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Biscottificio Innocenti Bakery in Trastevere, Rome

You can almost always smell Biscottificio Innocenti before you see it. The cookie shop is tucked away down a quiet Trastevere street but the aroma of freshly baked sweets is enough to draw you down the cobblestone lane, away from the busy hubbub of the rest of the neighborhood. There are cookies and then there […]

Pasticerria Andreotti in Rome

Bigne di San Giuseppe

Pasticerria Andreotti has been a fixture in Rome’s Ostiense neighborhood for more than 80 years. The pastry was founded in 1931 by Bruno Andreotti, who came to Rome from a small town in Tuscany near Lucca. The pastry shop is still run by the family, and Marco (Bruno’s grandson) told me that the most famous desserts are […]