February 28 2023, a night to remember. We have been invited to participate as The Bartenters to the show with Andy Cohen. We displayed our schiacciata best seller sandwiches and our cantucci. Andy is a big fan of them, and even though he keeps calling them BISCOTTI… we forgive him because he’s such a nice guy!! We ship our cantucci nationwide, as he mentioned, so place your order now and choose your packaging and the flavors you want here ON LINE STORE The same night of the Live, our shop online was burning up with new orders and our email crashed for the many emails from all over the nation ..read more

We are very excited to share with you this incredible news! We are opening soon in the Powerhouse Art district in JC downtown, an amazing space formerly ran by our friends at Bucket & Bay that will allow us to continue serving our authentic Tuscan sandwiches and cantucci to this side of the city. Hopefully when the pandemic will be over, there will be time to reunite and enjoy events and Tuscan dinners with all our community. We look forward to seeing you here! Thank YOU for your continued and precious support. Check out what they say: https://jerseydigs.com/prato-bakery-expanding-to-150-b ..read more

Dear friends, as you know the pandemic crisis is hitting hard on the lives and business of everyone all over the world. We decided to remain open to serve our community, but with necessary regulations to guarantee the health and safety of you and our employees. When visiting our locations in Hoboken and Jersey City (only for TAKE OUT) please maintain a 6 feet distance from the person in front of you. Don't come if you are sick! If you decide to stay home, use our partners Postmates, Seamless Uber Eats or Grubhub to order your food (you can find a link in our menu page in this website). If you ..read more

Pan di Ramerino is a sweet roll with raisins and rosemary ('ramerino' is rosemary in Tuscan dialect) that can be found in any bakery in the Florentine area nowadays but its origins started in the 12th century! This kind of bread, a perfect balance between savory and sweet, was originally intended as a devotional product, with each of its flavors tied to symbolic significance. It was considered an Easter bread in the Catholic religion and sold by vendors outside the church, often blessed by the priest. The bread and raisins are metaphors of life, immortality and prosperity (grapes) which repre ..read more

If you’ve been lucky enough to travel to Italy more than once, you've realized that almost every town and for sure every region has its own delicious culinary tradition. You can easily enjoy polenta with ‘osei’ in the northeast while you may have a hard time finding ‘arancini’. That’s why you need to visit Italy in its entirety: from the Dolomites to the Mediterranean small islands that stretch out south of Sicily. Tuscany is known for its land and food, but between the food the first thing that Italians also recognize as 'different' is the bread. Tuscan bread is in fact traditionally unsalte ..read more

Summer is almost over, you might say, but since the weather is nice and hot you can find juicy tomatoes at the farmer's market! The main ingredients for the Panzanella are, in fact, the juiciest tomatoes you can lay your hands on and our filone toscano bread. Why? Because the filone toscano that we make is the traditional tuscan bread without salt (maybe the reason for the tuscan bread to be unsalted deserves a post in the blog by itself!) and the original recipe requires this kind of bread, being a tuscan recipe! Just remember to buy it a few days before you decide to make the panzanella, be ..read more

A Slice of Tuscany in Jersey City "We thought that our food in Tuscany is very good, very simple, and we thought that America would appreciate this kind of food". Villi said. "Everything is made following the ancient recipe(s), to maintain the tradition". Everything is made following the ancient recipe(s), to maintain the tradition. Secret Recipe Bertini, the baker in the business, guards his cantucci recipe well ..read more