Raise your glass. An old friend has returned to Old Town. Almost 18 years after Italian wine bar Ciao Vino closed its doors on West Mountain Avenue, one of its original co-owners, Antonio Race, recently brought the eatery back to Fort Collins. Ciao Vino opened Aug. 2 at 255 Linden St., formerly home to Linden Street Cafe.

Since then, Race said old customers of the original Ciao Vino and his first Fort Collins restaurant, Pulcinella Ristorante — which left the city in 2006 after 15 years in business — walk through the doors of the new Ciao Vino nearly every night.