L & B Gardens Inc

(718) 449-1230

2725 86th St (nr. 10th St.)
Brooklyn, NY 11223 40.5945 -73.9812

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Neighborhood: Gravesend

SPUMONIGARDENS.COM

Hours:

Daily: 12:00pm-11:00pm

Price:

$$

Last updated 7.20.11

Category:

Restaurants

Payment Methods:

American Express, Visa, MasterCard

Restaurant Special Features:

Local Favorite, Family-Friendly Dining, Lunch Spot, Group Dining, Outdoor Dining

Cuisine:

Pizza, Italian

What People Are Saying About L & B Gardens Inc

Featured Review

Erin Behan

Contributor

In Short – Famous for its deep-dish Sicilian pies, L&B is three restaurants in one: Outdoor pizza counter, spumoni stand, and indoor restaurant. Picnic tables, crawling with neighborhood families, ring the exterior of the slightly more formal sit-down restaurant serving hero sandwiches, pastas, seafood dishes and traditional Italian entrees. As for the main attraction, the pies are known for their crisp outer edge and gooey middle, and feature the unorthodox layering of sauce over mozzarella.

Editor's Tips

When to Go:
The dining room closes between 11pm and 11:30pm nightly, but the pizza counter stays open late.
The Extras:
If you're visiting Bay Ridge, why not make a day of it and head to Coney Island.
ambiance
93.33000183105469% positive
  1. would have to say that most people whom speak great about this place have had to been raised on this pizza, or have shared alot of special family moments at this place, also maybe people feel comfortable and get a good vibe when at L and B. However It i
  2. Great pizza, good food, great atmosphere.
  3. Its convenient location for us.
  4. Be prepared to wait as it gets packed but feel free to enjoy the view of the cute cops and firemen that show up constantly!
  5. This place is simply awesome & the portions are huge, Service was above average(Mostly Foreign Waiters & Bussers with poor english) & there was not much for decor.
dessert
83.33000183105469% positive
  1. Great Desserts, great ice cream, just GREAT!
  2. It also has great ice cream and spumoni ices.
  3. The square slkices are the best and for dessert i recommend some spumoni or soft ice cream on a cone!
  4. know that their Sicilian pie is not very crispy, but this was like mush.
  5. WHile their round Napolitan pizza is good, it is nothing compare to their square Sicilian pie.
  6. The ices and the spumoni were perfect desserts to the pizza.
  7. Go there and sit outside on a warm summer day and enjoy your slice and right after top it off with one of their great icecream deserts.
  8. They are using substandard ingredients in all their food and the ice cream is full of artificial chemicals and artificial colorings, The spumoni is the worst Ive ever had
  9. The pistachio and chocolate flavors are just amazing - the flavor combinations are perfect.
  10. Some people don't go for Sicilian, and that's fine, but if you order the round pie, don't be surprised when it's mediocre.
  11. have to say it is the best Sicilian pie I have eaten in the world!
  12. can name about 5 places for a great slice of pie in brooklyn, and i can also name 50 places that are better than L&B.
drinks
100.0% positive
  1. And of course the Spumoni is the BEST IN THE WORLD bar none!
  2. And their house wines are excellent.
  3. Service is pretty quick and the beer is awesome.
food quality
95.24999618530273% positive
  1. There are several really good Italian pizza places close by.
  2. With other pizza I eat one slice, but with this amazing pizza, I eat 3 and have to force myself to stop (and I am 110 lbs!)
  3. Anyone who disagrees clearly does not know what good pizza is.
  4. If you love NY pizza, then it's absolutely necessary for you to go to Spumoni Gardens.
  5. During the summer the outdoor area is a great place to sit and eat you pizza.
  6. Great service and tremendous portions of excellently prepared food make L&B's Spumoni Gardens tops.
  7. Always a line because the pizza's that good.
  8. love the fresh dough, it makes the pizza right and perfect.
  9. Cruncy crust, fresh cheese, homemade all the way.
  10. Pasta dishes are great, pizza is nothing spectacular.
  11. The Italian food is great and plentiful too.
  12. no other silician slice compares, nothing else even deserves to be called silician in contrast - delicious sauce, light and airy bread, perfect crust.
