Carroll Gardens

Bar Bruno is located at 520 Henry Street, at the corner of Union Street, and is currently open from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. daily  It was not their original plan to take over, shut down, and completely revamp the 15-year-old Carroll Gardens Mexican spot, Bar Bruno. But Orion Russell and Peter Juusola, the duo…

Raise a slice of almond cake or an onion roll; another Carroll Gardens institution has turned off the oven. That’s according to a handwritten note from James Caputo, the fifth-generation owner of Caputo Bake Shop, which closed this week after 124 years of baking soda and lard breads, assorted Italian and Jewish delicacies, a slate…

Bar Ferdinando is located at 151 Union Street, between Columbia and Hicks Streets, and is currently open on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., and on Friday and Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. For more than 120 years, Ferdinando’s Focacceria had been holding it down near the western…

Ramblin’ Chick is located at 512 Court Street, between Nelson and Huntington Streets, and is currently open on Tuesday through Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. The first and most obvious reaction to the news that Jackie Cuscuna and Brian Smith, the couple that founded, very publicly grew, and then very publicly bankrupted and…

Last month, Francesco “Frank” Buffa sent waves across his neighborhood when he shuttered the gates on Ferdinando’s Focacceria, his 121-year-old Sicilian restaurant in Carroll Gardens. Many feared the worst, and rightfully so. Buffa’s health had been a concern for years, and no successor had been named to take his place as chief of the operation….