Some NYC culinary institutions are meant to be single-store-front businesses. We mean, can you imagine Prince Street Pizza opening a second location? Although a Carbone for "members only" is operational inside ZZ’s Club in Hudson Yards, the general public largely thinks of the restaurant’s iconic Thompson Street address as the only authentic Carbone around there.

L&B Spumoni Gardens, the famous Italian-American pizzeria at 2725 86th Street in Brooklyn that first opened back in 1939, squarely belonged in that category of businesses for over 80 years. In New Yorkers' minds, there could only ever be one L&B Spumoni Gardens.