Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy is making Christmas a little brighter for one Baltimore pizzeria. TinyBrickOven a local veteran-owned pizza spot in the Federal Hill neighborhood was set to close on December 25 without financial help,

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy gifted $60,000 to save a struggling veteran-owned Baltimore pizzeria from permanently closing as customers have since flooded the store with orders.

Dave Portnoy promised $60,000 to TinyBrickOven in Baltimore, which was facing a Christmas Day closure, to keep its doors open another year.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy surprised the owner of TinyBrickOven with a One Bite Pizza Review. After learning the veteran-owned business was struggling financially, he gifted $60,000 to the owner, Will Fagg.

Dave Portnoy, the President of Barstool Sports, stopped at a Baltimore pizza shop this week for a review and committed to gifting the owner $60,000 to keep the store open for another year.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy brought an early Christmas present to a veteran-owned pizzeria that was looking at closing its doors forever.

There was no sitting room, and barely any standing room, at TinyBrickOven on Thursday, a day after the South Baltimore pizza shop had originally been slated to close. The post-Christmas full house was anticipated after the small Light Street pizza shop got a publicity boost and a $60,

Each box of pie came with a note saying that unless Little Brick Over Pizzeria received a serious amount of business or donations, it would close on December 25th. Enter Barstool Sports’ Dave Portnoy for one of his famous One Bite pizza reviews.