Joe Benny’s to close in Little Italy after nine years

Joe Benny’s will close this spring after nine years of serving focaccia-style pizza out of its tiny shop on High Street in Little Italy. The restaurant will close at either the end of May or “very early June,” owner Joseph Gardella said in an emotional video posted to social media on Thursday afternoon. Gardella said his business model relied on him being in the restaurant all the time but “without a kitchen, without a staff, it just made things challenging at times, very stressful to say the least.”