Alfredo’s Pizza Villa completed its move across the University Place parking lot and officially opened to customers in its new space on Thursday night.
The Chapel Hill pizza restaurant briefly closed earlier in the week to finish the move to its new home in the 900 Willow building, just yards away from its home of 26 years within the main University Place mall building. Customers trickled in during Thursday’s soft opening, which took only cash and Venmo for payment.
Alfredo’s new location features significantly more indoor seating and a bar space is in the works. The restaurant’s classic patio chairs are still outside, just now on one of the newer sidewalks built in 2024 alongside the 900 Willow apartment building and mall parking deck.
The new Alfredo’s Pizza Villa features a sign easy for road-users to see when entering the mall off of Willow Drive. (Photo by Brighton McConnell/Chapel Hill Media Group.)
The new location still features plenty of outdoor seating, with more indoor seating options too. (Photo by Brighton McConnell/Chapel Hill Media Group.)
The future bar space within Alfredo’s Pizza Villa’s new location. (Photo by Brighton McConnell/Chapel Hill Media Group.)
The restaurant’s move is the latest long-time University Place tenant to make new plans as part of the mall’s redevelopment under Ram Realty, which began in 2020. The anchor mall building is undergoing extensive changes on its opposite sides, where new storefronts were added as part of Phase 1 before the Southern Season space was demolished in 2023 to make way for ten new spaces for businesses. Alfredo’s Pizza Villa is not the only business in the 900 Willow building, which features smaller spaces faces South Estes Drive inhabited by Palette & Parlor and the Soap and Shine — which is temporarily closed after sustaining flood damage in July from Tropical Depression Chantal.
Alfredo’s Pizza Villa hours are 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m to 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sundays.
Featured photo by Brighton McConnell/Chapel Hill Media Group.
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Alfredo's Pizza Villa Opens After Move at Chapel Hill's University PlaceAlfredo's Pizza Villa completed its move across the University Place parking lot and officially opened to customers in its new space on Thursday night.
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