Whitewater’s Main Street business district made room for a slice of Little Italy when New Yorker Benny Spahiu brought his talents to Wisconsin. His success in New York pushed him to try to find more markets where pizza by the slice would be profitable, which led him to open La Piazza Pizzeria in Whitewater this March. The restaurant is open Wednesday through Saturday until 3 a.m. to give students a quick and cheap food option in the downtown area.

Spahiu uses his pizza platform to display his creativity in the kitchen by creating signature pizzas such as his buffalo chicken pizza, which has drawn a huge craze from reviewers thus far. Spahiu focuses on creating a special relationship with his clientele. He wants to create a give-and-take relationship with his pizza and hopes his future pizza creations continue to create excitement about the restaurant’s future