diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 9e2249b..615fdc6 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -63,13 +63,10 @@ Suggests:
     SpatialData.data,
     SpatialData.plot,
     testthat,
-    DT
-Enhances:
-    anndataR,
-    pizzarr
+    DT,
+    anndataR
 Remotes:
-    keller-mark/pizzarr,
-    keller-mark/anndataR@spatialdata,
+    keller-mark/anndataR@keller-mark/zarr,
     HelenaLC/SpatialData.data,
     HelenaLC/SpatialData.plot
 biocViews: 
@@ -82,7 +79,7 @@ biocViews:
     SingleCell,
     Spatial
 License: Artistic-2.0
-RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
+RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
 Encoding: UTF-8
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
 URL: https://github.com/HelenaLC/SpatialData
diff --git a/R/read.R b/R/read.R
index 929fd14..3c951a8 100644
--- a/R/read.R
+++ b/R/read.R
@@ -150,15 +150,10 @@ readShape <- function(x, ...) {
 .readTable_anndataR <- function(x) {
     if (!requireNamespace('anndataR', quietly=TRUE)) {
         stop("To use this function, install the 'anndataR' package via\n",
-            "`BiocManager::install(\"keller-mark/anndataR\", ref=\"spatialdata\")`")
-    }
-    if (!requireNamespace('pizzarr', quietly=TRUE)) {
-        stop("To use this function, install the 'pizzarr' package via\n",
-            "`BiocManager::install(\"keller-mark/pizzarr\")`")
+            "`BiocManager::install(\"keller-mark/anndataR\", ref=\"keller-mark/zarr\")`")
     }
     suppressWarnings({ # suppress warnings related to hidden files
-        adata <- anndataR::read_zarr(x)
-        anndataR::to_SingleCellExperiment(adata)
+        adata <- anndataR::read_zarr(x, as = "SingleCellExperiment")
     })
 }