Just a few minutes away on the corner of Grand Avenue and Olive Street is Lucibello’s Italian Pastry Shop, which was established in 1929 by Frank Lucibello. Next year, the shop will celebrate its 100-year anniversary, D’Angelo said, and he hopes to host a “big celebration” for the shop’s customers to commemorate the milestone. “We make the traditional cannoli and also have flavored cannoli available that have toppings on them and are filled with different flavored ricotta (peanut butter, pistachio, cappuccino are a few examples),” he said. “We always made pastries and other desserts from the start.”ĭ’Angelo said its top-selling item remains its cannoli. “Our family immigrated from Italy and had some relatives already here in the New Haven area is how we settled in New Haven/Wooster Street,” he said in an email. Located on Wooster Street, Libby’s Italian Pastry Shop was opened in 1922 by Liberato and Guiseppina Dell’Amura, and according to member of the founding family Marc D’Angelo, the shop was churning out sweet treats from its inception. “Both shops were considered important enough 60 years ago that they were given a chance to move to new quarters when the strong arm of redevelopment came through Wooster and Chapel Streets.” “Given their age and continued family legacies, both Libby's and Lucibello's Italian pastry shops have cemented their place in Connecticut's food history because of their unparalleled quality, service and experience,” he said in an email. Caplan, author of several books on New Haven history (including one on pizza) and owner of Taste of New Haven food tours, New Haven’s pastry scene has a similar mystique to that of its pizza landscape. Nicole Funaro / Hearst Connecticut Media Group New Haven pastry spans generationsĪccording to Colin M. “We know - we conducted careful research as soon as we returned from Italy, buying and sampling pastries at three or four different shops here.”Ī traditional Italian cannoli (foreground) and sfogliatelle (background) from Libby's Italian Pastry Shop in New Haven, Conn. “Their sfogliatelle taste exactly like the ones we enjoyed at our favorite pastry shop in Sorrento,” she said. “Back in the day, East Haven was a part of New Haven anyway, so we are an extension of the Italian community.”įor DiCaprio, what keeps her going back to Lucibello’s is its similarity to shops in Italy. “Why travel to New Haven when you can get great Italian pastries and cakes in East Haven?” she said in an email. But for her, local Petonito’s Bakery is the shop of choice. Living in East Haven for most of her life, Wooster Square Cooks member Cathy Sessa Mallory has also made the rounds to New Haven haunts like Rocco’s and Lucibello’s. “My husband's family's history with them goes back to when my father-in-law was a boy.” “As someone who didn't grow up in the New Haven area (Bostonian - my family was from the Italian North End), my first experience with pastry shops here was our (rum) wedding cake from Lucibello's 46 years ago,” she said in an email. Nicole Funaro / Hearst Connecticut Media Group Noting that all of them are good, DiCaprio said her pastry preference is with Lucibello’s.Ĭhocolate-dipped cookies at Lucibello's Italian Pastry Shop on Grand Avenue in New Haven, Conn. “Just on June 30, 2021, we had my husband 80th birthday cake from them…Over the years, all our special occasions have been from them.”įellow Wooster Square Cooks member Irene Perrotta DiCaprio said she’s shopped at Libby’s, DiSorbo’s Bakery in Hamden and sometimes visits Rocco’s Bakery on Ferry Street for its chocolate lemon pie or bread. “My family has been buying pastries and cookies since before my wedding in 1965 tried others but never the same,” she said in an email, noting that she got her Italian cream wedding cake from the bakery. For member Anita Sabia Diglio, Lucibello’s Pastry Shop has been a family tradition for over 50 years. When it comes to pastry, the pastry shops of choice among its members stem from sentimentality.
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