Alto cucina has arrived to the Dallas Arts District with the March 10 opening of La Stella Cucina Verace, an elevated Italian restaurant with star power. Serving only dinner for now, La Stella inhabits the former Flora Street Cafe space at 2330 Flora Street.

It’s from Giuseppe “JP” Piccinini, Luigi Iannuario, and Riccardo Ravaglia, three guys who know the charms of Italian cuisine; Iannuario and Ravaglia both helmed Da Mario, the brief-tenured Italian restaurant that insiders favored at The Star in Frisco (the restaurant closed in 2020 due to the pandemic.