Fortunato Brothers • 1976

Three brothers from Naples opened this Williamsburg pastry shop in 1976, bringing old-world recipes for sfogliatelle, cannoli, and twenty flavors of house-made gelato. Zagat calls it "one of the great Italian pastry shops from the old school," and the next generation still fills the cases with rainbow cookies, marzipan sculptures, and pignoli that keep the neighborhood coming back. Step inside for a cappuccino at a window table and watch Brooklyn pass by the way it used to.