Restaurateur Alberto Lombardi To Open Eatery In Highland Park Village

Posted on September 10th, 2010 5:49pm by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Celebrity Diners, Openings/Closings, Restaurant News

Ever the innovator, Alberto Lombardi will strike Dallas again with another restaurant concept. According to his PR rep Bill Armstrong, Mr. Lombardi’s newest spot will open in March 2011 near the fountain in Highland Park Village. Hmm. Could this be the current Who’s Who Hamburger spot? [Update: Nope. Empty Talbot's space.] Here’s what Mr. Bill sez:

Inside, the restaurant will seat forty-five guests and a newly designed outside patio will seat thirty. The concept is still being finalized but will specialize in Mediterranean cuisine in an urban casual environment. The name is also still to be finalized.

Also a quick update on La Fiorentina, Lombardi’s new Tuscan steakhouse going into the old Chip’s building on Cole—they are looking at a late October opening.

10 comments

  1. Can’t wait…

    @ 8:42 am on September 11, 2010

  2. I’m so excited!!!

    @ 8:50 pm on September 11, 2010

  3. Darn it! I saw the remodeling and thought Chips was coming back!

    @ 10:02 am on September 12, 2010

  4. I saw this last week…Geronimo’s?? Did I miss this anybody else talking about it…
    http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/cityofate/2010/09/santa_fes_geronimo_set_to_raid.php

    @ 1:35 pm on September 13, 2010

  5. @Sammy…try the Chip’s that is still open on Lovers Lane at the Tollway.

    @ 2:08 pm on September 13, 2010

  6. @cobra….there’s no connection between Lombardi and Geronimo’s.

    @ 2:09 pm on September 13, 2010

  7. Let’s hope it is not a repeat of Pesca. BTW, what happening to his restaurant that was supposed to open in Las Colinas?

    @ 2:42 pm on September 13, 2010

  8. @bradt…i guess I should have been more clear…i realize lombardi has nothing to do with geronimo’s. This post reminded me that I read last week about geronimo’s coming to hpv. I thought it was interesting that nobody from sidedish had brought this up.

    @ 3:05 pm on September 13, 2010

  9. That’s too bad. I thought Highland park Village was getting a Mercury/Citizen restaurant. Maybe one day soon we can have this restaurant south of Northwest highway.

    @ 12:06 pm on September 14, 2010

  10. Good Italian in HPV would be great since Partizio’s was McDonaldified.

    @ 2:28 pm on September 14, 2010