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Updated: Wednesday, 25 Mar 2009, 12:28 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 19 Mar 2009, 12:16 PM EDT
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - If you've passed by the building coming up along fast-food ally in West Lafayette, you've probably wondered what it is.
"I know there's a lot of buzz about it because people have been stopping down here asking," said Aaron Turner, Sorrento Italian Restaurant Manager. "Once they hear it's Sorrento, they get excited."
The restaurant is currently housed a ways off Sagamore Parkway behind the site of the former West Lafayette K-Mart. Turner said the move will be better for business.
"Since K-Mart left, business has kind of dropped a little bit," he said. "We just wanted to be more visible."
Turner said Sorrento has been around for many years, at one time positioned at the corner of Salisbury Street and Sagamore parkway as a fine dining restaurant.
As a throwback for some of its original customers and its retired owner John Purvis, Sorrento is bringing back a few favorites.
"So, we just wanted, as a tribute to John, we're kind of bringing back some of the Sorrento thing because he enjoyed that more," Turner said. "Some of the new items is going to be salmon. We're going to bring back a favorite dish chicken darnell, which is a chicken and shrimp dish. We've got shrimp scampi, lobster ravioli."
Turner said the new restaurant will be classified as casual dining and will continue to feature Pizza King pizza. He expects the building to be finished at the end of May.
New Sorrento Italian Restaurant building off Sagamore Parkway in West Lafayette.
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