Happy Friday!

TGIF everyone! Hope you all had great weeks! Last night, my bestie Jimmy arrived in Charlotte to visit me from Boston. We met during college in Boston and have been best friends ever since! He has a crazy job and always works weekends so it is hard to plan trips to see each other. He was supposed to go to NYC to meet up with me last weekend, but all the craziness and lock down in Boston prevented that so he booked a flight to come see me :) 

cutie on the patio

Apart from our media company that I work for, my dad also owns a restaurant group. We have 14 Mexican restaurants in the surrounding Atlanta suburbs (Frontera Mex-Mex Grill), a fine dining steakhouse in Alpharetta, GA (Pampas Steakhouse), and an Italian restaurant in Duluth, GA. We have been working on opening our Italian concept, Luciano's Ristorante, in Charlotte for over a year and we FINALLY open on Monday!!! I am beyond thrilled to have it here and I cannot wait eat there as much as possible. The one in GA is less than a mile from my house and we always end up picking up dinner or going in for a quick bite. I love Luciano's because it is not a typical restaurant - we have TOP NOTCH food and service and best of all - at a great price! Our Charlotte location is located on 1910 South Blvd (where La Paz used to be) - in front of Sullivan's steakhouse. We had a little private family there last night, it was divine. SO EXCITED!! :) 

ALMOST OPEN!

 

Naty making the flat bread

amazing salads and wine 

cheating with pizza ahhh - so good though!

We have a preview dinner for friends and family tonight - cannot wait! Tomorrow, I will probably be going to brunch and hanging out with Jimmy and then Sunday we have our first Cinco de Mayo event of three (working all day)! Have a great weekend everyone!!! :)