  13. After that I went to Spumoni Gardens every time I was in the neighborhood, whether I was hungry or not because I am always in the mood for the best pizza in all of NYC!
  14. Order from Spumoni Gardens this past Friday night because my niece was up from Florida and she loves their pizza.
  15. the ladyfingers at the end of the tiramisu was so fresh and so good that I almost fell of my chair.
  16. The perfect Bensonhurst pizza.
  17. Make a trip and try it, if you know Great pizza i am sure you will agree.
  18. For 39 years the quality of the pizza pies, both Neapolitan and Sicilian styles, has been the very best in the City of New York!
  19. everything is delicious, it doesn't matter what you order!
  20. You eat the pizza outside on a warm summer evening.
  21. If the best pizza is in Brooklyn and this definitely the best pizza in Brooklyn, then this is the best pizza in the whole world!
  22. It has the best sicilian pizza in new york city, and therefore in the world.
  23. can only speak about the Sicilian(square) pizza here, that is my favorite.
  24. They are using substandard ingredients in all their food and the ice cream is full of artificial chemicals and artificial colorings, The spumoni is the worst Ive ever had
  25. If you like Brick Oven go to Grimaldi's but you want pizza go hear and have a spumoni that is the best period!
  26. The food is good, but not good enough to endure the machismo of the wait staff.
  27. I'm originally from Brooklyn, and can honestly say that I've had my share of delicious pizza.
  28. When friends from abroad come for the real authentic italian american pizza, I take them here.
  29. Year after year they have had the best "square" (sicilian) pizza and the fastest service of all the places I've been.
  30. The ices and the spumoni were perfect desserts to the pizza.
  31. would have to say that most people whom speak great about this place have had to been raised on this pizza, or have shared alot of special family moments at this place, also maybe people feel comfortable and get a good vibe when at L and B. However It i
  32. enjoy L & B's pizza.
  33. The food was pretty good but the wait staff are so pushy!
  34. The pizza is the best.
  35. drive 20 minutes to my old neighborhood for good pizza.
  36. The sauce was tasty, (on the sweet side), the mozzarella was there in the right amount, (not too minimal, not enough to choke a horse), and a nice dusting of parmigiano atop the sauce.
  37. The place was crowded but we didn't wait long and had a great meal.
  38. The pizza isnt good anymore either and the place is now very DIRTY
  39. You would definitely agree that is the best pizza around!
  40. My favorite is the Seafood salad!
  41. Since L&B is a landmark, of sorts, it is always jammed packed with people who don't what good pizza is.
  42. Great fresh pies and excellent used ingredients.
  43. These places i mentioned are some Heavy hitters when it comes to truely great pizza
  44. can't believe L&B is rates one of the best places in NY to find good pizza.
  45. Very well known, went there as a kid since I only lived a couple of blocks away, for some reason the pizza doesn't taste quite as good as it used to, though everything there is still good
  46. Now thats good Brooklyn pizza!
  47. like the seating and the service is excellent and their pizza is suberb so is their spumoni.
  48. The pizza was good, so were the breadsticks.
  49. The regular pizza has a nice thin crispy crust.
  50. The sauce on the pizza is amazing, like nothing else and they are generous with it!
  51. Seriously, if you like thin pizza with a krispy crust.
  52. Best pizza in Brooklyn I sware to God.
  53. do not know what the americans like to eat but it is not certainly pizza to me.
  54. & B Spumoni Gardens has without a doubt the world's best Sicilian pizza.
  55. This is by far the best pizza that you have ever eaten.
  56. grew up in Queens all my life and this has to be the best pizza I've ever had.
  57. The quality of the pizza crust, cheeses & sauce here is delicious and very unique.
  58. Spumoni Gardens pizza is one of the best pizza I have had in Brooklyn.
  59. We were a huge group and ordered tons of food!
  60. The round pizza doesn't taste as good as I recall, it's still wonderful, but the Sicilian is to die for.
  61. My ultimate favorite is chicken parmigiana with spaghetti.
