Lucy Anne’s opens in downtown Spartanburg with Southern Italian comfort food

Michael Rednak has opened Lucy Anne’s at 148 W Main St in downtown Spartanburg, putting collard green agnolotti and Hoppin’ John arancini on a menu built around Southern-Italian comfort food. The restaurant is open Tuesday through Saturday from 5 to 10 p.m., with reservations and tickets handled through Tock.

Lucy Anne’s does not read like a standard Italian debut. The restaurant calls itself “A Modern Take on Grandma’s Kitchen,” and its About page describes the concept as “A Southern Trattoria,” signaling a kitchen that is using Italian forms to carry Southern ingredients and memories rather than simply layering one cuisine onto another. That approach gives Spartanburg a chef-driven dining room with a clearer point of view than a generic neighborhood opening.

The dishes that have surfaced so far show how far Rednak is pushing that idea. Collard green agnolotti brings one of Italy’s most recognizable filled pastas into Southern territory, while Hoppin’ John arancini turns a regional staple into a crisp, handheld rice dish. Those are the kinds of plates that make a restaurant feel like a destination instead of just another downtown dinner option, especially for diners who already know the comfort of pasta and want to see it bent toward a new place.

The setting adds to that pull. Lucy Anne’s sits in the old bank downtown, with a vault still part of the building’s identity, which gives the restaurant a visual hook in a city center where new openings are often measured by whether they can keep people downtown after work. At 148 W Main St, the room is positioned to catch residents, office workers, and visitors looking for a reason to linger instead of heading home.

Rednak has built Lucy Anne’s around that overlap of memory, neighborhood, and food. The name, the grandmother references, the Southern trattoria branding, and the pasta-forward menu all point to a restaurant meant to feel personal before it feels polished. In downtown Spartanburg, that combination turns a new address on West Main into a place with enough character to matter beyond its first dinner service.