Bringing authentic Italian cuisine to the Grand Strand since 1985, Villa Romana is celebrating 40 years of business. The restaurant is a family business, owned by husband and wife, Fran and Rinaldo Montrosse. It’s located in downtown Myrtle Beach, but when you walk through the doors, it’s as if you are in Rome, where Rinaldo is from. And it’s his mother’s style of cooking that lives on through the entrees. 

Now reaching four decades of serving the community, the head chef and general manager Vince Pappas said they owe it all to the local clientele. “We depend greatly upon the locals, and so we try to give back to that community every day,” he said. “They take very good care of us without our locals we would not be here.”