Perreca’s Bakery

Specialties

Perreca’s Bakery has been run by the same family for 100 years! We specialize in hard-​crusted Italian bread baked in our unique coal-​fired brick oven. We also have the best cupcakes you’ve ever tasted, made with real buttercream and weighing in at ½ pound each.

MORE Perreca’s restaurant is adjacent to our iconic bakery and serves breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday from 7:00am and seating right up until 8:00pm. Here, you can experience the kind of authentic Italian cuisine found in every Italian grandmother’s kitchen. Some of our signature dishes include: Eggs in Purgatory; Braciole; Old School Sausage & Peppers; and of course we have excellent Eggplant, Chicken, and Veal Parmesan!

History

Established in 1914.

Perreca’s has been run continuously by the same family for 100 years!

Perreca’s considered a landmark by locals in Upstate New York and a must see destination for visitors.

Meet the Business Owner

Maria P.

Business Owner

Prior to joining the family business, Maria was managing director at Hill and Knowlton, Inc., Public Relations/​Public Affairs. As such, she held responsibility for media relations activities on behalf of such clients as Pepsi Cola/​Frito Lay; The Kellogg Company; The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the American Diabetes Association, and Schering-​Plough Pharmaceuticals. She has been nominated for Creativity in Public Relations Award (CIPRA). Maria also spent many years at Random House, Inc. where she worked worked with such authors as Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club), and Katherine Hepburn, as well as Pulitzer Prize winner and syndicated columnist, Dave Barry. She has also been a regular literary critic for Publisher’s Weekly. Maria is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College She also holds an MBA in marketing and Information Technologies from New York University’s School of Business.

She lives in Schenectady and enjoys DIY home renovation and collecting grammar books.