Interiors for an Italian Trattoria housing a full bar and lounge accommodating seventy people, banquet and private meeting facilities, a one hundred fifty seat dining room, a take out storefront facing a pedestrian street to the rear of the facility and an open display kitchen featuring a pizza menu with fast casual style seating near the front entrance of the restaurant.


The completed restaurant’s interior resembles the namesake town in Italy where a bareback horse race takes place annually. The restaurant features include colorful graphics alluding to the flags of various villages participating in the event, which concludes in the town square.


The original owner of the restaurant was from this region of Italy thus the interior design evolved from his guidance along with research into the history and festivities surrounding this renowned summer event.


Shortly after opening Palio d’Asti was featured on the cover and in what is now known as Hospitality Design magazine. It has been in continuous operation for almost thirty years. No longer owned by John Fazio who returned to Italy, the current owners are the DiGrande family.


An expansive restaurant of almost six thousand five hundred square feet, Palio d’Asti was originally completed for a budget of one million four hundred thousand dollars.