Maybe few things can ever live up to our expectations, as in what we exactly envision a person, place or thing to be. Such is the case with Spumoni Gardens in Bay Ridge. Maybe I expected it to be a green, verdant paradise with elves that serve pizza out of a thatched wooden hut and coca cola that flows from a garden hose.
Maybe instead, Spumoni Gardens is just an outdoor concrete patio with red picnic furniture, fenced in with an iron gate and half covered by a plastic tent.
Maybe instead, the pizza is served by people that just want to go home (after all this place is open until midnight). But that pizza happens to be amazing, a square with melted cheese underneath amazing sauce topped with a whole ton of melted parmesan.
Plus they have homemade spumoni (italian ice cream with fruits/nuts) and alcohol if you are willing to eat in the fancier restaurant half of the gardens.
A nice can of soda rounds out the experience, and is easily recycled in the giant blue plastic tubs provided for your convenience.
Rumor has it that my dad's cousin once owned L & B. Wait ... maybe Spumoni Gardens is starting to blow away my expectations.
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hahah I didn't know there were elves involved.
ReplyDeletebest post ever.