"L&B Spumoni Gardens is an unfancy, celebratory mess in the middle of Gravesend, a way-out-there part of Brooklyn near Coney Island that has resisted the Edison Bulb-ification of its northern neighbors. There are multiple indoor and outdoor seating areas, an ersatz formal dining room, and various windows where you can order whole pies, Italian ices and the namesake spumoni (an icy, tricolor Sicilian gelato that combines cream, chocolate, and pistachio). It's best experienced in summer, when you can post up at a picnic table outside and take in the whole scene." - Andrea Whittle, Jessica Kelly
Courtesy L&B Spumoni Gardens