A new pizza place is open in Palmetto.
Gianni’s Pizza Express opened last week at 4927 96th Street E. next to Corporate Ladder Brewing in a shopping center also home to American Honey Creamery and Coffee Co .
Gianni’s replaced TK Grill and Barbecue, which closed in June according to a Facebook post, in the plaza just south of Moccasin Wallow Road and west of Interstate 75.
It’s the third store under the Gianni’s name for Manatee and Sarasota counties. The original, Gianni’s Pizza and & More , is located at 4925 E. State Road 64, and Gianni’s American Trattoria is off University Parkway at 6392 Lockwood Ridge Road in Sarasota.
The Palmetto location is already seeing high volume.
“We actually opened briefly Thursday night for a few hours and then we were open Friday and had to close down early because we ran out of food,” owner Todd Surdez said. “We opened up Saturday, we restocked Saturday morning, opened up a little later on Saturday once we restocked and nearly sold ourselves out again. So we’ve been very well received.”