Trattoria Bugatti brings modern Italian dining to Dallas Monday

A new Trattoria Bugatti will open at 3850 W. Northwest Hwy., Suite 1190, bringing a modern Italian dining room to Midway Hollow and placing the Bugatti name back in the neighborhood conversation just steps from the original Bugatti Ristorante footprint. The restaurant opens Monday, April 20, as a collaboration between the Bugatti family and Odeh Restaurant Group, with Executive Chef Erin Willis leading the kitchen and mixologist Chris Henley of Betty Cocktail shaping the drinks.

The point of the opening is not reinvention for its own sake. Michael and Zee Bugatti have framed the restaurant as a more modern expression of a Dallas brand that has long been tied to “tradition and nostalgia,” while Trattoria Bugatti is meant to feel “fresh, bright, and evolving” for a new generation of diners. That makes the project both a legacy play and a modernization effort, keeping the family name visible while changing the room, the pace and the kind of meal it wants to be.

The menu shows that shift clearly. Pasta sits at the center of the concept, not as a side note. Trattoria Bugatti is built around fresh-made pasta, including housemade fettuccine Alfredo made the traditional way Willis learned in Italy, with butter, garlic and parmesan and no cream. The lineup also includes Sachetti Shrimp Scampi with ricotta-stuffed pasta, shrimp, butter, white wine, lemon and herbs, Lasagna “Rotta” with housemade meatballs, ricotta, Pecorino and broken sheet noodle, and Gnocchi Bolognese with potato gnocchi, pancetta, tri-blend beef, vegetables, tomatoes and parmesan. A ditalini dish rounds out the pasta section and reinforces the restaurant’s comfort-food angle.

That pasta program is backed by a local supply chain. Trattoria Bugatti is sourcing fresh pasta from Fresh Pasta Delights in Plano, a family-owned artisan maker founded in 1984, alongside North Texas names such as Lubbies Bagels and Botolino Gelato. The menu also stretches beyond pasta into antipasti, salads, pizza, sandwiches, steak and an aperitivo service from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., giving the restaurant the range to work for a quick drink, a weekday dinner or a fuller celebration.

The dining room is designed to match that broader audience. Dallas-based Hohe Design Group created the space with Ashley Odeh, using layered greens, vintage artwork and a modern bar to push the room toward polished neighborhood-restaurant territory rather than old-school red-sauce nostalgia. For Bugatti, whose restaurant family has served Dallas since 1980 and reopened Bugatti Ristorante in Farmers Branch in 2025 at Mercer Boardwalk after its relocation, Trattoria Bugatti is the next step in keeping the brand alive by making it look and feel current.