One of the Salt City’s most popular Italian restaurants is dishing up an expansion! Francesca’s Cucina on North Salina Street purchased the historic building right next door to the restaurant and will open Francesca’s Bake House, a homemade pasta and pastry shop.

Standing in the heart of Syracuse’s Little Italy, the charming storefront has always been known as the “Pasta Shop.” It’s housed the local homemade pasta shop for decades in the mid 1900s.