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Carmelo’s owners to open new chop house in Fort Wright

The Carmelo’s team is headed even further south into Kentucky with their next restaurant. Billy Grise and Mitch Arens, the co-owners of the Italian restaurant that’s taken Covington by storm since it opened in November 2024, are opening an American chop house in Fort Wright, Kentucky. The location of the new restaurant is the building the former Fort Wright Frisch’s Big Boy occupied on 20 Kyles Lane until it moved to Orphanage Road in August.…