A Trattoria Il Panino Alum Debuts a Glitzy Italian Restaurant in Downtown Boston

Downtown Boston has gained one other Italian restaurant within the type of Joia, a glittery new restaurant and lounge inside downtown Boston’s Harborside Inn from Gianmarco Rinaldi, a former supervisor at in style North Finish spot Trattoria Il Panino.

At Joia, Rinaldi has lined up Italian classics on the menu set towards the backdrop of an opulent, gilded eating room meant to evoke the Nice Gatsby, he tells the Boston Globe. The menu consists of bocconcini, or small fried balls of mozzarella; pinsas, an ethereal, Roman-style pizza; and almost a dozen several types of pasta, together with a cacio e pepe tossed tableside in a parm wheel. Breakfast and lunch may even be provided beginning this week, in accordance with a rep for the restaurant.

The restaurant’s glitzy interiors embody a 60-seat principal eating room, a 16-seat bar, and an out of doors patio that may have the ability to seat as much as 24 for warm-weather eating out entrance of the resort.

Rinaldi, a Naples native, moved to Boston seven years in the past, in accordance with the Globe. His restaurant resume within the metropolis consists of years spent working below veteran North Finish restaurateur Frank DePasquale, together with managing DePasquale’s Hanover Road mainstay Trattoria Il Panino. Rinaldi additionally hung out working for native restaurant group Coje, recognized for mastering the party-ready restaurant style at locations like downtown Boston restaurant Mariel and Lolita in Again Bay and Fort Level.

Joia is situated at 195 State Road, contained in the Harborside Inn. It’s open for dinner from 5 to 11 p.m., and will probably be open for breakfast and lunch from 7 a.m. to three p.m. beginning on April 25. Late-night lounge hours run till 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday.