While procrastinating partners were scrambling Tuesday for last-minute Valentine’s Day gifts, Deneb Williams and Elizabeth-Rose Mandalou were busy opening Allora, their newest restaurant, in East Sacramento.

Both husband and wife love seafood, and Williams grew up surrounded by ocean life in the Puget Sound. But the Italian restaurant’s inspiration is found on the 22-foot wine tower stocked with Italian grapes as well as a few Greek productions, the latter of which have been Allora’s best sellers despite their relative lack of popularity across the U.S.