A favorite of Fordham students since the ’80s, this eclectic pizza parlor right near campus is known for its chicken rolls and its eccentric, hammy owner Sal Natale. The slices and garlic knots are excellent, and heart-shaped love pies add additional charm. Specials named for Fordham students hang from the counter on printed-out paper (try the J. Rossi power burger, involving a giant hamburger patty sandwiched between pizza dough). The place often closes briefly during the summer months while students are away.

This longtime pizzeria has been leaning more into its Albanian heritage, now advertising itself as a source for burek and yogurt. Both the meat and the spinach and cheese pies are great, but for something a little harder-to-find, give the pumpkin-filled version of the pastry a whirl. Find baklava here, too.

If you crave a taste of your Italian vacation, this half-century-old grocery, coffee shop, and prepared foods store can provide it. Imported cheeses, charcuterie, pasta and pasta sauces, and dishes such as chicken cacciatore, eggplant rollatini, and lasagna are all ready to take home. This makes a comfortable place to pause for a handful of cookies and a foamy cappuccino.

Founded in 1912, Egidio has been a neighborhood hangout for more than a century, drawing demitasses of coffee and plating classic Neapolitan pastries for customers who love to linger. Vast pastry cases contain cannoli, eclairs, layer cakes, butter cookies, and biscotti, and the staff will be glad to make suggestions. Particularly recommended is the ricotta-filled sfogliatelle, a variation on lobster tale filled with semolina and ricotta and studded with preserved orange rind, as well as the rainbow cookies and leaf-shaped ones glazed with chocolate.

Founded in 1935, this storefront looks every year of its age. It dispenses fettuccine in a variety of widths, and stuffed pastas like ravioli in a number of shapes and sizes, with fillings that run to porcini, pumpkin, ricotta, and spinach. Consider trying the lobster ravioli.

Teitel Brothers was founded in 1915 by two Jewish brothers who realized, with the increasing area population of Italian immigrants, they ought to be stocking things like olive oil, salt cod, canned tomatoes, and cheeses. Those products, along with domestic salamis and imported prosciutto, still line the shelves and spill out onto the sidewalk of this small and ancient-looking corner store.

Founded in 1979, Joe’s is a relative latecomer to the Arthur Avenue neighborhood. But step inside the deep premises and find a very old-fashioned stock of Italian groceries, wooden trencher tables for eating, vats of fried eggplant and chicken cutlets, cold cuts, cheeses — in short, all the fixings for what are some of the neighborhoods best Italian heros.

If you want to take home a loaf of bread or just something sweet, dash into Madonia Bakery, where the shelves are lined with baked goods, some still warm. The cannoli is the classic buy here, either small or large. Watch as the shell is filled with a creamy ricotta studded with chocolate chips.

This concrete block structure, built in 1941 by legendary mayor Fiorello LaGuardia to get the pushcarts off the streets, doesn’t look like much from the outside, but inside is a wonderland of meat vendors, sandwich makers, pasta sellers, and even a cigar-rolling shop (Bronx fixture Chaz Palminteri apparently stops by sometimes for events), a reminder of the tobacco farms that were once located here. Mike’s Deli is a good place to get a taste of charcuterie or sandwiches, while a pair of competing meat markets specialize in the offal that was central to Italian cuisine in the old country.

Directly across the street from Dominick’s lies Mario’s, open since 1919, and also serving lunch. It is decorated in the grand Roman style with busts and oil paintings, which you are likely to love or hate. The vast menu is much larger than Dominick’s, including many Roman specialties. Check out spiedini alla Romana, a gloppy toasted cheese sandwich with anchovy sauce, or saltimbocca, veal scaloppine with spinach and prosciutto in a pungent Marsala wine sauce.

Estrellita Poblana III is a 15-year veteran of the neighborhood dispensing tacos, hand-patted quesadillas, cheese-stuffed chiles relleno, chicken mole enchiladas, and other Pueblan fare.

An elaborate chandelier hangs from the ceiling, and a mammoth list of specials is featured on the wall of this old-school restaurant open since 1989 just off Arthur Avenue. That board of specials contains treasures like a Genovese pasta studded with short rib and topped with bone marrow. Antipasti is generous with mussels and clams in a choice of red or white sauces, and the cotechino dish brings together Northern Italian sausage, cannellini beans, and broccoli rabe in a satisfying combination.