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Two Upscale Pizza Joints Open on Flatbush Ave. in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens

 Pizza with local ingredients will be the focus at ZuriLee Pizza Bar, a new restaurant in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.
Pizza with local ingredients will be the focus at ZuriLee Pizza Bar, a new restaurant in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.
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PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS — Fancy pizza is finding a home on Flatbush Avenue.

Two pizza joints serving upscale pies opened in the neighborhood last week, each delivering alternatives to your typical slice.

Serving wood-fired pies with local ingredients and beer on tap, ZuriLee Pizz Bar opened at 755 Flatbush Ave. just south of Clarkson Avenue last Wednesday, the restaurant announced on Facebook. The store is the creation of Paul and Jermaine Burrowes, brothers and co-owners of Caribbean favorite Mangoseed, located next door to the new pizza spot.

“Deeply inspired by the local community, ZuriLee Pizza Bar will offer an exciting menu of innovative approaches to old favorites, highlighting locally sourced ingredients to ensure the freshest seasonal foods,” the announcement read.

A couple blocks north of ZuriLee, a second pizza restaurant, Parkside, is getting ready to fully open at 705 Flatbush Ave. near Parkside Avenue. Though the shop still has paper on the windows, it opened for dinner on Saturday, residents said, with a menu of pies topped with an array of flavorful ingredients including eggplant, mussels or lamb sausage for between $10 to $15.

The new Parkside restaurant opened Saturday night for dinner at their new Flatbush Avenue location. (Composite photo credit: DNAinfo/Rachel Holliday Smith and Roxie Vizcarra)

The restaurant, which according to the Q at Parkside blog is operated by a former chef at Prospect Heights favorite Franny’s, also offers a dozen specialty cocktails for $12 each, including the “Conjugal Visit” made with black tea vodka, strawberry, basil, coconut, honey and Angostura bitters and the “Jungle Bird” made with rum, pineapple, Campari and lime.