il cuore — the heart
The 9th Street Italian Market
Ten blocks of awnings, barrel fires and open crates — built by Southern Italian immigrants around Palumbo's boarding house and never closed since. Everything in this guide radiates out from here: the salumerie that still slice to order, the bakeries pulling sesame-seeded loaves at dawn, the Sunday-gravy dining rooms a block off the curb.
We walk it weekly. Which curb stand has the good figs, whose mozzarella was pulled this morning, which dining room still makes gravy the way a nonna from Abruzzo would recognize — it's all in the guides below.
Produce Curbs
Salumerie
Cheese Caves
Spring Festival
