{"id":87179,"date":"2025-12-17T21:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/87179\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T21:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:28:07","slug":"st-pete-rising-everything-new-and-coming-soon-to-st-pete-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/87179\/","title":{"rendered":"St Pete Rising &#8211; Everything new and coming soon to St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">A pair of lifelong friends from Italy are bringing a fast-casual Italian pasta concept to St. Pete\u2019s EDGE District early next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fusillopasta.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fusillo Italian Pasta<\/a>, named after the spiral-shaped pasta, will take over a roughly 700-square-foot space at 905 Central Avenue, which has sat vacant for nearly two years following the closure of Nash\u2019s Hot Chicken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">The restaurant is expected to open by late February or early March 2026, after a full interior renovation and obtaining a beer and wine license.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">The concept, according to co-owner Alessandro Casali, is built around handmade pasta served in a modern, approachable format. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">Fusillo will offer both dine-in service and grab-and-go options geared toward nearby residents, office workers, and late-night foot traffic along Central Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">\u201cFusillo is designed to be simple, authentic, and flexible,\u201d Casali said in a conversation with St. Pete Rising. \u201cWe\u2019ll have a main counter where people can order fresh pasta to eat inside or take back to the office or home. All of our pasta will be handmade every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"inline-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/fusillo-italian-pasta-bringing-made-daily-pasta-ready-in-minutes-to-the-edge-district\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of lifelong friends from Italy are bringing a fast-casual Italian pasta concept to St. Pete\u2019s EDGE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-87179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}