City leaders announced this week that acclaimed Italian restaurant Partenope Ristorante will be opening in the Downtown area of Richardson’s CORE District in mid-2023. The restaurant will occupy 3,100 square feet of the 6,200-square-foot 110 S. Greenville Ave. building, located near the southwest corner of the Main Street/Greenville Avenue intersection. 

This is the first new full-service, sit-down restaurant slated for the Downtown area since the City substantially completed redevelopment planning efforts and major infrastructure investments in the CORE District. 

The restaurant is owned by Richardson residents Dino and Megan Santonicola, who opened their first Partenope in downtown Dallas in 2019. Partenope is known for Southern Italian authenticity and a living room-like, welcoming environment. The Richardson restaurant will offer many of the same sophisticated, hand-made pizzas and pastas as Partenope’s original location and will also feature a patio, providing more flexible seating options and more connectivity to the enhanced streetscape. 

Website: www.richardsoncoredistrict.com