Vitale Lakeside Opens at Queens Landing: Mooresville's New Waterfront Destination

What is Vitale Lakeside in Mooresville? It is the rebuilt Queens Landing waterfront, at 1459 River Highway, and Vitale Hospitality Group opened the two-story restaurant and lounge to the public on Friday, November 6, 2026. The ground floor is a family-friendly dining room, the upstairs is the Bonnie & Clyde's cocktail lounge, and the dock holds 38 boat slips, which makes it the biggest boat-up setup on the Mooresville side of the lake. This is a clean directory guide, so there are no scores here, just what is on the menu, how the space splits, and the practical details that matter before you go.

What the new building brings to the Queens Landing site

Vitale Lakeside is built in two distinct halves. The ground-floor restaurant fills roughly 9,000 square feet, and the reporting around the opening describes the menu as Italian-leaning upscale comfort food: seafood, burgers, pizza, and steak, with an expansive patio that points at the water. That floor is the family-friendly room, the kind of space built for long lunches and early dinners with the whole crew.

The second floor is where the evening side lives. Bonnie & Clyde's is an upscale cocktail lounge around 6,000 square feet, with a 1,500-square-foot VIP area, a private room, a DJ booth, velvet drapes, and floor-to-ceiling lake views. The early plans also called for a rooftop stage, so the building is set up to host more than just dinner crowds once everything is fully online.

For boaters, the headline is the water access. 38 boat slips sit at the dock for people who want to tie up and eat, and a floating bar is slated to launch in March. That is a serious answer to the old problem of choosing between a lake view and a good meal; here the pitch is that you pull up in the boat and never park a car.

Why this opening matters in Lake Norman

The address matters before the food does. This land anchored Queens Landing, the lake's landmark waterfront entertainment complex since the early 1990s. The old dinner cruise boats no longer run there, and the site sat waiting for its next chapter. Vitale Lakeside is that chapter: a working restaurant and lounge on the water where the community used to gather for decades.

It also closes the loop on Mooresville's remarkable 2026. Downtown picked up the Kindreds' steakhouse Deepwell, Crave Cookies, and the family-run 29 Grill in the same span, and now the waterfront side of town has its anchor back. We walked through all of it in Mooresville's Big Dining Year.

The practical rundown

Operating hours and a phone number had not been widely published at the time of writing, which is normal for a venue in its first days. Check the restaurant's social pages and local listings for the current week, and give it a couple of weeks to settle before you plan a big group around it. The site sits at 1459 River Highway (NC 150) on the east side of the lake, right beside the McCrary Creek Access Area boat launch, so it is easy to find by water or by car.

The two floors split the crowd. The ground floor is the relaxed, family-friendly restaurant with the patio, and the upstairs lounge carries the VIP area and private room, which makes it the better fit for groups and later evenings. If you plan to arrive by boat, call ahead about a slip before you idle up, especially as the first warm weekends bring a crowd. And remember this is the soft season: November nights are quiet on the water, so a weekday visit in the opening weeks is a smart way to see the place without the launch-weekend rush.

Who Vitale Lakeside is for

What else is on the River Highway waterfront

Vitale Lakeside joins a short, strong waterfront row on the Mooresville side. Down the same road at 1162 River Highway, Big Daddy's Restaurant and Oyster Bar is the longtime casual waterfront with dock access, open daily. Around the bend at 643 Williamson Rd, Eddie's in Lake Norman is the boat-in bar and seafood spot best known for shrimp baskets and sunset margaritas. Between the three, you have a casual dock bar, a long-running oyster house, and now the big new two-story anchor, all on the east side of the lake.

For the full picture of eating by water, our waterfront restaurant list ranks the whole category, and the dinner-by-boat guide walks through every dock on the lake, slip by slip.

Vitale Lakeside in Mooresville, answered

Where is Vitale Lakeside in Mooresville?

Vitale Lakeside is at 1459 River Highway (NC 150) in Mooresville, NC 28117, on the east side of the lake at the old Queens Landing site, beside the McCrary Creek Access Area boat launch.

When did Vitale Lakeside open?

Vitale Lakeside held its grand opening Friday, November 6, 2026, after months of construction at the Queens Landing waterfront.

What is on the menu at Vitale Lakeside?

The ground-floor restaurant serves Italian-leaning upscale comfort food across seafood, burgers, pizza, and steak, with an expansive patio. The upstairs Bonnie & Clyde's is a cocktail lounge with floor-to-ceiling lake views.

Can you get to Vitale Lakeside by boat?

Yes. Vitale Lakeside built 38 boat slips for dock-and-dine, the largest boat-up setup on the Mooresville side of the lake, and a floating bar is planned for spring.

What is Bonnie & Clyde's at Vitale Lakeside?

Bonnie & Clyde's is the upscale second-floor cocktail lounge, around 6,000 square feet with a VIP area, a private room, a DJ booth, and floor-to-ceiling lake views.

What are Vitale Lakeside's hours?

Operating hours and a phone number had not been widely published at the time of writing. Check the restaurant's social pages and listings for the current week before you go.