Royal Pastry Shop

"Family-run bakery for Italian & American pastries, cookies, pies & custom cakes."

Royal Pastry Shop is a family-run Italian and American bakery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1941 and currently offering custom cakes, pastries, cookies, and pies. The bakery produces Italian rum cakes, cannoli, Italian cookies, and ricotta pies using recipes over a hundred years old, alongside a range of American pastries, pies, and special-occasion cakes. Established in East Cambridge in 1941 by Vincenzo and Ninetta Coppola, the shop has remained family-owned across multiple generations; current owners Lisa and Manuel, Vincenzo and Ninetta's granddaughter and her husband, have worked in the business for nearly 40 or more years. Royal Pastry Shop operates two locations: 738 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA and 317 Marrett Road, Lexington, MA. Reviewers frequently highlight the low prices relative to other Boston-area Italian pastry shops, the cannoli and lobster tails, and the old-school atmosphere; some note that the shop fills cannoli shells to order.