How to spend a day at Bar Toma (opening tomorrow).

8 a.m. Get dressed. Unlike Spiaggia, this Tony Mantuano joint is casual.

9 a.m. Sidle up to the Italian-style coffee bar for Illy espresso, fresh citrus juice, and honey-ricotta cornetti (like croissants made from brioche).

11 a.m. Order a snack from the mozzarella bar: stuffed with San Marzano tomatoes or cured salmon, or creamy burrata with Sicilian sea salt (everything is sourced from Italy or the Midwest).

1 p.m. Several bar plates equals a delicious lunch: charred carrots with Capriole goat cheese, fried calamari with caper aioli, seared mortadella.

3 p.m. Don’t be shy. Try the Tomanata cocktail (sambuca, lemon, honey).

7 p.m. Time for thin-crust pizza from the wood-burning oven (lamb sausage with harissa and manchego, spicy meatball, littleneck clam).

9 p.m. Lick your way through tartufi or seasonal fruit gelato. Or, you know, both.

Bar Toma, 110 East Pearson Street, between Michigan Avenue and Rush Street (312-266-3110 or bartomachicago.com).

Photo: Jeff Kauck / Courtesy of Bar Toma