For anyone who has eaten at Piccolino Ristorante on Staten Island and wondered why you can’t just take some of that pasta home — the answer has arrived. The team behind Piccolino has opened Piccola Pasta Shop at 3939 Amboy Road, a retail pasta shop and Italian grocer that brings fresh handmade pasta, house-made sauces, and curated Italian imports to the South Shore.
What Piccola Pasta Shop Is
This isn’t a restaurant. It’s a shop — the kind of neighborhood Italian provisions spot that’s been largely absent from much of Staten Island’s retail landscape. You come in, you pick up fresh pasta made daily using traditional techniques, house sauces crafted in small batches, and a curated selection of Italian pantry goods. Then you take it home and cook dinner.
The shop is open Tuesday through Sunday — Tuesday through Saturday from 9 AM to 6 PM, and Sunday from 9 AM to 3 PM. Monday is closed. The address is 3939 Amboy Road, Staten Island, NY 10308, and they can be reached at (718) 885-4250.
The Connection to Piccolino
Piccolino Ristorante at 3935 Amboy Road has been a South Shore standby for years, built around the kind of Italian-American cooking that keeps regulars coming back. Piccola Pasta Shop sits just a few doors down and operates as its retail extension — same ownership, same commitment to quality, different format.
For Piccolino regulars, the shop is essentially the pantry you’ve always wanted access to. For anyone who hasn’t been to Piccolino but shops or lives along this stretch of Amboy Road, Piccola is an easy addition to a weekly errands run. The pasta is made fresh daily, which means what you’re buying is genuinely different from what you’ll find at a supermarket. Fresh tagliatelle, house sauces, and specialty imports from Italy fill the shelves and cases.
Why This Fills a Real Gap
Staten Island’s food retail landscape — particularly on the South Shore — has historically skewed toward national chains and supermarkets. Specialty shops of the kind that Piccola represents, where you’re buying from people who made the product that morning using recipes they care about, are relatively rare. That’s part of what makes this opening more interesting than the average new business.
The shop also has a wholesale program and a loyalty program called La Famiglia for regulars — worth looking into if you anticipate becoming a repeat customer, which, based on the product, seems likely.
Getting There
Piccola Pasta Shop is located at 3939 Amboy Road in the Tottenville area of Staten Island’s South Shore, near the southern end of the Staten Island Railway line. By car, Amboy Road is a main South Shore corridor and easy to reach from most parts of the island. By transit, take the Staten Island Railway to Tottenville station — the shop is accessible from there.
For more on what’s happening across Staten Island, see our recent coverage: Staten Island Spring Openings: New Dorp Gets Italian, Mall Gets New Stores and Staten Island Memorial Day 2026.
What You Need to Know
- Where: Piccola Pasta Shop, 3939 Amboy Road, Staten Island, NY 10308
- Phone: (718) 885-4250
- Hours: Tue–Sat 9 AM–6 PM; Sun 9 AM–3 PM; Closed Monday
- What they sell: Fresh handmade pasta made daily, house sauces in small batches, curated Italian pantry imports
- From the team behind: Piccolino Ristorante at 3935 Amboy Road — a South Shore institution
- Also available: Wholesale program for restaurants and specialty grocers; La Famiglia loyalty program
- Transit: Staten Island Railway to Tottenville
Source: Piccola Pasta Shop official site, verified May 2026.
