A New York slice shop is heading back to Kingsway, a few blocks from the storefront it lost when its plaza was demolished.
We spotted new Straight Outta Brooklyn signage along Kingsway in East Vancouver, on a white storefront next to Kensington Pharmacy.
The chain used to have a Kingsway shop nearby, until its plaza near Fraser and Kingsway was cleared for redevelopment last year.
That same teardown closed Ba Le’s original deli, a 37-year fixture at 701 Kingsway, back in June 2025.
Now Straight Outta Brooklyn is planting a flag on the same street again, a few blocks up from where it started.
The unit is popping up beside BT Cafe, and the black-and-white pizzeria sign is already up over the glass.
There is no opening date yet, and little else has been shared about the shop.
Straight Outta Brooklyn comes from the same crew as some of the city’s most followed Italian spots.
That is the group behind Via Tevere, Don’t Argue Pizza, Dante Italian Sandwich, and Il Saltimbocca, with Rosalia Osteria on the way in Yaletown.
At the center of it are brothers Dom and Frank Morra, who built their name on Via Tevere’s Neapolitan pizza.
Via Tevere has spent years as one of Vancouver’s go-to Neapolitan spots, and the group has since branched into sandwiches at Dante, pies at Don’t Argue, and Italian staples at Il Saltimbocca.
Rosalia Osteria, a small pasta room named after the brothers’ grandmother, is their next opening, due in Yaletown later this summer.
Straight Outta Brooklyn is their swing at the other end of the pizza map, thin New York-style slices instead of blistered Neapolitan pies.
New York-style leans on big, foldable slices and wide, thin pies, a different animal from the puffy, charred rounds Via Tevere built its lines on.
The brand pitches itself on New York-style pizza built from signature recipes and fresh ingredients, the kind of pie meant to taste like a walk down a New York City block.
This will be the chain’s seventh location around Metro Vancouver.
It follows the sixth, which recently opened in Port Moody, so the Kingsway shop lands while the brand is clearly in expansion mode.
Six shops in and still building, the crew has grown a single Neapolitan pizzeria into one of the city’s busier restaurant families.
The Kingsway stretch it is joining is one of East Vancouver’s busiest food corridors, a run of noodle houses, cafes, and quick bites where a slice shop slots right in.
For now, the signage is the whole update, with the buildout still to come behind the glass.
The team has not said when the doors open, only that the name is going up.
Straight Outta Brooklyn on Kingsway joins a run of upcoming Vancouver food spots like Eggslut, % Arabica at Oakridge Park, and Sushi California on Seymour.
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Address: 918 Kingsway, Vancouver, BC