E.Rossi & Company is Little Italy‘s oldest gift shop, and it’s full of surprises. “It’s like stepping into a bowl of minestrone soup; you don’t know what you’re going to find,” owner Ernie Rossi said. He’s named after his grandfather Ernesto, who immigrated from Italy in 1900.

“In 1910, he opened up this business, and he sold newspapers and magazines in Italian. And then, as years went by, he added on other items: house, cookware products, coffee pots, pasta makers, spaghetti bowls, and then religious articles,” he said.