New upscale Italian restaurants opens in Raleigh's Westin

Details: Il Falò will serve breakfast and dinner seven days a week. It will offer a Mother's Day brunch buffet this Sunday featuring lemon ricotta waffles and crushed avocado bruschetta.

• The regular menu highlights Italian dishes, including a dry-aged pork chop with fennel pollen, sweet and sour cherry peppers and crisped potatoes,; plus a bistecca pizza with Angus strip steak, caramelized onions, mushrooms, Italian cheeses and aged balsamic.
• Regular lunch and weekend brunch offerings will be added later, according to a press release.

Some of the locally sourced ingredients used include:

• Farm & Sparrow fresh-milled grains for sourdough pizza dough and house-made pastas
• Tingen Farm beef
• Truffles from Charlotte-based Toska Truffles
• Fox Farm & Forage mushrooms
• Boxcarr Handmade Cheese, Goat Lady Dairy, and Chapel Hill Creamery cheeses
• Bread from La Farm Bakery
• Amorino Gelato.