This bustling Italian food hub boasts a cafeteria-style service with hearty pastas, subs, pizza, and an enticing market filled with quality meats, cheeses, and irresistible desserts.
"Cossetta has grown tremendously since its early days as a small Italian grocery store — over the past century, it’s added a full-service restaurant and bar, a pizza counter, a pasticceria, and a tavern. There’s something magical about Cossetta’s combination of mostaccioli, tangy red sauce, and ricotta. Fill up a bag of sweet venchi, canoli, and macarons to go." - Justine Jones, Eater Staff
"First founded in 1911 by Michael Cossetta — an immigrant from Calabria, Italy who put down roots in St. Paul’s Upper Levee, the one-time heart of the city’s Italian community — Cossetta has grown into a multi-story pizzeria, pasticceria, restaurant, and tavern. Grab a slice of fresh, trattoria-style pizza, a densely layered lasagna al forno, or an order of arancini at the cafe; the pasticceria, modeled with Old World Italian flair, doles out tiramisu, chocolate-dipped cannoli, and scratch-made gelato from long glass pastry cases." - Eater Staff
"First founded in 1911, Cossetta has grown into a multi-story pizzeria, pasticceria, restaurant, and tavern. For an easy mid-day meal, rab a slice of fresh, trattoria-style pizza; a densely layered lasagna al forno; or an order of arancini at the cafe. Lunch is not complete without a stop in the pasticceria, which doles out tiramisu, chocolate-dipped cannoli, and scratch-made gelato." - Justine Jones, Joy Summers, Eater Staff
"For classic Italian-style gelato — more dense and rich than ice cream, thanks to a higher milk to cream ratio and a slow churn — head straight to St. Paul’s Cossetta. Flavors range from pistachio to canella to amaretto, and a number of tarty, fruity sorbets are also on offer." - Eater Staff, Stacy Brooks
"Cossetta, St. Paul’s beloved Italian marketplace, has a killer pasticceria. Stop by for tiramisu, cannoli, cream puffs, and homemade gelato." - Justine Jones, Stacy Brooks
