Battista’s Hole in the Wall is the restaurant’s name, which works. But holes in the ceiling are bad for business.
For that reason, and a few others, the famous Italian restaurant just east of the Strip on Flamingo Road has shut down for the month. The restaurant is taking reservations on Open Table beginning June 23.
Owner Randy Barkin has been on precipitation patrol since he took over two years ago.
“The building was built in the ’60s, we’d have leaks when it rained,” says Barkin, who also owns Stage Door Casino next door and the rest of the strip mall. “We just decided to just re-roof the whole place and put all new air conditioning units in there and update the equipment.”
