Cincinnati to get second serving of once-beloved ZZ's Pizza - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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Former partner Thomas who had operated the Gilbergt Avenue pizzeria and bar with the late Williamn Enz until it closedin 2005, said he has leasedd the business and the building to Ben a former manager at in Chassagne is waiting for a liquot license but had hoped to open as early as May, Rehme said. But 79, who bartended at ZZ's for each of its 18 is not an investor or an operator this An attorneywith , he doesn't want to ente a second round of two "I'm just leasing it to him. I told him I woulcd appear on Friday and Saturday nights and hand out he said. ZZ's closed after Enz underwent majod surgery, and it lost its liquor licensd about a year for lackof operation.
Enz died last and Rehme filed for residential rental property registratio n on the building in the Now with new condominium and office developments along the such as that near theBaldwin Building, Rehmwe thinks ZZ's is poised for a secondc life. Chassagne could not be reachedfor comment, but Rehmd said he has leased the entire including its two upstairs apartments. The 125-year-old flatironh building where ZZ's is housed has alway been a bar or restaurant ofsome kind, Rehme During Prohibition it operated as a soda shop, then a bar called Stacey's. By the time Enz and Rehme took it hadbeen "open to the wind for 20 Rehme said.
"The first floor was falling into the Albert Pyle, executive director at the Mercantiler Library, remembers when ZZ's firstt opened, and he ate there from time to "It was the Dewey's of its he said, referring to the contemporart chain of local pizz restaurants. When ZZ's does eventually reopen, it will featurs the same menu and bar as it had in itsoriginall day, Rehme said. The only main difference is that Rehme won't be found behind the bar. Not anyway. "I might volunteer," he "if it's simple beer and wine.
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