The likes of Spacca Napoli and Forno Rosso have new competition in the Six Corners Shopping District, as the long-awaited Neapolitan eatery Taurus fired up its brick oven for the first time Monday. After ending a two-year legal battle with an absentee contractor, owners Rado and Silvana Vidakovic became the latest entrepreneurs to breathe life into a vacant Milwaukee Avenue storefront with their soft opening for dinner service at 4024 N. Milwaukee Ave. 

The couple, and head chef Michael Morris — formerly of Zia's Trotteria, Iron Horse Ale House and the next-door Community Tavern — built their menu to strike a balance with an upscale, sit-down experience that doesn't blow open neighbors' budgets, they said.