Barboncino
“My mom and I split a caesar salad, which was DIVINE — not too creamy or heavy, and also split an Arugula pizza with added prosciutto.”
“The owner spent two years learning how to make napolitano style wood burning, brick oven pizza, in naples, italy.”
“On my last visit to New York City we stopped at multiple places searching for the best margherita pizza and this was my favorite.”
Barboncino
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Happy Hour: Yes
Outdoor Seating: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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Took the family out for an early Sunday night dinner at Barboncino and it was perfect. Barboncino is a cool, hip pizza restaurant in Crown Heights. The place is rustic with an industrial feel. I like it! So we sat immediately since it was pretty empty at 430 when we got there. For starters we got the kale Caesar salad and burrata with roaster peppers and both were very good. Our waiter brought us a garlic bread pizza on the house and it was spectacular! Bursting with flavor!!!!
The pizza was very good. Good old Neapolitan style pizza. We ordered the Margherita and the 4 cheese sans pepperoni. The Margherita was very good and the 4 cheese was good, however the blue cheese was very over powering. We enjoyed it all.
The kids all got gelato on the house which was awesome. The vanilla, hazelnut and salted caramel were all delicious. We ordered the Nutella calzone for dessert and wow!!!! This calzone was insane! It was filled with Nutella marscapone bananas and walnuts. Ooooozing with goodness. It was definitely the highlight of the meal for the kids. They love pizza but they love ice cream and Nutella calzones. How could you not? Barboncino is def a must try. My entire family enjoyed it and yours will too.
The pizza was soggy and either overly salty or bland. The anchovy and panchetta were on the salty side and the margherita and clam were more bland. The meatballs were part of the overly salty camp. The burrata was team bland.
The lambrusco was good though. $32 for the bottle and very refreshing.
This is apparently a Local hotspot. Stayed quite busy all night. There's outside seating with umbrella picnic tables and inside seating along with a bar. The left side doesn't have Ac so don't sit there in the summer. The pizza was good or maybe I was just really hungry. Either way I tore it up.
Really good neighborhood spot. I've been here twice and both times, the food and drink were amazing. It can get really crowded on Friday and Saturday nights, but they have a convenient texting system that lets you know when your table's ready so you can leave and grab a drink somewhere.
All of the pizzas are great, the rosemary focaccia is heavenly and cocktails are really tasty and pretty unique. You can tell ingredients like their tomatoes and their prosciutto are high quality and pretty fresh. Overall, a great date spot or a place to come with friends/family for a nice dinner.
Ah, my first night back in NYC in over 10 years. Where does my friend take me? This place. I must admit I never spent much time in Brooklyn when I used to live here, so it was interesting to get a feel for the gentrificationinthehood vibe.
This is a cute little place, and I imagine it's good for date night. We split a couple pizzas, a margarita (red) and a sausage (white) pizza. Both were good, but really scorched (black) underneath. That was a bit of a bummer, but the pizzas were otherwise pretty tasty.
It was late and low-key and the staff seems to mostly leave you alone until you flag them down. I typically like that.. I don't need someone up in my grill all the time asking if everything's okay.
I was told to come here because of the honey. Honey, it was worth it! Honey infused with chili was the prefect dipping sauce for the crust. This is New York pizza, I don't need to explain how it was. The ambiance was awesome and service was good. Very cool spot to have a drink and get down on some pizza.
I had a Sopressata Picante pizza today. The pizza came very fast after I ordered (less than 20 minutes), but that might be because I came at an off hour (mid-afternoon) and they might be busier at other times. It came in four slices, so it's a personal-sized pizza for anyone with a reasonably large appetite. They could have done a better job cutting the pizza; it wouldn't pull apart on its own so I had to further cut it myself.
The crust is a bit softer and chewier than most other places. I would say it almost has a naan-like consistency. This means that it's not as crispy unfortunately, but the benefit is an much improved taste overall, down to the edge of the crust, unlike many slice pizzerias which have a paper-thin, almost nonexistent crust.
For the toppings they go for quality over quantity. Cheese is used sparingly but it is very fresh and chewy. The tomato sauce is very hearty, and the sopressata is full of flavor. I didn't find it spicy enough so I drizzled over some chili oil, provided at every table.
Bottom line: Good, but not fantastic. This place is long on hipster style — all dark, farmhouse-style wood tables, high ceilings, and dim lighting — but somewhat short on great pizza, which should be its specialty. Don't get me wrong; it's perfectly serviceable, but not as amazing as billed.
This is a meat-heavy menu, with perhaps 3-4 veggie-only options for pizza and several salads. We went with the giant bean salad with pesto and the kale Caesar for appetizers; the former was just OK, but the latter was a nice preparation of raw kale, plus the Parm-Reggiano was fresh and had excellent bite. For dinner, we first ordered a pizza that didn't specify that it had meat on it (there are a couple of these on the menu, so vegetarians beware), and switched it out for an arugula and tomato, and an eggplant and zucchini. The toppings on both were tasty, though I had to shake some red pepper flakes on both to give them a bit more flavor. The crust, however, is the big fail for me. This is paper-thin wood-fired pizza, and it's really not crispy at all. And if the crust doesn't have some crunch and the pizza flops over and all the toppings slide off as soon as the tip is lifted off the plate, it just ain't the real deal in my book.
The best surprise of the meal was the Coney Island-made hard root beer, which I've never had before. The sweetness of a typical soda is balanced by the alcohol, which makes it a fun alternative to a cocktail. That would be worth going back for, but I'd probably skip the pizza.