About Us

Ferdinando's Focacceria has fed Brooklyn since 1904. New York City's oldest Sicilian restaurant, founded to serve the longshoremen working the nearby waterfront. For over a century, this corner of Carroll Gardens has been a place where neighbors pulled up a chair and generations of families made their way back, year after year, for the panelle, the arancini, and the feeling that some things in this city never have to change.

In 2025, after 52 years of giving everything he had to this place, owner Frank Buffa hand-picked Sal Lamboglia, a Brooklyn native and neighbor, to carry it forward. It wasn't a transaction; it was a handoff made with love. Sal has reimagined Ferdinando's classics with care and intention, holding close everything that made this place so dear, while making sure it's still here for the next generation to call their own.

Welcome to Bar Ferdinando. We're so happy you're here!

Sal, Giovanna, Ricardo, and Jackie