It’s official: After hosting a pair of friends and family dinners tonight and tomorrow, Johnny Nunn’s Corzetti will open to the general public this Friday, May 25th. The new Italian restaurant, courtesy of French restaurant Verdigris, will help bolster an already food-friendly corner on NE Prescott and 15th, which has long been home to Grain & Gristle and Pok Pok Noi.

“For me, this is like a graduation,” Nunn says. “I get to finally cook the food that I like to cook and that I like to eat on my days off.” What that looks like is an amalgamation of starters (asparagus with a parmesan-sabayon), pastas (eggplant tortellini, corzetti stampadi), classic Italian dishes (spaghetti and meatballs, gnocchi cacio e pepe), and a solid roaster of daily specials (cast iron chickens on Tuesdays, shellfish cioppino on Fridays, and three-course family spreads on Sundays).