{"id":297765,"date":"2025-10-12T17:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/297765\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T17:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:03:27","slug":"la-casa-toscana-opens-in-moneta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/297765\/","title":{"rendered":"La Casa Toscana opens in Moneta"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONETA, VA. (WSET) \u2014 La Casa Toscana, a new Italian restaurant, has opened its doors in Moneta, bringing authentic flavors to the Smith Mountain Lake community.<\/p>\n

The menu offers a variety of dishes, including pasta, steak, seafood, and chicken, ensuring there is something delicious for everyone.<\/p>\n

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Co-owner and chef Francisco Machado said, “We can do a private event or a romantic dinner outside in the dining room, so we can create something special for the guests, something different out of the menu. I love cooking. So, there’s some made me like my flavors. Like when I start cooking, all the flavors come into my mind, I try to put it together, like to have a delicious tasting in every single dish we make.<\/p>\n

Machado is ready and excited for what the future holds.<\/p>\n

“It is something new for me. So, I just, I just moved from Key West, Florida, so to open this new restaurant with my brother and brother-in-law. So, it’s like a new adventure. It’s something new for me and my life,” Machado said.<\/p>\n

Located on 16483 Moneta Rd., the restaurant operates Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONETA, VA. (WSET) \u2014 La Casa Toscana, a new Italian restaurant, has opened its doors in Moneta, bringing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":297766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[151837,1582,276,151838,134931,2961,151835,224,5337,151836,71382,20958,41290],"class_list":{"0":"post-297765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-authentic-flavors","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-francisco-machado","12":"tag-italian-restaurant","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-casa-toscana","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-moneta","18":"tag-pasta","19":"tag-seafood","20":"tag-steak"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115362280580907128","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}