While the repertoire of pastries at so many of Fall River’s Portuguese-accented bakeries is mostly sweet snacks and breads to take home, as well as fried malasadas, there is a whole other category of bakery in Fall River – the kind of place where you sit down and have a savory meal.
Marzilli’s is a prize example, its outdoor sign subtitled “Grinder – Pizza.” The menu here is similar to what you find in sleeves-up Mediterranean places throughout Southern New England, but with distinct southeastern Massachusetts flavor. Calzones are called chourico rolls, and they come filled with crumbled sausage; there are South Coast stuffies (stuffed quohog clams), kale soup, and Portuguese custard tarts.
Pizza is offered bakery-style, known as a tray, meaning that it is medium-thin, like focaccia, and generally bought by the individual piece, known as a square, and served cheeseless, at room temperature with toppings other than chourico a rarity. Grinders (the regional term for a submarine sandwich), are made on soft, fresh loaves that are delicious in and of themselves, but especially so when loaded with anything from meatballs to a chord of good Italian cold cuts. They come in three sizes; a large one, selling for about $10, is a good two feet long.
Sunday | CLOSED |
Monday | 8am - 5pm |
Tuesday | 8am - 5pm |
Wednesday | 8am - 5pm |
Thursday | 8am - 5pm |
Friday | 8am - 5pm |
Saturday | 8am - 4pm |
Other Nearby Restaurants
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Oxford Creamery
Mattapoisett, MassachusettsNew England summer seafood at its best. Oxford Creamery lobster rolls are legendary; fried clams are superb, too. A Mattapoisett, Massachusetts restaurant gem!
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Lyndell’s Bakery
Somerville, MassachusettsLyndell’s of Somerville, Massachusetts is one of America’s oldest bakeries, known for dense buttercream frosting and soft sponge cakes.
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Kitchen Little
Stonington, ConnecticutOmelets are stupendous at this shoreline restaurant, but don’t slight lunch: fine burgers, world-class fried clams, and Southern New England Style clam chowder.
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Mike’s Kitchen
Cranston, Rhode IslandInconspicuously located in a VFW hall, Mike’s Kitchen is a great seafood restaurant with a Rhode Island / Italian accent.
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Evelyn’s Drive-In
Tiverton, Rhode IslandEvelyn’s is a Rhode Island drive-in with a full Yankee shoreline menu of fried clams, clam cakes, and chowder, plus the local oddity, a chow mein sandwich.
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J.J.’s Coney Island
Fall River, MassachusettsJ.J.’s is a top hot dog restaurant of Fall River, Massachusetts, with Coney Island wieners, chourico rolls, stuffed quahogs, and South Coast chow mein.