Fiatto, a new casual Italian restaurant and bar, is preparing to open its doors in Uptown’s West Village.
Set to launch in spring 2022, Fiatto will open at 3700 McKinney Ave, suite 126. Designed by Coeval Studio, the 4,000-square-foot space will feature earth tones and a dog-friendly patio. It was previously home to Eureka!, an upscale casual new American restaurant and bar that closed in 2020 due to the pandemic.
The restaurant is being brought to the village by executive chef Kylil Henson and general manager John Dal Canton, both of whom have backgrounds in Italian culture and cuisine.
Henson’s experience includes working at restaurants such as The French Laundry and DBGB Kitchen and Bar by French chef Daniel Boulud. He moved to Dallas in 2018 to work at Flora Street Café, Stephen Pyles’s iconic restaurant that closed in 2020 thanks in part to the pandemic. The space that Flora previously occupied in the Arts District will soon be home to Italian restaurant, La Stella Cucina Verace.
“Growing up in South Philly, one of the biggest hubs of Italian cuisine in the country, I was fully immersed in the culture and cuisine,” Henson said in a statement. “Many of my friends were Italian and when I would go over to their house, their parents would cook decadent dishes for us and often times would teach me how to make them. My mom’s Italian co-workers would always give her recipes to make us at home as well so I grew up eating classic Italian dishes all the time.”
Dal Canton, who will also be serving as beverage director at the forthcoming La Stella, is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and a Level 3 sommelier. He has worked for Crafted Hospitality celebrity chef, Tom Colicchio, and at the Cowboys Club in Frisco.
Dal Canton says he wants Fiatto to be a place where the Dallas community can gather for all occasions.
“We are taking the fond memories we associate with these dishes and bringing them to Dallas in hopes that our guests get that same, warm feeling,” he said.
Fiatto will be open seven days a week for dinner and weekend brunch. Nearly everything on the menu will be made in-house and feature such pasta dishes as agnolotti, mafaldini and pappardelle. There will also be pizza, chicken parmesan, trout saltimbocca, handmade gnocchi, eggplant parmesan, and Roman-spiced lamb shank.
Brunch options will include cappuccino waffles topped with cinnamon butter, Ferrero Rocher waffles, lemon-ricotta souffle pancakes, mimosas and micheladas.
