportunity web site destinations.

“It’s a new approach to fashionable Mexican cuisine,” Torres claimed. “Mexican food they are going to relate it to tequila, appropriate? So we have this bar with a great deal of different tequilas …and the taco bar is far more like a bar where you go and sit down and you see how they put together the tacos correct 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 right in front of your eyes. We’re executing fresh new designed corn and flour tortillas … You can sit there and you can be chatting with the chefs if you want to — kind of like the experience you would have if you go to a taco shop in Mexico.”