Definition of "pasticceria"

Pastries and fancy cakes are served with coffee or wine in cafés, and Italians buy them at pasticcerie to take home for holidays or for special occasions. But these sophisticated creations of the pasticcerie are not often attempted by busy home cooks.

1990, the Moosewood Collective, Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant: Ethnic and Regional Recipes from the Cooks at the Legendary Restaurant, Fireside, page 371

Everything, except bars and restaurants, closes on Sunday, though you might find pasticcerias, and fish shops in some coastal towns, open until lunchtime.

2002, Robert Andrews, Jules Brown, Sicily, 5th edition, Rough Guides Ltd, page 42

The neighborhood stores – the pasticcerie, the salumerie – are a delight.

2007, Catherine Richards, Adventure Guide to Milan and the Italian Lakes, Hunter Publishing, Inc., page 1

In Capri there are many small pasticcerias that sell this delicious, crumbly bitter chocolate and almond cake.

2009, Rose Gray, Ruth Rogers, The River Cafe Classic Italian Cookbook, Michael Joseph, published 2017

Eventually, the ancient Piazza Navona, with its famous Baroque fountain in the middle of a first-century Roman circus, its outdoor cafes and pasticcerias serving delectable dolci, its roving portrait artists and lively street theater, would be way too touristy for the cool American students we’d become, but for a first night’s foray into the Roman evening it made a perfect destination.

2011, Tim O’Donnell, A View from the Back Pew: God, Religion & Our Personal Quest for Truth, Linchpin Publishing LLC

At the beautiful pasticcerias, Benedicta and Father Giuseppe got themselves each a cup of coffee.

2015, Morson Livingston, The Hidden Revelation, Xlibris

Many pasticcerie also made pizza; in fact, the dedicated pizzeria was not that common back in the day.

2016, Joseph C. Polacco, Vina: A Brooklyn Memoir, Compass Flower Press

He lived, as did many Italian immigrants of the time in Carlton, known as “Little Italy”, on the fringe of Melbourne city. It was a safe, vibrant, community with Italian delis, restaurants, pasticcerias, coffee bars, a movie theatre, and of course a gelateria.

2022, Deanna LoTerzo, Bright Mind, Happy Heart, Best Life: An Unbelievably Simple, Proven Path to Rapid, Remarkable Change, FriesenPress, page 147