San Morello at the Shinola Hotel, Detroit

A creamy burrata appetizer is garnished with fava beans, arugula pesto, and opal basil.

People enjoy the patio area at the San Morello restaurant along Woodward Avenue in Detroit.

Chef de cuisine  Cory Barberio eases an "OG" pie out of the wood-fired oven. The pizza is topped with pepperoni, 'nduja, and Fresno chilies.

Diners enjoy the sidewalk patio area at San Morello at the Shinola Hotel in Detroit.

San Morello Italian restaurant in Detroit.

A trio of lunchers settle into a cozy corner table at San Morello, the new Italian eatery in the Shinola Hotel in Detroit.

An "OG" pizza, straight outta the wood-fired oven, is topped with pepperoni, 'nduja, and Fresno chilies.

Chef de cuisine Cory Barberio shows off an "OG" pie, hot out of the wood-fired oven. The pizza is topped with pepperoni, 'nduja, and Fresno chilies.

One of the house cocktails is called the "Tricolore Spritz," a mixture of lime, mint, cucumber syrup, gin, Prosecco and Peychaud’s bitters that bears the same colors as the Italian flag.

A Sicilian pistachio cake is paired with an olive oil gelato which is itself crowned with a dollop of the liquid gold.

Shinola Hotel pastry chef Jessica Leung tops an olive oil gelato with a few drops of the golden liquid.

A pasta dish of malfadini, rapini pesto, and sweet and sour peppers is topped with pine nuts.

In the open kitchen, pasta cook Devin Salbut plates a dish of malfadini, rapini pesto, sweet and sour peppers and pine nuts.

A beet carpaccio antipasti is complimented by Idyll Farms goat cheese, hazelnuts and pickled cherries.

A lone woman sits at the wood and marble bar inside San Morello.

Lead bartender Chas Williams selects a bunch of fresh mint to make a house cocktail called the "Tricolore Spritz," a mixture of lime, cucumber syrup, gin, Prosecco and Peychaud’s bitters that bears the same colors as the Italian flag.

Lead bartender Chas Williams tops a house cocktail called the "Tricolore Spritz" with Peychaud’s bitters. The drink is a mixture of lime, cucumber syrup, gin, and Prosecco that bears the same colors as the Italian flag.

One of the house cocktails is called the "Tricolore Spritz," a mixture of lime, mint, cucumber syrup, gin, Prosecco and Peychaud’s bitters that bears the same colors as the Italian flag.

Jamila Thompson, left, of Detroit, shares a laughter-filled lunch with Troy Larson, of Birmingham, at the new Italian eatery San Morello, inside the Shinola Hotel in Detroit.

(Left to right) Jamila Thompson, of Detroit, shares a laughter-filled lunch with Troy Larson, of Birmingham, as server Tahirah Muhammad gets in on the fun.