Isgro Pastries
Since 1904
Philadelphia PA
2013

Venerable bake shop turning out cannoli, cakes, cookies, custards, tarts & other Italian pastries.

Philadelphia’s legendary Italian Market bakery makes pastry dreams come true. Over a century of baking obsession, repetition, and precision yields award-winning cannoli, cookies, cakes, and classic Italian sweets. Handmade in small batches and family-run since 1904.


https://www.isgropastries.com/

Isgro’s story begins in rustic Italy, winds through elegant Vienna, and settles in bustling Philadelphia. As a young teenager in Sicily, Mario Isgro’s innate cooking skill earned him a chance to study culinary arts 1,100 miles away in pastry-obsessed Vienna. He excelled in baking and brought his craft to Philadelphia in 1904. Mario opened Isgro Pastries in the food-centric Italian Market at 1009 Christian Street—where it still stands today.

A family-run operation, Isgro Pastries quickly became Philadelphia’s go-to bakery for cannoli, ricotta cookies, sfogliatelle, Italian fruit-filled cookies, almond macaroons, pignoli cookies, butter cookies, torrone, biscotti, rum cake, and so much more.