Eggplant parmesan at Tellers

The menu features house-made pastas, Neapolitan pizzas, and locally sourced vegetables and steaks cooked over a wood-burning grill. Highlights include eggplant parmesan, rigatoni al forno with red-wine braised beef short rib, and yellowfin tuna crudo with taggiasca olives and tonnato dressing.

Dirty French – Miami

Major Food Group’s Dirty French debuted in New York in 2014, and eight years later an outpost has landed in Miami. The steakhouse opened in the Brickell area at the end of April, joining the group’s other properties in the city, including Sadelle’s, Carbone, Hasalon and ZZ’s Club. This follows Major Food Group’s recent three-pronged expansion into the Dallas market.

Tomahawk steak at Dirty French

The restaurant is purposely grandiose, channeling 80s-era opulence with pink tuxedo-clad servers and rolling carts serving champagne, making salads and carving prime rib. The new location keeps several favorites from the original menu, like the mushroom millefeuille and chicken and crepes, but Miami diners can also expect giant tomahawk steaks and seafood towers.

Acqua — Nashville

Chef RJ Cooper — who won a James Beard award for his work in Washington, D.C. back in 2007 — opened his second restaurant in Nashville’s Germantown neighborhood on March 18. Acqua sits next door to his Saint Stephen concept and serves a tasting menu focused on coastal Italian seafood.

Acqua’s tasting menu

The reservation-only restaurant serves 12-16 courses and suggests that diners allow three-plus hours for the experience. The cost is $150 per person, before drinks. Sample dishes include scampi with langoustine, coal-roasted monkfish and olive oil-poached turbot with black truffles.

Union Tavern – Nashville

Union Tavern opened March 16 at The Bobby hotel in downtown Nashville’s arts district. It’s the latest project from former Catbird Seat executive chef Ryan Poli, who was tasked with revitalizing the property’s dining concepts.

Puttanesca tagliatelle at Union Tavern

The opening menu features meat, seafood, vegetable-forward plates, pastas and desserts, with heavy Mediterranean influences and Asian accents. Sample dishes include pork belly with smoked apple butter and puttanesca tagliatelle with serrano ham, capers, olives and fried bread crumbs.

Fiatto – Dallas

Executive chef Kylil Henson and general manager John Dal Canton opened this casual Italian-American concept in mid-March in Dallas’s West Village neighborhood. Prior to Fiatto, Henson worked at acclaimed restaurants Flora Street Café, French Laundry and DBGB, and Dal Canton was the beverage director for Tom Colicchio’s Craft restaurants in Dallas and Los Angeles. The design was inspired by Southern Italy, with a Mediterranean feel, earth tones and green plants throughout the dining room and bar.

Agnolotti at Fiatto

The menu features house-made breads, pastas, mozzarella, sauces and stocks, and the chefs aim to source the majority of ingredients from local farmers and purveyors. Dishes include agnolotti stuffed with ricotta and spring peas, pork chop Milanese and trout saltimbocca.

Margot’s — New Orleans

Open since the first week of April, Margot’s is a new neighborhood restaurant on fun-loving Frenchman Street, located north of the French Quarter. Owner Brad Goocher, a cocktail veteran from Cane & Table, runs the bar, and Adrian Chelette (formerly of Ancora pizzeria) runs the kitchen. The menu is focused on wood-fired sourdough pizzas, natural wines and Italian cocktails.

Pizza at Margot’s

The tight menu features two salads (house and Caesar) and eight pizzas, including classics like margherita and pepperoni alongside creative pies like the Inverno, with roasted sweet potato, mascarpone, honey, chili flakes and black olives.