The redeemer pizza owners opening the little Johnny B’s in Roberta’s on Cap Hill

Who is Johnny Bechamel?

The trio behind the dio Mio squid pasta and the smoking slices of pizza of pizza can answer this question when they open two new restaurants that bear its name.

The first, Little Johnny B’s, will take over for Roberta’s, a Brooklyn -based pizzeria which opened its doors last fall inside the new 16 -bedroom urban cowboy shop, at 1665, rue Grant in Capitol Hill. It will serve wooden fire pies, as well as salads and snacks of Italian inspiration, at the House Public House on the property from April 21. (It will also provide room service.)

Urban Cowboy did not explain why Roberta – Long praised as an integral part of the hotel – Closed. A statement indicates that this decision would give Urban Cowboy a chance to work with local restaurateurs, that Roberta would focus on new and existing places on a national level, and that the partnership between the two would continue in other cities.

But that worked well for Spencer White, Alex Figura and Lulu Clair, the founding partners behind Dio Mio and Redeemer, who are both located on Upper Larimer Street in the River North Art District.

“It was too good for an opportunity to pass,” said clear.

This is partly because their company, Mamas & Papas Hospitéy Group, also plans to open a much more important concept, Johnny Bechamel’s, this summer at 81 S. Pennsylvania St. Cuisine There will be pasta like those that have collected Dio Mio recommendations from the Michelin Guide in recent years, as well as Dio Mio Mio pizzas.

Compared to their establishments in Rino, new restaurants “are more an overview of who we are as people,” said clear.

The pizza of Little Johnny B’s will be different from that of the Redeemer or Johnny Bechamel because of the hotel’s wood oven, said clear.

As for Johnny Bechamel, Clair was happy to participate in a construction of the myth on the fictitious character. When asked who he was, she said that her grandparents had a pizza in New Jersey and that her previous passage was to Olive Garden.

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Originally published: April 10, 2025 at 4:24 p.m.