Via Vittorio Emanuele Orlando 75, Castro Pretorio, Rome
A Sicilian pastry shop near Termini that has been serving exceptional cannoli, cassata, and arancini since the 1960s.
Best for Cannoli, cassata and Sicilian pastry in Rome
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Pâtissiers & Confectioners in Rome
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Panella is a bakery and gourmet shop that blends Roman tradition with modern innovation.
Best for Roman bread, pizza and pastries on Via Merulana
Panella traces its bakery to 1929, when Augusto Panella founded the business. The company later came under the direction of Maria Grazia Panella, whose work with bread began in 1970 and included study with bakers across Europe. Its Rome premises stand between San Giovanni in Laterano and Santa Maria Maggiore, close to the Auditorium of Maecenas. Bread remains the organising idea rather than one department among many. The bakery says it produces more than seventy kinds of bread. Roman and regional Italian recipes share the range with preparations adapted from ancient Rome, and Panella records more than thirty years of work on gluten-free products. The oven programme includes pizza and breadsticks. Biscuits and friselle appear as well, alongside wine biscuits and bruschetta. Panella describes its pizza as receiving a day-long rise before baking on the stone floor of a Matador oven. These details place the business within a family bakery tradition and show the scale of its bread research. They also explain the breadth of its production and the techniques behind a central part of the menu.
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Gabriele Bonci's bakery — if Pizzarium is his temple, this is his laboratory, with exceptional bread, focaccia, pizza, and pastries made from heritage grains and long fermentation.
Best for Heritage-grain bread, focaccia and pastries
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Run by the Gronchi family since 1927, this pastry shop on Via Roma has been the official maker of the Torta dei Fieschi since 1949, baking the dessert each year for the medieval Fieschi reenactment in Piazza dei Fieschi on August 14th. Its signature Carugetti pair hazelnut meringue with dark chocolate alongside a case of traditional Ligurian sweets and brioche.
Best for Torta dei Fieschi and Carugetti pastries
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