Basil Pizza & Wine Bar
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| Basil Pizza & Wine Bar | |
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| Established | 2010 |
| Closed | 2023 |
| Location | 270 Kingston Avenue, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, 11213, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°40′13″N 73°56′32.5″W / 40.67028°N 73.942361°W |
Basil Pizza & Wine Bar was a restaurant in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
Basil is credited with "ushering in the new era of fine kosher dining in the neighborhood, " so that by 2017 The Jewish Week described Crown Heights as "an eating destination."[1] The menu featured a range of vegetarian and fish dishes, in addition to pizza baked in a wood-fired oven.[2][3]
Frank Bruni of The New York Times describes Basil, which opened in 2010 on the West Indian side of a neighborhood with a mixed population of Orthodox Jews and immigrants from the West Indies, that was beginning to attract hipsters and upscale purchasers for its fin de siecle row houses, as a "cross-cultural experiment, trying to promote better integration of, and communication between, groups in Crown Heights that haven’t always mingled much or seen eye to eye."[3][4][5][2]
Moshe Wendel was part of the team that opened Basil.[6] The Forward called Wendel, one of the "small band of chefs has led the way in kosher dining, with restaurants that rival their local non-kosher competition."[7]