Berklee-adjacent pizza place that got shut for a pot shop that never opened could return

The Boston Licensing Board next week considers an application by a local restaurant operator to re-open Little Steve's Pizzeria at 1114 Boylston St. - and with just the sort of late-night hours that used to bring in customers before it was shut to make way for a pot shop that then never opened.

Koushik Babu Koganti's food serving license requests a 3 a.m. closing time at his incarnation of the restaurant formerly owned by Gabi Essber. Koganti owns the Boston Halal chain.

The licensing board will consider Koganti's request as part of Wednesday hearings, which begin at 10 a.m.

In 2021, the Zoning Board of Appeal approved a three-story marijuana dispensary in the space, which had been Little Steve's since the late 1960s.