Cincinnati's VV the Italian Experience is getting a new cafe in CVG

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The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport is getting a new restaurant for travelers.

VV the Italian Experience, a Cincinnati-based brand with a location in Mount Lookout, is scheduled to open at CVG in early 2026, according to a news release from the airport.

Construction is underway at the former Regina’s Italian Kitchen, located near Gate B17 in Concourse B.

The Pugliese-style eatery will be open all day and offer breakfast, appetizers, soups, salads, handhelds and entrees. Examples of menu items include piadina, pasta bolognese and pasta alla genovese.

VV opened its first location on Mount Lookout Square in 2023. The owners moved to Cincinnati from Puglia about a decade prior.

Enquirer food and dining writer Keith Pandolfi said in a review of the cafe he had “never seen a place in Cincinnati that is so quintessentially Italian.”