  62. This old favorite dishes out terrific trays of pizza for young and old and of course, amazing spumoni.
  63. The best pizza in Brooklyn and people.
  64. Until then I thought I'd had the best pizza NYC had to offer - John's, Arturo's, Lombardi's, et al.
  65. This is the best pizza on the planet period.
  66. fresh fast freindly food
  67. Average crust, not great, Decent sauce, also not great.
  68. The round pizza is just OK but the square is excellent.
  69. WHile their round Napolitan pizza is good, it is nothing compare to their square Sicilian pie.
  70. rave about this place to everyone when they talk about "good pizza" (theres no such thing in jersey).
  71. The pizza is thet always fresh and just made they hav an outdoor seating area that is partially covered they also have a full service restaurant on the premises they make everything on premises
  72. People Know good food and keep coming back for more.
  73. Great pizza, good food, great atmosphere.
  74. The sauce on the pizza was the best; it was thick and it QUENCHED your craving.
  75. The food in the restaurant is usually quite good.
  76. am new to the city, and thought this was a place which sho-cased great italian food.
  77. Love the sicilian pizza.
  78. The Italian dishes they prepare are magnificent!
  79. Crisp crust, delicious sauce, the right amount of cheese.
  80. Nice saucy and fresh square slice.
  81. Next they brought out a wide homemade paste (About 1" Wide) with fresh greens on tap & Vodka sauce - it was deliciuos.
  82. Good pizza, awesome spumoni, and great dinner prices in the restaurant area.
  83. Year after year, the best pizza and the fastest service!
  84. The spumoni is tasty.
  85. The place is not fancy, but their food is wonderful.
  86. People would say no this is the best pizza in New York, i tried it.
  87. The other food they serve is also very good, but the pizza keeps calling me back!
  88. This pizza is without a doubt the best pizza i have ever had.
  89. L&B Is Not very good pizza Place,
  90. Mediocre pizza, excellent spumoni
  91. My Family had the Chef Table Lite here for $25/ person and We received a huge salad with cheese - Very fresh & well decorated in a large rectangular plate.
  92. my opinion would be this is the best pizza in new york
  93. great cheese/sauce/bread ratio and surprisingly good service for an ordering window.
  94. The Brooklyn hotties who go there are just as hot as when I was a kid and the pizza is just as good.
  95. They have the best sauce on the Sicilian pizza in the WORLD.
  96. They make sicillians only, and put the cheese under the sauce which is unique and allows the cheese to stay in place.
  97. Me and my wife we go there at least once a month, the food they give you is amazing we only get one order of pasta and main course it is enough for both to share,we get full and satisfied, our favorite dish penne with pesto.
  98. The food at the restaurant is great too.
  99. The pizza can't be beaten and the spumoni is the best I've ever had.
  100. The resturant has the best penne alla vodka sauce i have ever had.
  101. best pizza in brooklyn
  102. The pizza was not bad.
  103. Their pizza is unique and tasty.
  104. If your in the mood for fresh italian dishes you can't go wrong.
  105. Good food.
  106. The perfect crust with lots of hot oozing mozzarella on a seasoned-just-right pizza.
  107. The dough and sauce are tasty.
  108. asked two Italian cops on the Staten Island Ferry where to get the best pizza in Manhattan.
  109. lived a few blocks from L & B. I moved to Texas four years ago and since then have not been able to eat or taste a slice as great as L&B's pizza.
  110. love L&B pizza, you just have to try it for yourself.
  111. and B has good italian dishes & spumoni not great pizza
  112. Spumoni Gardens has the BEST pizza in Brooklyn!
  113. It's tomatoey with a fresh, thin slice of mozzarella and a dusting of parmesan.
  114. The red sauce had no flavor, the cheese lacked that fresh quality cheese taste you expect from a well-known pizzaria, and the slice overall was really dry.
  115. L&B - great food and portions
  116. Everything about the pizza is awesome.
  117. You can go to all these gormet places and eat expensive pizza this is the best cheese, sauce, bread its a done deal.
  118. This is great pizza.
  119. The best pizza, sicilian or regular.
  120. The best spumoni and Sicilian pizza this side of the Atlantic.
