Johns Creek is about to gain a new Italian restaurant with origins that reach well beyond metro Atlanta.
Nonna Lucia Italian is preparing to open at 11030 Medlock Bridge Road, Suite 160, with a mid-August debut planned. The restaurant is being developed by Rome native Alexander Richards, who has spent much of his life working in hospitality and most recently managed di Paolo in Roswell.
Richards began working around restaurants as a child and later built experience in Italy, Australia, England and the United States. Nonna Lucia is his attempt to bring that background together in a restaurant centered more specifically on Roman cooking and the style of hospitality he grew up around…