Palermo's Brooklyn Pizza on Atwells Avenue

298 Atwells Avenue · Federal Hill

Brooklyn pizza.
Federal Hill nights.

A pizzeria and a full martini bar under one roof, on the most Italian street in Rhode Island. Karaoke Wednesday and Saturday. Comedy on Thursday. No cover, ever.

Find us

298 Atwells Ave

Open daily

11am to 11pm

The nights

Karaoke · Comedy

One door, two rooms

A pizzeria out front. A proper bar in the back.

Out front, a Brooklyn-style pizzeria: dough made daily, calzones, subs, veal and eggplant parm, and a Friday board with snail salad and chowder. Through the door beside the counter, a full bar that runs until close.

A slice pulled from a hot pizza
The Pizzeria

Dough made daily. Pies all day.

A large cheese is 23.95. The Palermo Special comes heavy with salami, capicola and soppressata. Sicilian by the square when you want it.

The full menu
A guest with a martini at the bar
The Martini Bar

A proper martini, poured cold.

Dirty, dry, espresso, straight up. Sit down, take your time, and nobody moves you along. There is never a cover.

The bar

The nights

Three nights a week, the back room fills up.

No cover on any of them. No drink minimum either.

Wednesday

Karaoke

The mic goes on and the room gets loud. Sing one, or hold the bar down and let somebody else take it.

Thursday

Open Mic Comedy

Providence comics working out new material. Sign-ups at 7:30, show at 8:30, in the back room.

Saturday

Karaoke

The big one. Later, fuller, and still free. Bring the whole table.

Providence, Rhode Island at dusk

The neighborhood

Federal Hill has been feeding this city for a hundred years.

Italian families started arriving on the Hill in the 1890s, and Atwells Avenue is the street they built. Bakeries, butchers, salumerias, red sauce, espresso, and an arch over the road with a bronze pinecone hanging from it. Half the city calls it the pineapple. It is a pinecone, and in the old country it means welcome.

Palermo's sits up the avenue from that arch, at 298. Same street, same table manners, still open late.


Hours

Open every day of the week.

  • Monday & Tuesday11:00am – 11:00pm
  • Wednesday Karaoke11:00am – 11:00pm
  • Thursday Comedy11:00am – 11:00pm
  • Friday Fish & Chips11:00am – 11:00pm
  • Saturday Karaoke11:00am – 11:00pm
  • Sunday11:00am – 11:00pm

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The pizza oven

What the neighborhood says

Four point six on Google, and the doors only just reopened.

4.6 Google reviews
★★★★★
Had a delicious meal with my wife. Did the dinner special that was only $50 in the bar, included a bottle of wine. Highly recommend.
Ron Google review
★★★★★
Good pizza, nice stiff drinks.
Nick Caretta Local Guide · Google review
★★★★★
Great place and food.
Zachary Carter Google review

Order

Pick up, or have it brought to you.

Calling the shop is the fastest way, and it is the way the kitchen likes it. The apps deliver, and they set their own prices.

The bar at night

Come by

298 Atwells. Up past the arch.

Walk in for a slice, call ahead for a pie, or come through the door beside the counter and sit at the bar. There is never a cover.