By the time he was 11 chef Renato Viola was apprenticing with a prominent Naples pizza chef. A native of Agropoli in Campania, Viola continued his studies throughout Italy and joined the award-winning Italian Pizza Acrobatics team. He landed in Miami Beach under an O-1 Visa category, reserved for those with “extraordinary artistic ability,” and opened his first location on Miami Beach, followed by other locations at Brickell, Wynwood and Naples, Florida.
