Neapolitan Pizza Shop Closed, Future Unknown

Mangia Neapolitan Pizza in Wenham has been closed for about a month and the future of the town’s only pizza shop is unknown.

The shop, at 158 Main St. in Wenham's village, was open for about 10 months.

On Oct. 16, the restaurant posted to its Facebook page: “sorry that there is no pizza at Mangia Pizza Wenham; We're renovating so that we'll be able to supply better and fresher pizza to the Mangia Pizza-loving people of Wenham and Hamilton.”

A call to the restaurant’s phone number is met with the message “the number you have dialed…has been temporarily disconnected.”

This week, Mangia Restaurant Group CEO Steve Fenerjian, Michael Robinson, head of marketing for Mangia and local Mangia licensee Derek Langone all could not be reached for comment.

The restaurant announced its plans to open a Wenham location in September and opened in January. Mangia is a small chain of Boston-area pizza restaurants with locations mostly south of Boston in towns such as Canton, Cohasset and Sharon, plus Boston’s South End.

Mangia was not shut down by town officials, according to Planning Coordinator Emilie Cademartori. Town officials have not issued any building permits to Mangia since it closed in October.

“We don’t know what happened,” she said, noting Town Hall employees went there once for lunch recently and found it was not open.