Three months after nine people were injured when La Trattoria’s ceiling partially collapsed during Sunday dinner service this summer, the downtown Naples restaurant near Four Corners on Fifth Avenue South reopened Oct. 25 with prosecco and pizza.

“We closed, we fixed all of the problems and we’re back stronger than before,” said Massimiliano “Massi” Tonni, managing partner of La Trattoria. “A big shout-out to all the people who worked on the job and did an amazing job and replaced everything because two months ago, even one month ago, this place was completely upside-down. So, everybody did an amazing job to bring back everything as it was supposed to be.”

Falling ceiling boards used as decorative beams struck and injured nine people in the restaurant July 28. The restaurant was closed during August, September and most of October — among the slowest months for local restaurants in the seasonal Naples market. During that hiatus, the restaurant made modifications to make everything secure and safe, Tonni said, but the style of the 3,300-square-foot restaurant is the same.

“We improved things to work better to get better service to the customers,” he said. “We took those three months to fix minor little problems and the major one from the drop ceiling since we had that unfortunate event.”

La Trattoria was able to retain its “family” of 40 employees during the unexpected leave.

“Our staff waited for us, so we’re very happy about it,” Tonni said. “That’s the first thing I’m proud of because they stayed and I’m super happy about it.”

Tonni declined to give a dollar figure on how much the tragedy cost the restaurant group.

“Insurance is taking care of everything, even for the people that got injured, of course, so I really don’t know,” Tonni said. “It’s an estimate I really don’t know.”

Expect the same menu of pizzas, pasta, entrees, risotto, salads, soups, appetizers and desserts.

“We improved the cocktails menu and wine list,” he said. “But the food is going to be the same, actually even better. We changed a machine in the kitchen, too. So, we improved all our pizza, homemade pasta, homemade bread and everything that is supposed to be Italian and we try to make as best as possible.”

South Florida restaurateur Stefano Frittella is behind La Trattoria, as well as a collection of other downtown Naples restaurants: The Bevy, Bice, Caffè Milano and Vergina.

In September 2017, Kitchen replaced the Mangrove Cafe, a restaurant that operated there for 25 years. The Kitchen concept of American cuisine ended after a year and the same owners rebranded it to La Trattoria in December 2018, retaining its bright yellow awnings and umbrellas but reverting to a Neapolitan-style pizzeria and birreria with red-checkered tablecloths.

La Trattoria, 878 Fifth Ave. S., is open 4 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Tuesday through Sunday.