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The Pizzeria of Babylon Village is back.
The Main Street restaurant will reopen at 11 a.m. Tuesday, about a month after a crawl space collapse damaged its pizza ovens and forced an unexpected shutdown.
No injuries were reported.
For co-owner Cliff Weinstein and his team, the days that followed were about two things: taking care of their staff and getting the doors back open.
“The very next day, our leadership team met and agreed on two priorities: make sure we didn’t lose a single employee and reopen as quickly and safely as possible,” Weinstein said. “We made the decision to continue paying every member of our team throughout the closure because taking care of our people had to come first.”
They pulled it off.
Weinstein said every employee stayed on through the closure, and the Babylon shop will return Tuesday with its full menu.
Weinstein launched the concept in 2020 with brothers Dan and Paul Saccoccio at Smith Haven Mall. What started there has since grown into locations across Long Island, including Bay Shore, Lindenhurst, Islip, Bayport, Babylon and Smithtown.
The group also opened its newest location this summer at The Boulevard in Yaphank.
Along the way, The Pizzeria has picked up some national recognition.
In 2025, it landed on DoorDash’s list of the top 50 pizza restaurants in the United States. The first-ever ranking, released during National Pizza Month, was based on thousands of customer ratings and reviews collected from January through September.
Now, after an unexpected month off, the ovens in Babylon Village are ready to fire again.
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