  121. The steak is not great, but people like goin there right?
menu variety
100.0% positive
  1. The restaurant is actually pretty good, with a simple Italian menu and a home-cooked type vibe to it.
overall
100.0% positive
  1. What a great place to hang out with friends.
  2. and the pistachio spumoni is incredibly good, as far as i'm concerned this is the only place worth even trying spumoni.
  3. The pizza isnt good anymore either and the place is now very DIRTY
  4. & B is by far the best place that I have gone to.
  5. The best place to eat for all four seasons
  6. Good pizza, awesome spumoni, and great dinner prices in the restaurant area.
  7. During the summer the outdoor area is a great place to sit and eat you pizza.
  8. would have to say that most people whom speak great about this place have had to been raised on this pizza, or have shared alot of special family moments at this place, also maybe people feel comfortable and get a good vibe when at L and B. However It i
service
68.42000007629395% positive
  1. Year after year, the best pizza and the fastest service!
  2. The pizza is thet always fresh and just made they hav an outdoor seating area that is partially covered they also have a full service restaurant on the premises they make everything on premises
  3. To add insult to injury, the service was not nasty, just very cold.
  4. Seriously, even though they have fast service for the majority, I think they can improve their service a little bit more by delivering to everyone, no matter where they live.
  5. Great service and tremendous portions of excellently prepared food make L&B's Spumoni Gardens tops.
  6. The food was pretty good but the wait staff are so pushy!
  7. Since L&B is a landmark, of sorts, it is always jammed packed with people who don't what good pizza is.
  8. The food is good, but not good enough to endure the machismo of the wait staff.
  9. like the seating and the service is excellent and their pizza is suberb so is their spumoni.
  10. great cheese/sauce/bread ratio and surprisingly good service for an ordering window.
  11. Therefore, the service is horrible.
  12. The steak is not great, but people like goin there right?
  13. The best pizza in Brooklyn and people.
  14. lousy service.
  15. would have to say that most people whom speak great about this place have had to been raised on this pizza, or have shared alot of special family moments at this place, also maybe people feel comfortable and get a good vibe when at L and B. However It i
  16. Year after year they have had the best "square" (sicilian) pizza and the fastest service of all the places I've been.
  17. They are oftentimes pushy and rude whenever I go in there.
  18. The service is fast and friendly.
  19. Some people don't go for Sicilian, and that's fine, but if you order the round pie, don't be surprised when it's mediocre.
value
95.50999641418457% positive
  1. and the pistachio spumoni is incredibly good, as far as i'm concerned this is the only place worth even trying spumoni.
  2. Portions are huge and enough to eat for two more days!
  3. This place is simply awesome & the portions are huge, Service was above average(Mostly Foreign Waiters & Bussers with poor english) & there was not much for decor.
  4. We also noticed a huge insect in one of our entrees.
  5. My Family had the Chef Table Lite here for $25/ person and We received a huge salad with cheese - Very fresh & well decorated in a large rectangular plate.
  6. We were a huge group and ordered tons of food!
  7. The portions are huge!
  8. Great service and tremendous portions of excellently prepared food make L&B's Spumoni Gardens tops.
  9. The sauce on the pizza is amazing, like nothing else and they are generous with it!
  10. good enough Sicilian slice, but not one worth traveling for.
  11. L&B - great food and portions
  12. Good pizza, awesome spumoni, and great dinner prices in the restaurant area.
  13. You can go to all these gormet places and eat expensive pizza this is the best cheese, sauce, bread its a done deal.
wait time
100.0% positive
  1. drive 20 minutes to my old neighborhood for good pizza.
  2. Service is pretty quick and the beer is awesome.
  3. The place was crowded but we didn't wait long and had a great meal.
  4. Everything about this restaurant is pleasing (with the exception of the long wait for the restaurant).
4 Star Rating: Recommended

