Downtown Albany Expands Culinary Landscape With Japanese-Italian Fusion Restaurant, Itameshi Is Now Open
October 7, 2025
A new restaurant is bringing Japanese-Italian fusion cuisine to downtown Albany. Itameshi is located at 745 Broadway on the ground-floor of Industrie Apartments, which was developed by The Rosenblum Companies. Itameshi officially opened Tuesday.
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Developed and co-owned by veteran restaurateurs Mike Pietrocola of Pastina and Dave Zheng—owner of Sake Café, Graney’s Bar & Grill, and Tanpopo Ramen & Sake Bar — Itameshi draws inspiration from a genre of fusion cuisine popularized in Japan in the 1990s. The name itself is a Japanese term for “Italian food,” and the restaurant reimagines classic Italian dishes using Japanese ingredients and techniques.
The restaurant features seating for approximately 80 guests, a full bar serving specialty cocktails, and a menu that includes squid ink spaghettini with uni sauce and tobiko, wagyu meatballs, miso salmon with purple rice, udon noodle bolognese—and more. Itameshi is open Tuesday through Saturday from 4 to 10 p.m. or later, with happy hour running from 4 to 6 p.m. For more information and to view the full menu, visit www.ItameshiAlbany.com.
Industrie Apartments, completed in 2024, is a five-story, more than $22 million mixed-use development featuring 80 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments and street-level commercial space which is now home to Itameshi. Newly constructed on a former parking lot, Industrie is the first zero-emission multifamily apartment building in the City of Albany.
Industrie Apartments was made possible with support from the City of Albany Industrial Development Agency (IDA). This investment is projected to generate a net-benefit of more than $2.5 million to local taxing jurisdictions over its PILOT period alone.
Industrie is Rosenblum’s second multifamily project in downtown Albany. The first, 17 Chapel Boutique Condominiums, completed in 2011, helped catalyze downtown’s residential growth. Today, more than 1,000 multifamily apartment units have been completed in the downtown core and warehouse district, supporting a vibrant mix of retail, dining, cultural and outdoor destinations like the nearby Skyway and Clinton Market Collective.
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