Restaurant dedicated to the legendary Italian actress, Sophia Loren, will open its doors in Hong Kong. The “Sophia Loren House” is the chain’s first restaurant outside of Italy and will open in mid-April in Hong Kong’s Wanchai district.

The restaurant will operate in the four-story Woo Cheong Pawn Shop, a Hong Kong heritage building.

The space will be dedicated to the Italy of the 1960s and 1970s, the era of Federico Fellini’s film “La Dolce Vita” and also to the peak of Sophia Loren’s film career.

The restaurant, like the other four in Italy, was designed by the Italian architect Ivo Maria Rentaelli, who has chosen for the decoration many works of art on the subject of Sophia Loren.

Each floor of the restaurant will offer different suggestions for food, on the ground floor will be the Neapolitan pizzeria, on the first floor there is an Italian restaurant with seafood and classic dishes. The third floor features a retro 1970s themed dance floor and the rooftop is home to a cocktail bar.

“I have had many passions in my life and one of them is undoubtedly food,” Lauren said in a statement. “No director has ever been able to force me on a diet – and the hours I spent in the kitchen kneading, frying and baking were some of the happiest of my life. When they asked me to create a chain of restaurants in my honor, I gladly agreed to this wonderful adventure and I am proud to be part of a group of talented Neapolitans who wish to export the “truth” of Neapolitan cuisine to the world” the actress said, according to THR.

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Sophia Loren House in Hong Kong will be the chain’s fifth restaurant. Sophia Loren opened her first restaurant in Florence in 2021 in partnership with Neapolitan businessman and politician Luciano Cimino, and the chain has since expanded to Milan, Rome’s Fiumicino Airport and Bari.