Bar Birba Opens In Bed-Stuy With Pizza, Wine: Report

BED-STUY, NY — Bed-Stuy's newest pizza is served out of a "cool, cute, cozy neighborhood" joint with a long wine menu to complement, according to Brooklyn Magazine.

Bar Birba — opened on Dec. 15 by the team behind Mexican cafe For All Things Good — sits on Franklin Avenue between Lexington and Greene avenues.

The wine bar is a dream for Matt Diaz, the bar's co-owner told Brooklyn Magazine. Diaz co-owns the pizza and wine bar with Bob Edinger and Guadalupe Candia.

“The space was just so pretty,” he said. “Perfect for the kind of cool, cute, cozy neighborhood wine bar I had in my mind. And it came with a giant, floor-to-ceiling pizza oven so I was like, welp, time to learn how to make pizza!”

The new spot keeps the pizza legacy alive at 340 Franklin, where Nice Pizza sat for years.

The Italian menu boasts snacks like arancini and polpette followed by pizzas — served on green checker serving paper — like margherita, ricotta and rosemary pizza and a rotating special.

The flavors are concocted by chef Aminu Tedla, a veteran of Speedy Romeo, Lucali's, Baby Luc's and Pasquale Jones, Brooklyn Magazine reported.

And to drink, wine options extend over two menu pages long, alongside beer and liquor.

And Bed-Stuy is the perfect backdrop for the trendy new spot, Diaz told Brooklyn Magazine.

“We love this community,” Diaz said. “I went to high school in Fort Greene, and I’ve lived in Bed-Stuy for longer than I’d like to admit. It feels nice to see familiar faces every day. Everyone in the neighborhood is so sweet. I feel very content.”

New restaurants have cropped up nonstop in Bed-Stuy, like vegetarian restaurant 'Che,' which opened on Malcolm X Boulevard in December.

The cozy eatery comes from the founders of Brooklyn hotspots Daughter and Sincerely, Tommy.

On Gates Avenue, the owners of a popular food truck and Hamptons pop-up found a permanent home for their take on Bangkok street food in Bed-Stuy when they opened Little Grenjai.