Moscow-based Brothers and Company plans to open a new Italian restaurant Sbarro in Nizhny Novgorod before the end of 2007, company's press office reports.

The region's second Sbarro outlet will be located in a new shopping and leisure center Fantastika (Fantastic) in Rodionov Street.

The 300 square meters restaurant is to be opened on the first floor of the Fantastika shopping and leisure center.

The city’s largest development company Stolitsa Nizhny, specializing in commercial real estate, is to inaugurate Fantastika on October 27, 2007.

The average cost of a meal in Sbarro is estimated at 175 rubles ($7). The total investment drawn into the project have not been disclosed.