After about six months of renovations, business partners Ben Burda and Drake Doepke have opened their new Florabella restaurant and cafe at 500 Brooks Street. The building, which was the longtime home of the popular Caffe Dolce, has been transformed on the inside and now features an in-house bakery, a coffee shop and a redone kitchen that will serve both lunch and dinner fare, Italian-style.

“We just tried to enhance what it already is, to update it and make it fresh and young and energetic,” Burda explained. “And then the food is that as well. This like young, new way of doing things like they do in Milan, rather than like they do in Florence with the old classic Renaissance, right?”