Is L&B Spumoni Gardens Still Open? Man v. Food Update (Brooklyn, NY)
Man v. Food, Season 2 Brooklyn, New York
Current status
As of October 2026, L&B Spumoni Gardens is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 8, 2026.
What the source shows: A site check of spumonigardens.com shows 2026 copyright and active online ordering, and Wikipedia describes current multi-location operation. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 2, Episode 15
- Aired
- Address 2725 86th St, Brooklyn, NY 11223
- Website spumonigardens.com
- Show map
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What happened after Man v. Food?
Man v. Food visited L&B Spumoni Gardens in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, in an episode that aired on 2009-11-11, featuring the pizzeria's Sicilian square pizza and spumoni ice cream. L&B Spumoni Gardens began as an ice and spumoni stand before World War II and grew into a full-scale pizzeria by the mid-1950s, according to Wikipedia (revised 2026-07-11), which also notes the restaurant has since appeared on Andrew Zimmern's The Zimmern List. A 2026-09-08 check of spumonigardens.com found the site live with a 2026 copyright, an active online-ordering system, and pages for in-house and off-site catering at both the 86th Street and Dumbo locations. The site described the business as operating continuously since 1939. Restaurant critic Robert Sietsema, writing for Eater NY, has called L&B Spumoni Gardens a must-try Italian-American restaurant in Brooklyn, according to Wikipedia.
The episode
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Ep 16the Roadhouse
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Sources we checked
- spumonigardens.com https://spumonigardens.com/
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%26B_Spumoni_Gardens
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Record mvf-106 · checked by Cal Marchetti.