Fells Point pizza shop hits the market

Brick Oven Pizza of Fells Point, a longtime restaurant nicknamed B.O.P. that helped introduce wood-fired pizza to Baltimore before it was trendy, is on the market. Owner Zion Gavriel bought the 30-year-old pizza shop a year ago but said he has decided he doesn’t want to stay in the restaurant business. He said he purchased it because of the key Fells Point location and foot traffic at the corner of Broadway Square. The restaurant sits directly across from Bertha’s, the famed mussels bar and restaurant that is in negotiations to sell before it closes at the end of the year. The B.O.P. building at 800 S. Broadway, owned by 800 S. Broadway Associated L.P., is not for sale, Gavriel said.