Sartiano’s, the highly anticipated restaurant from prominent tastemaker Scott Sartiano’s Bond Hospitality, opens at SoHo’s Mercer Hotel on Thursday. And like at Bond Hospitality’s Zero Bond, the private membership club that’s been frequented by Eric Adams, Tom Brady and Kim Kardashian, the focus is on making a lasting impression in downtown New York.

Sartiano believes there would be no point in opening this Italian restaurant, which channels his family’s Naples roots and boasts acclaimed chef Alfred Portale as its culinary director, if he didn’t see the potential to create a “legacy” here.