A new Italian restaurant has opened in Quincy Center. What we know

QUINCY − A small Italian restaurant chain has opened its newest location in Quincy Center.

Evviva Trattoria is on the ground floor of Nova Quincy , the 171-unit apartment building at 1500 Hancock St.

The restaurant, at Cottage and Hancock streets, has an open kitchen and bar, a 1,700-square-foot dining room with booths and high-top tables, a 500-square-foot private dining room and an outdoor patio in Kilroy Square that will open in the spring. It is the first restaurant in this space.

The space is “super-, super-cool,” and the patio is large and almost like having a second restaurant, Marcie Day, chief operating officer for Evviva (which means "hurray" in Italian), said earlier this year.

“This space is like nothing we’ve ever had before,” she said. "This plan has been in the works for a while and it's a great spot."

Evviva Trattoria is a Massachusetts-based sister restaurant chain to 110 Grill .

The chain, which has eight locations, opened a 6,200-square-foot restaurant at Hanover Crossing in the fall. It’s an open-concept design – you can see the cook tossing the pizza dough – and offers modern Italian food in a casual atmosphere.

Menu items include lasagna fritters, gnocchi Florentine and an Italian smash burger.

Much of Evviva's menu is either naturally gluten free or can be modified. All locations have an allergy-friendly scratch kitchen and a full bar.

Quincy Center restaurant scene is ever changing

Evviva is the newest addition to Quincy Center, which has seen a shake-up in the restaurant scene.

The Fat Cat, a Quincy Center staple, closed earlier this year, citing "the ever-rising cost of goods and doing business."

Idle Hour recently transferred its liquor license to a new venture called Drifters Kitchen and Bar, which will feature a specialized take on bar pizza, according to owner Will Falaro.

Falaro told The Patriot Ledger that the pizza will consist of a 12-inch pie with very thin crust cut into squares. The larger size, thinner crust and novel way of cutting slices will distinguish Drifters' pies from other South Shore bar pizzas, he said. The 2,241-square-foot bar and restaurant is located at 1464 Hancock St., on a block that includes Alba Restaurant, Fuji, Pearl & Lime and other popular eateries.

Evviva Trattoria

Location: 1510 Hancock St., Quincy

Hours: 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday; 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday

Contact: 617-433-9655

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