TROY, N.Y. — Bella Napoli Bakery recently joined the New York State Historic Business Preservation Registry. The bakery was founded in 1957 by John Mainella on River Street. Sixty-eight years later, ...

Bella Napoli's Instagram feed (@bellanapoli_bakery) often goes behind the scenes of the baking operation. (Screenshot from Instagram) When Dominic Mainella looks at the people waiting to order ...

TROY — There are formulas at Bella Napoli Italian American Bakery that have been handed down for 50 years from baker to baker. Their origins are purely Italian — possibly dating back to before the ...

Dominic Mainella, pictured, and his three younger siblings run Bella Napoli Bakery, a business started by their parents, John and Phyllis, in Troy in 1957. Donna ...

TROY — The man who founded the Bella Napoli Bakery in downtown Troy, growing it from a small family operation into a landmark city business, died Thursday night. He was 78. John V. Mainella immigrated ...

Cohoes Rocco Rosati, an Italian immigrant and humble bread baker who toiled six nights a week for 40 years at Bella Napoli Bakery, and used his labors to fund trips with his wife to exotic locales ...

The team behind Moretti's Ristorante & Pizzeria restaurants, Ala Carte Entertainment, is opening a new woodfired pizza concept in the Northwest Suburbs. Bella Napoli takes inspiration from the kitchens ...