Trailblazing chef Alfred Portale of Michelin-starred Gotham Bar & Grill is opening an Italian fine-dining restaurant in Chelsea — his first New York expansion in the restaurant space since he took over Gotham in 1985, one year after it opened.

His new restaurant arrives this fall, at 126 West 18th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues, where the now-shuttered Rouge Tomate once lived. It’ll be a 130-seat space with a 40-seat dining room, Portale tells Eater, and his first solo venture in NYC. The cuisine will lean toward “modern, contemporary” Italian, though with a nod toward the chef’s French training, he says.