Ricotta with summer squashes from Via Triozzi. Photo courtesy of Via Triozzi.
An Italian restaurant with a focus on Tuscan cuisine is expected to open this month in Lowest Greenville.
Via Triozzi is owned by Leigh Hutchinson, whose family is from Sicily. Hutchinson has spent more than two years living in Italy. As an undergraduate, she spent a semester in a town called Scandicci, which is just outside Florence in Tuscany; the villa she lived in was on a street called Via Triozzi.
She also studied Italian gastronomy and culture at the Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici, and then she studied cooking with Marcella Ansaldo.
Heading the kitchen is executive chef Mo Rodriguez, the former chef and owner of Modest Rogers Kitchen and Bar who has previously served as executive chef at Nonna and sous chef at Carbone’s Fine Food and Wine.
The menu will include pasta, seasonally inspired antipasti and Roman-style pizza al taglio. Via Triozzi will also offer an all-Italian wine list featuring small producers and low-intervention wines.
Via Triozzi will feel like a laid-back, family-run Tuscan trattoria.
While Hutchinson has never owned a restaurant before, her family has history in the industry. Her uncle, Mark Hutchinson, owns Hutch’s, Angelina’s, and Remington Tavern and Seafood Exchange in Buffalo, New York. He’s also worked for Stephan Pyles, including as executive chef at Routh Street Café.
Another uncle, Mike Hutchinson, previously owned Hut’s Hamburgers and a pizzeria called Frank & Angie’s in Austin.
Via Triozzi is expected to open for dinner in July 2023 at 1806 Greenville Ave.
