The square pie that built Brooklyn.

Four generations. One legendary square.

It started with Ludovico Barbati, a horse named Babe, and a wagon of fresh-baked Italian creations sold through the streets of Gravesend and Bensonhurst. In 1939 he planted roots at 2725 86th Street, and the Gardens were born.

Nearly nine decades on, the fourth generation of the Barbati family still serves the same upside-down Sicilian square and the homemade spumoni that gave this Brooklyn institution its name.