01/11/12

in the words of an old italian leather master belisimo!

by stephanieblasburg

amazing thick tender pizza dough, delleicous tangy vibrant sauce and the ice cream and spumoni were italianzo authenticato! grasso!

3 Star Rating: Average

01/02/12

best spumoni pizzas good too little overrated

by jacksonjermaine61

the pizzas great, dont get me wrong; but from the rave reviews ive heard, youd think the virgin madonne herself was sprinlking on the muttzerall! best spumoni ive ever hear- and ive had spumoni in napoli...

2 Star Rating: Below Average

11/23/11

Not the way to be treated.............

by katie dimes

I went there with my wife for a special occasion dinner. We LOVE the pizza and the restaurant is usually good. The nbasic food we ordered was OK baked zite, chicken cutlet parm and fried calamri.

the service was terrible. I pay attention alot. Unless you were one of there favorite regular customers they didit care about us at all. We were squeezed into a small table space. Waited over 5 minutes for SOMEONE to at least notice us. A bus buy brought bread. Anotehjr 5 minutes oir so a waiter came and took the order. Never brought my wife her beverage. Had to finad and ask a bus boy again. finaklly a waiter took our order and that was the last we saw him. waited a long time for the above mentions baasics and the pasta with my chicken parm was so overcooked and it looked like ketchup on top of the pasta.

The buis boy bagged our leftovers. waited about 15 miutes of what would have been dessert but got pissed waiting so long we could get ice cream on our way home.

It seem to be a place where their good ole boy regulars get all the attention and they dont give a dam about the "others" the bus boys english wasnt all that good but they did everything right fo me so i was happy. I should have tipped the bus boys instead.

The should stick to their pizza. Although those guys are a little cranky but its only pizza and dont have to deal with them for too long.

Dont know what happened but its not the place it used to be like the story of feeling like family on the back of their menu.

Wont be visiting any time soon for sure !

5 Star Rating: Highly Recommended

11/18/11

Best Pizza

by Alex Tattoo at Enigma

Heard they were the Best, And They Are !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 Star Rating: Below Average

10/04/11

l n b is a good reastrunt but horrible

by vinny mac3

i use to work there as a bus boy i just wanna say the owner Lenny should where clown outfits because he plays to much lets the workers drink in the basement and fools around to much i use to ask for more days and he says no

mean while he has mexcans bus boys goes down staters while its busy and sleeps and drink there beer the pizza is good and the ices so i just wanna let every one know wat they do in that place and Lenny says to me this is the army i work at ft Hamilton and they don't drink on the job or play jokes and the cooks play wit eachother thats not right so im just telling all the people that read my revew see wat i weant threw working at L &B

The Details on L & B Gardens Inc

Place Categories:

  • best round pizza
  • best pizza place
  • best pistachio spumoni
  • fast service
  • good other food
  • best penne alla vodka sauce
  • best square
  • best sicilian slice
  • huge tremendous portions
  • best enough sicilian
  • best sicilian pizza
  • delicious everything
  • great ice cream
  • love fresh dough
  • good italian dishes
  • pretty good family restaurant
  • very nice wonderful waitor
  • fresh quality cheese
  • very best quality
  • perfect crispy crust
  • great italian food
  • enjoy l
  • loved lb
  • yum great big slice
  • best sicilian pie
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