Mark Connell, a co-owner of the recently closed Oma Grassa, is looking to open a new restaurant in the same space, 753 Fulton St. in Fort Greene, according to a liquor license application filed with Brooklyn Community Board 2.
Opened in 2022, Oma Grassa was a hybrid between a natural wine bar and a sit-down pizza place, serving a hybrid pizza developed by Connell’s co-owner Adam Baumgart, a merging of Naples and New York styles. It occupied a 1,800 square-foot corner space along Fulton Street, flanked by windows, so the restaurant would light up the street corner. Think Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, but less lonely, and there’s pizza, which Eater’s review called, “pizza catapulted into the modern era.”
The restaurant closed in late 2025. In Brooklyn CB 2’s meeting, a representative of the restaurant mentioned that natural wines were unsustainable, so they were planning to extend their drink selection.
Oma Grassa was just one of Connell’s restaurants, also owning Botanica Bar and Estele in Nolita and Beltane by Union Square. The yet-to-be-named restaurant is still in its conceptual phase, Connell telling What Now New York that he doesn’t have any concrete plans as of yet.
