“Spaghetti and meatballs, bread sticks and lasagna are not what the new Italian restaurant Sassella — opening sometime in early July — is all about.

Sassella, adjacent to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, will offer menu items like Frito de Misto di Mare y Vegetali — colossal shrimp, calamari, smelt fish, artichoke, zucchini, agrumato (crushed olive) aioli and mielle mustarda (honey mustard).

Executive chef and co-owner Cristian Pontiggia picked up this dish in coastal Liguria, the Italian region along the Mediterranean Sea that curves around the boot toward France…”