Hilton Head Island is set to welcome a new Italian restaurant owned by a popular New Jersey chef. Nunzio Patruno, a noted chef, is renovating a building on New Orleans Road and expects it to open by March. “We plan to improvise with a lot of seafood and homemade pasta,” Patruno said Wednesday. “We want a lighter menu.” The restaurant will be at 18 New Orleans Road, which was the former home of Reebook Crossfit.

Patruno has added a kitchen around 1,300 square-feet along with several new windows, a large bar area and two outdoor seating areas. The restaurant is expected to seat 175 people. Patruno has seen wide success with a Nunzio Ristorante Rustico restaurant in New Jersey. That restaurant opened in 2003 and has been reviewed by The New York Times among others.