ZuriLee Pizza Bar Is A Prospect Lefferts Gardens Foodie Gem

There are smiles to go around at ZuriLee Pizza Bar on 755 Flatbush Avenue, and if you knew your food was going to bless every taste bud and enzyme of every soul that walked through your door, you’d smile too.

Greeted by LaLa, manager of ZuriLee and sister restaurant MangoSeed in Bed-Stuy, started diners — selected for a special tasting — off with an amazing, apple slice filled sangria. Candle lit wooden tables with high-seated, gingerbread brown leather booth seats and warm lighting make for great finger food! “Not too knife and forky around here,” said LaLa, as four young women, including myself, indulged in truffle edamame for starters.

Diners sat in the main dining area that gave all necessary views. From our booth, we had a view of the partial open kitchen that allows for patrons to see the food being made, as well as, prepared food leaving the kitchen to be served. The ZuriLee logo was plastered on the massive white wall parallel to our booth, drawing your eyes directly to the back to set your sights on the brick oven area. “Pizza’s will also be served from here, so there will be food leaving the kitchen from more than one area.”

If you’re a foodie like myself, I always ask the owner(s) or chef their recommendation and I have two for you! The Funky Flatbush pie which is jam packed with bold flavors, as well as the What The Pie, which contains all of the toppings from all of their pies.

Food preparation always makes for great conversation. In this time, I’ve learned, “this area is really lacking a lunch spot, so that’s something we want to bring to the neighborhood.” Way to keep the community in mind guys!

Conversation continued as I browsed through the menu, mentally preparing myself for the food to come and then I read the words “curry salmon.” (Major note for the anaphylactic folk, not to worry, No peanuts in sight!)

I politely raised my hand and asked, “so about this jerk chicken…” Then LaLa gave us the scoop. A few doors down, resides MangoSeed, the brother-owned duo’s first venture still running after 6 years, where they serve fusion Caribbean food, “and they decided to bring those ideas over to pizza.” When you go to ZuriLee, and I know you will, the Brooklyn Food entree menu holds all of these dishes.

After a few moments, Jermaine, one half of the owner duo,  joined the diners at the table. Just a few moments after, my personal favorite dish — Crostino: smoked salmon pastrami, whipped Philly cream cheese with scallions, served on toast and drizzled with honey, followed.
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You wouldn’t believe what was up next: Bake and Salt Fish Pizza served with pepper sauce; not hot sauce. This is one of those “off the menu” kind of dishes, so, you’re welcome. “We decided to take a Caribbean delicacy and turn it into a pie.”

Following that, diners got to sample a dish for their up and coming brunch menu: Pumpernickel toast loaded with ricotta cheese, pulled oxtail and fried egg. AH-MAZ-ING and that’s all I’ve got for you. We ended the night with one more glass of sangria and a few delectable lamb sliders.

Fun Facts:

• The owners of MangoSeed and now ZuriLee are brothers who are well known in the sneaker collecting world.
• ZuriLee is actually a combination of the owners’ children’s middle names.
• The names of the pizzas are inspired by sneakers, like collector Jordan’s! I.E. Chicago 1.5 and Bre[A]d 4: which has 4 toppings, all of the Jordan Bred’s have a red inner lining, so all of the Bre[A]d pies have red sauce.
• All pies are 12″ except for the Chicago 1.5 which is 10″, deep dish pizza to honor the windy city.

Best way to get to ZuriLee: Q train to Parkside and tell them OurBKSocial sent you.

Thank us later!