Ninth Street Italian Market

Sarcone’s Bakery occupies a rowhouse on South Ninth Street that has functioned as a bakery since nineteen eighteen. You can identify the shop by its traditional, narrow storefront, which remains in the same location where Italian immigrant…

The silvery storefront of Isgro Pastries sits on Christian Street, where the scent of butter often drifts onto the sidewalk. Since nineteen oh four, this bakery has operated from this same rowhome-sized building in the Italian Market.…

The original Di Bruno Bros. shop occupies a compact footprint of roughly three hundred square feet along the Ninth Street Italian Market. Established in nineteen thirty-nine by Italian immigrant brothers Danny and Joe Di Bruno, the store…

Villa di Roma sits along South Ninth Street with a glossy, black glass block facade and a neon sign that has glowed over the Italian Market for decades. It began as two separate businesses when Domenic De Luca purchased an eatery and an…

Talluto’s Authentic Italian Foods is recognized by the sight of fresh pasta being cut in the front window. This storefront on South Ninth Street operates within the historic Italian Market, a district where food production and retail have…

Esposito's Meats sits at the corner of Ninth and Carpenter Streets, marked by its long-standing presence in the Italian Market. Attilio Esposito, an Italian immigrant, founded the butcher shop in nineteen eleven at one thousand nine South…

Fante’s Kitchen Shop sits in the heart of Philadelphia's historic Italian Market. Founded in nineteen oh six by Italian immigrants Luigi and Domenico Fante, the business began not as a kitchenware store, but as a cabinetmaker’s shop where…

Thomas Anastasi began selling fish from a pushcart in South Philadelphia in nineteen thirteen, establishing a family trade that has spanned four generations in the Italian Market. His descendants, siblings Janet Stechmans and Salvator…