At long last: Faccia Brutta and Bar Pallino are due to open in May on Newbury Street. The coastal Italian-inspired restaurant and adjacent bar, set between Fairfield and Gloucester Streets, are from chefs Ken Oringer and Jamie Bissonnette.

“This has been in the works for quite some time,” Oringer told Boston.com. “We had the property earmarked. We had everything earmarked.” Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, which halted the James Beard Award-winning chefs’ plans to expand their successful partnership, JK Food Group, which began in 2005 with Spanish tapas bar Toro, followed by Coppa and Little Donkey.