An award-winning pizza shop in Chelsea is expanding to Somerville.
Edson Coimbra, co-owner of Ciao! Pizza and Pasta at 59 Williams St. in Chelsea, told MassLive via email Thursday that his business partner Marvin Posada is venturing out solo to Somerville.
Coimbra did not specify when the restaurant will be opening.
An Instagram story from Posada on Jan. 4 showed a video of the “first fire” in the charcoal oven at the new location. The restaurant is reportedly opening at 688 Broadway in Ball Square, according to Boston Restaurant Talk. MassLive has reached out to Posada for more details and confirmation.
Ciao! Pizza and Pasta opened in Chelsea in 2015, bringing some of the best Neapolitan pizza to Boston, according to the restaurant’s website.
“The response from both our Chelsea neighborhood and the wider food community of Greater Boston was beyond expectations. We had reached our first goal of serving an under served community,” the website reads.
Ciao! was placed second on Yelp’s list of top pizza spots in the U.S. and Canada in 2023, named to Food Network’s 2018 list of Best Pizzas in America’s Biggest Cities and voted the best pizza in Boston by Boston Magazine in 2017.
