Eastern Market pizza restaurant to bring more rustic Italian dining to neighborhood

Rustic Italian will be on the menu when Piazza Detroit opens its doors in Eastern Market later this year. The restaurant is slated for the old Del Bene building on Russell St. at Winder.

Piazza will serve pizza, pasta, salads, soups and steaks; everything will be cooked in oak-fired ovens. The restaurant will span the basement and the first floor, approximately 6-7,000 square feet. It will seat 140 people.

Scot Turnbull and his partners in the venture bought the building because of its location and determined that a restaurant was perfect for the space. “There is a great crowd that visits the market every day,” he says.

Initially, lunch and dinner will be served, but Sunday brunch is being considered.

Turnbull is also contemplating opening a boutique hotel with seven to 10 rooms and banquet space on the upper floors of the building.

Source: Scot Turnbull, Piazza Detroit
Writer: Kelli B. Kavanaugh