Ferdinando's Focacceria

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…

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….