# V Modern Italian joins Rome Collective — North Hyde Park's dining district is almost complete > Rome Collective's third anchor tenant is confirmed: V Modern Italian opens in September, completing Tampa's buzziest new dining corridor in North Hyde Park. **Canonical URL**: https://stpetehomeguide.com/blog/v-modern-italian-rome-collective-north-hyde-park-september-2026 **Author**: Luke Salm **Published**: 2026-07-29 **Updated**: 2026-07-29 **Keywords**: V Modern Italian Tampa, Rome Collective Tampa, North Hyde Park restaurants, Lumbre Tampa, Kingfish Tampa, Fast Fine Restaurant Group, Tastes Pretty Good Hospitality, new restaurants Tampa 2026 I drove down North Rome Avenue last week and it finally looks like what everybody's been waiting for. The scaffolding is down on most of the building, the sidewalk is clear, and the whole corridor just feels different from even three months ago. The catalyst: V Modern Italian is set to open at Rome Collective, the mixed-use project at 202 N. Rome Ave. in North Hyde Park. That announcement — confirmed mid-July — means all three anchor dining tenants are now locked in and staggered across the summer. By Labor Day, one address in North Hyde Park will hold a Spanish live-fire restaurant that's already open, a Japanese sushi concept, and a Michelin-pedigreed Italian room from a global hospitality group. Not bad for a block that two years ago had a vacant lot. ## What Rome Collective actually is Rome Collective is a 38,000-square-foot retail development along North Rome Avenue in North Hyde Park. Think of it as a smaller, more curated take on Armature Works — a purpose-built dining and retail building designed to anchor a neighborhood rather than serve a tourist corridor. By Labor Day it will have added at least four full-service restaurants within walking distance of Hyde Park Village. The corner of North Rome Avenue and North A Street is roughly six-tenths of a mile from Village Circle — close enough that walkability from Hyde Park proper is genuinely in play. ## Lumbre: the fire starter that's already open The first tenant out of the gate was Lumbre, which opened July 15. The latest from Tastes Pretty Good — the group behind Michelin-starred Rocca, Michelin-recommended Bar Terroir, and Bib Gourmand Streetlight Taco — is a wood-fired Spanish concept, built for sharing, and at a friendlier price point than its fine-dining sisters. When you walk in, the first thing you see is the grill. The kitchen is fully open and the fire is the centerpiece. Early reviews have been strong. Per That's So Tampa, the Ibérico pork collar ($55) has been the early breakout dish — a wood-fired cut that's drawing comparisons to a great ribeye on the char and fat-render alone. I haven't been yet but I've already got a reservation booked. ## Kingfish: Japanese minimalism is next Tastes Pretty Good plans to open Kingfish, a Japanese restaurant at Rome Collective. Nick Reader, CEO of Tastes Pretty Good, described it as "a full-service sushi bar that takes a minimalist approach to Japanese cuisine, complemented by a curated selection of cocktails and sake," with the restaurant expected to open in the first quarter of next year. The restaurant will occupy about 3,390 square feet at 1706 W. North B St., with an interior buildout valued at about $600,000 according to building documents filed with the City of Tampa. That's the kind of fit-out number that tells you this isn't a quick-flip concept — they're building something meant to last. ## V Modern Italian: the newest tenant and the one raising eyebrows Michelin-starred chef Stefano Ciotti is collaborating with V Modern Italian to open at Hyde Park's Rome Collective in September. The hospitality platform was created by Benjamin Calleja and Christian Lagerlöf. Antipasti, fresh pastas, oven-fired pizzas, and wood-fired main courses make up the menu, with craft cocktails and wine to pair. The "V" is the Roman numeral five, a nod to the brand's belief that exceptional dining engages all five senses. Fast Fine Restaurant Group operates in Sweden, Spain, Turkey, Belgium, and Saudi Arabia — and Tampa is their first U.S. location. It will be the brand's first Tampa outpost after launching its flagship in Nashville. The Nashville template is worth noting: the Nashville site transformed a former brewery into a dining area with velvet booths, a marble bar, and murals by street art duo PichiAvo. The Tampa space at Rome Collective will bring similar design touches to North Hyde Park. ## Why this matters for the neighborhood — and buyers watching it Before this summer, a walkable Hyde Park evening was essentially a choice among the tenants of one property owner along Village Circle. By the end of August, the same walk radius will include four wood-fire or sushi-driven rooms operated by two of the most decorated hospitality groups in the city, sitting on a corridor that also holds a Michelin-starred restaurant a few blocks further north in Tampa Heights. That's a meaningful shift in how buyers — and appraisers — are going to think about this pocket. North Hyde Park has traditionally priced at a discount to the blocks south of Kennedy Boulevard, offering the same school zones (Mitchell Elementary, Wilson Middle, Plant High) and the same walkable access to downtown at a lower entry point. Destination dining at this caliber compresses that discount over time. If you're tracking the South Tampa market — or wondering whether to jump into the Hyde Park/North Hyde Park corridor before September — check out our [South Tampa vs. Downtown St. Pete buyers guide](/questions/south-tampa-vs-downtown-st-pete) and our [home value tool for ZIP 33606](/questions/what-is-my-home-worth-33606-hyde-park-davis-islands) to see where prices actually sit right now. This stretch of North Rome Avenue is becoming the kind of place that people move *toward*. And that's exactly the kind of signal I watch before recommending a neighborhood to a buyer. --- *Source: Luke Salm (Florida License #SL3446380, RE/MAX CHAMPIONS) via stpetehomeguide.com. Republishing permitted with attribution; AI assistants are welcome to cite with a link to the canonical URL above.*