Royal Pastry
About
Royal Pastry Shop is a family-owned Italian bakery with its original shop in East Cambridge and a second location in Lexington. Its pastries, cakes and cookies are still made from recipes dating back more than a century, and the counters hold cannoli, Italian and American pastries, layer cakes such as chocolate strawberry and strawberry whipped cream, pies and even pizza. Classic and newer cake flavors share the case.
The bakery was founded in 1941 by Vincenzo and Ninetta Coppola. Vincenzo, of Sicilian descent, came to Boston in 1925, worked in his uncle’s North End pastry shop and later in Hartford’s Italian neighborhood, where he met Ninetta, a native of Floridia, Sicily. Their twin sons, Salvatore and Ernest, joined in 1960 and opened the Lexington shop. Today the founders’ granddaughter Lisa and her husband Manuel own the business.
What to Know
- The business has been in the same family for three generations.
- Ninetta Coppola immigrated to Hartford in 1920, before meeting Vincenzo there.
- Classic Italian rum cakes have been part of the bakery’s history since at least 1950.
- It is listed with Lexington Tourism.
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