The Thunderdome Restaurant Group is getting ready to open another restaurant concept on Vine Street in Over-the-Rhine. Having already done tacos, fried chicken and burgers on the restaurant row of Vine Street, they are now turning to Italian.

"It's going to be something very different from other Italian restaurants in town," said Joe Lanni, one of Thunderdome's owners. It will feature fresh pasta made in-house, served in both traditional and more creative styles. They'll have a pasta extruder, so they can make shapes like spaghetti and tubular pastas.

It will be like the other Thunderdome restaurants – Bakersfield, The Eagle and Kreuger's Tavern, all on Vine Street – in that it will feature bar drinks, be tightly thematic and serve dishes in smallish servings that can encourage tasting and trying with friends. "It's a Thunderdome restaurant," said Lanni. "Meaning it will be moderately priced." Thunderdome also owns Maplewood and the Currito restaurants.

With two floors of rooms, on-street and basement levels, there will be room to seat about 100. The building, at 1434 Vine St., across from Kroger and just north of Sacred Beast, is a property of 3CDC, with which the Thunderdome group has partnered before. There are condos on the upper floors.

So far, the restaurant does not have a name. Construction will begin mid-January and Lanni says they hope to open in the spring.

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