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

The pizza is the point. The bar is why you stay.

Out front, a Brooklyn-style pizzeria: dough made daily, pies out of the oven all day, calzones, subs, hot weiners, and a Friday board with snail salad and chowder. In back, a full martini bar that runs until close.

A slice pulled from a hot pizza
The Pizzeria

Brooklyn style, not Providence style.

Large cheese 23.95, the Palermo Special loaded with salami, capicola and soppressata, and a Sicilian when you want the square.

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

Full bar. No cover. Ever.

Dirty, dry, espresso, straight up. Sit at the bar and nobody rushes you out, whether or not you ordered a pie.

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

Grab the mic or watch somebody else find out they cannot sing. Either way the bar is open.

Thursday

Open Mic Comedy

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

Saturday

Karaoke

The loud one. Late, packed, and 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 became the street they built. Bakeries, butchers, salumerias, red sauce, espresso, and an arch over the road with a bronze pinecone hanging from it. Everybody calls it the pineapple. It is a pinecone, and it means welcome.

Palermo's sits up the avenue from that arch, at 298. Same street, same idea, 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
Good pizza, nice stiff drinks.
A Google review, and honestly the whole idea
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 find the bar. There is never a cover.