Flavio, a popular pick for Italian food in Georgetown, will expand to Cathedral Heights next year with plans to build a restaurant and speakeasy inside a well-established space near the neighborhood’s main strip. Co-owner Mekki Karrakchou says the outpost could open by February in the old Cafe Deluxe building at 3228 Wisconsin Avenue NW. Chef Geoff Tracy shuttered his American bistro there after 25 years in 2019.

Flavio’s Italian menu includes a long list of stone-baked pizzas, branzino, chicken Parmesan mains, and pastas like a lobster diavolo and wild mushroom ravioli. A weekday happy hour includes $9-and-under pizzas, starters, and Aperol spritzes. Flavio 2.0 will be filled with “more contemporary decor with few new dishes,” Karrakchou says, and the plan is to bring in a consulting chef from Rome.