L&B Spumoni Gardens

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L&B Spumoni Gardens
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Two slices of Sicilian pizza at L&B Spumoni Gardens
L&B Spumoni Gardens
Restaurant information
Established1939
Food type Italian-American
Dress codecasual
Street address2725 86th Street
CityBrooklyn
CountyKings
StateNew York
Postal/ZIP Code11222
CountryUSA
ReservationsYes
Website spumonigardens.com

L&B Spumoni Gardens is an Italian-American pizzeria-restaurant in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. [1] [2] [3] [4] Originally conceived as an ice and spumoni stand prior to World War II, it grew during the mid-1950s into a full-scale pizzeria that's known today primarily for its Sicilian pizza and ices. [5] The restaurant has been featured on the show Man v. Food. NY Eater critic Robert Sietsema considers L&B Spumoni Gardens a must-try Italian American restaurant in Brooklyn. [6] They were featured on Andrew Zimmern’s show The Zimmern List. [7]

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History

Founder Ludovico Barbati came to the United States in 1917 from Torella dei Lombardi, Italy. [8] In 1938, Barbati sold Spumoni and Italian Ice from a horse and wagon. [8] In 1939, he purchased a vacant property on 86th Street to make the spumoni and ice. [8] By the mid 1950s, the location came to be L&B Spumoni Gardens, with the spumoni factory, a pizzeria and a luncheonette all on site. [8]

In 2016, one of the co-owners, Louis Barbati, 61, was murdered outside his home in Dyker Heights. [9] In 2019, another co-owner, Patricia Barbati Coffey, 56, died after a seven-year battle with ALS. [10]

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