A local restaurateur and co-founder of the Boston Pizza Festival is channeling his love of red sauce into a new restaurant in East Boston. Raffaele Scalzi teamed up with Caffe Dello Sport’s Mivan Spencer to create Pazza on Porter, an Italian-American restaurant and bar set to officially open on Friday, with limited reservations available starting on Wednesday.

The pasta-centric concept will debut in the former Craft Table & Bar space, though Pazza’s private dining room nods to an even earlier tenant: its signature-covered wall (spot the scribbles from Ted Williams, Diana Ross, and Steven Tyler) is a leftover from Sablone’s Veal N’ Vintage, which closed in 2002.