What Termini Brothers Bakery is known for
Termini Brothers Bakery has hand-made Italian cannoli, cookies and pastries in Philadelphia since 1921, when brothers Giuseppe and Gaetano Termini opened its South 8th Street shop. Three generations of the family have since passed down the bakery's original cannoli-shell tools and techniques across six Philadelphia-area locations.
Termini Brothers Bakery opened in 1921 on Philadelphia's South 8th Street, founded by brothers Giuseppe and Gaetano Termini, who brought Italian pastry-making traditions into a South Philadelphia neighborhood then home to a large Italian immigrant community.
The bakery's craft has been handed down within the family for three generations, including the original tools and techniques used for its hand-shaped cannoli shells — still described by the bakery as its most celebrated item. Termini also bakes a torrone, an Italian nougat candy, to a family recipe it traces back to the early 1800s, alongside Italian cookies such as pignoli, amaretti and cucidati, coffee ring cakes, biscotti and almond horns.
Today Termini Brothers operates six Philadelphia-area locations, including its original South 8th Street flagship, a stall at Reading Terminal Market, and outposts at the Comcast Center and Live! Casino & Hotel Philadelphia. The bakery ships nationwide, continuing to sell cannoli, cookies and pastries made using its founding-era methods.
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Best for — Hand-shaped cannoli made with century-old family tools
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