A deli debacle has given way to a pizza and pasta revival in Boca Raton. Veteran restaurateur Burt Rapoport says he is bringing back Prezzo, his popular Italian restaurant from the 1990s, to the site where two New York-style delicatessens flopped this year.

Rappy’s, a modern twist on the classic Jewish deli named in tribute to Rapoport’s father, shuttered in May after six months in the new Park Place shopping center. A replacement with lower prices, Park Place Deli, closed in July. “I’m fired up,” Rapoport says. “I thought long and hard about what to do next [at the location], and people kept telling me they miss Prezzo. Surprisingly, there are very few Italian restaurants west of I-95.”