There will likely be sauce.
A Brooklyn pizzeria that’s been famously serving up sq. slices and spumoni for 85 years opened a long-awaited outpost in DUMBO this week on the identical block as two iconic slice retailers — however claimed it was not firing the primary shot in a pizza conflict.
Legendary Gravesend eatery L&B Spumoni Gardens opened a second location at 46 Previous Fulton St., immediately throughout the road from Grimaldi’s Pizzeria and Juliana’s, the place pizza lovers routinely stand in line for hours to devour coal-fired, brick-oven pies.
And across the nook on Water Road is one other favourite, Ignazio’s, which makes pies with a gas-fired brick oven.
L&B’s reception “has been wonderful,” mentioned basic supervisor Charlie Cavallo, who insisted the competitors is pleasant — with loads of dough to be made by everybody.
“I believe it’s an important mixture of eating places the place every has their very own factor – their very own area of interest,” he mentioned. “They’re brick oven. We’re fuel oven, and we’re recognized for our ‘the wrong way up’ sq. pies and our world-famous spumoni.”
“I’m so enthusiastic about this turning into the pizza mecca of New York as a result of you have got some heavy hitters right here,” added Cavallo.
Matt Grogan, co-founder of Juliana’s, agreed, saying “the underside line is” L&B’s arrival “will likely be nice for the neighborhood as a result of it’s going to carry much more individuals right down to Previous Fulton Road” to soak up the “entire pizza expertise.”
“That is in all probability probably the most concentrated road within the 5 boroughs for high-quality pizza,” mentioned Grogan.
Charlotte Testerman, basic supervisor of Grimaldi’s flagship DUMBO pizzeria, additionally prolonged a heat welcome to L & B.
“We look ahead to pleasant competitors and loads of pizza for guests and locals alike to get pleasure from for a few years to return,” she mentioned.
Though there’s presently pizza peace on Previous Fulton Road, it wasn’t at all times that approach — Juliana’s and Grimaldi’s had been locked in a feud for years.
Coal-oven legend Patsy Grimaldi bought his eponymous eatery Grimaldi’s — and it’s naming rights — in 1998 to Frank Ciolli.
However after Ciollli moved the enterprise subsequent door following a dispute along with his landlord over hire, Grimaldi got here out of retirement in 2012.The pizzaiolo and his late spouse Carol partnered with Grogan to open Juliana’s, named after Grimaldi’s mom, on the unique location.
A lot of the dangerous blood ended after Ciolli’s son Joe took over Grimaldi’s operations 5 years in the past.
L&B’s menu of sq. and spherical pies, meat dishes, salad dishes, pastas, spumoni and different desserts are ready precisely how they’re made on the Gravesend location on 86th Road, mentioned Cavallo.
Prospects insist they will’t inform the distinction.
“It’s precisely the identical,” mentioned Matt Martin, 31, whereas shopping for two sq. pies and spumoni to take again to his household on Staten Island. “It brings again all these previous reminiscences as a result of I grew up on the pizza from the unique place.”
The eating space’s façade is a mixture of brick partitions and custom-made wallpaper that includes pictures exhibiting how L & B’s founder Ludovico Barbati began the enterprise by promoting garage-made pizza, spumoni and ices alongside southern Brooklyn roads on a horse-drawn wagon earlier than making sufficient cash to open the Gravesend location in 1939.
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