You can almost smell the sauces from those family recipes. Almost. “It’s been one thing after another,” Antonella Scibilia, 47, says about the Italian restaurant she was hoping to have open this month downtown. “I don’t even know if it will be July, but it’s coming.”

And be assured, when “Antonella’s Italian Ristorante – A Touch of Italy” does open along Hay Street across from the Arts Council of Fayetteville-Cumberland County, it will be a welcome addition and you will not be disappointed. Italian cuisine is in her bloodline.