{"id":10249,"date":"2025-06-24T08:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/10249\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T08:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:23:12","slug":"pizza-shop-on-dallas-greenville-avenue-to-sell-final-pies-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/10249\/","title":{"rendered":"Pizza shop on Dallas\u2019 Greenville Avenue to sell final pies this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pizzeria Testa, the family-friendly Italian restaurant on Dallas\u2019 Greenville Avenue<\/a>, will serve its last pies on June 29.<\/p>\n

Restaurant and building owner Rod Schaefer leased the space to Austin Rodgers and Jeff Bekavac, the East Dallas residents who own and operate Goodwin\u2019s<\/a> and Alamo Club<\/a> \u2014 two other restaurants on Greenville Avenue. (Rodgers sold Mayer\u2019s Garden, a bar on Henderson Avenue, in 2023.)<\/p>\n

Frisco resident Schaefer told The Dallas Morning News he wasn\u2019t planning on making a change at Pizzeria Testa, a 7-year-old restaurant that was profitable. The restaurant was created in honor of Schaefer\u2019s grandparents and parents, who taught him to love \u201cfood, friends and family.\u201d <\/p>\n

That vision will live on at the original Pizzeria Testa in Frisco, which launched in 2012. It will remain open.<\/p>\n

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Get the scoop on the latest openings, closings, and where and what to eat and drink.<\/p>\n

Related:Long-awaited Dallas restaurant Goodwins is open on Greenville Avenue<\/a><\/p>\n

So why make the change in Dallas? Rodgers and Bekavac were persuasive, Schaefer said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we did this,\u201d Schaefer said, \u201cit was going to have to be with somebody who loved the community \u2014 and lived in the community as well.”<\/p>\n

Rodgers and Bekavac were \u201cthe right concept with the right people at the right time,\u201d Schaefer said. Rodgers has lived on Greenville Avenue for nearly 14 years and Bekavac is a Lake Highlands resident. Their American restaurant Goodwin\u2019s has been a popular addition to East Dallas since it opened in mid-2024.<\/p>\n

Rodgers and Bekavac had been eyeing Pizzeria Testa \u2014 or the space next door, where Blue Fish has vacated<\/a> \u2014 to open their third Greenville Avenue restaurant. Schaefer owns the building that houses both restaurants.<\/p>\n

\u201cI drive by it every single day,\u201d Rodgers said of the 3500 block of Greenville Avenue, across from the Granada Theater. <\/p>\n

Their coming-soon restaurant will not be similar in menu to Goodwin\u2019s. The two chose not to share more details for now. <\/p>\n

They were drawn to the pizza restaurant because it has room for large parties of 15 people or more, which Goodwin\u2019s lacks.<\/p>\n

Even Schaefer, who is sad to see Testa go, is excited by Rodgers and Bekavac\u2019s vision in East Dallas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are handing off the baton,\u201d Schaefer said. \u201cJeff and Austin\u2019s passion and heart for the concept became infectious to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pizzeria Testa is at 3525 Greenville Ave., Dallas. It closes after service on June 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pizzeria Testa, the family-friendly Italian restaurant on Dallas\u2019 Greenville Avenue, will serve its last pies on June 29.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,11212,2105,11213,11214,4329,9733,988,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-10249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-east-dallas","11":"tag-food-and-drink","12":"tag-italian-food","13":"tag-lower-greenville","14":"tag-real-estate","15":"tag-restaurant-news","16":"tag-restaurants","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114737382399488394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}