Dinner inside a giant Italian market has a way of changing the whole plan.
You might sit down thinking about pasta, then realize the rest of the building is still waiting after the meal. This Plymouth trattoria shares its space with a huge Italian market, so dinner can easily spill into a little extra browsing.
The family business reaches back to the late 1960s, and the restaurant still keeps that connection close through house-made pasta and wood-fired pizza.
Reservations help when the dining room gets busy, especially if you already know this is the stop you want.
I don’t know about you, but I’d have a hard time leaving without checking the market too.
Family Ownership Keeps Cantoro Rooted In Italian Tradition
Cantoro’s story begins with the Fallone family and the Italian market that became the foundation for the business.
Mario Fallone took over Cantoro Italian Market in the late 1960s after building experience in Detroit grocery and sales. The business expanded over the years, eventually growing into the large Plymouth location that now brings the market and trattoria together under one roof.
Today, Mario’s sons John and Michael Fallone oversee day-to-day operations. The family business still centers on Italian food, including fresh pasta, bakery items, prepared foods, cheeses, specialty groceries, imported products, and the restaurant itself.
The Plymouth market also includes bakery, deli, produce, cheese, prepared-food, and specialty-grocery sections. Shoppers can move through several departments before or after sitting down for lunch or dinner.
Executive Chef Francisco Neri leads the trattoria kitchen. House-made pasta, wood-fired pizza, seafood, meat dishes, salads, and regional Italian preparations all sit within the restaurant’s regular format.
The Fallone family remains involved in the same business that carries the Cantoro name. The Plymouth property combines restaurant service, food retail, in-house production, and private dining within one family-run operation.
The Restaurant Sits Inside A Massive Italian Market
Cantoro Trattoria sits inside the Plymouth Cantoro Italian Market, a 55,000-square-foot space devoted to Italian food and specialty products.
The market carries produce, cheeses, breads, pastries, prepared foods, fresh pasta, pantry staples, imported goods, and other Italian products.
Its departments stretch well beyond a standard restaurant lobby, giving the building a full grocery and specialty-food side alongside the dining room.
The bakery handles breads, pastries, cakes, and other baked goods. The deli and prepared-food areas add ready-to-eat options, while the cheese and grocery sections bring in both domestic and imported Italian products.
Fresh pasta is also part of the market operation, giving pasta a place on both the retail side and the trattoria menu.
Lunch and dinner take place within that larger setting. A restaurant reservation and a market visit can happen in the same stop without moving the car or changing locations.
The Plymouth property also includes space for private dining and larger gatherings. Restaurant service, food production, retail departments, bakery counters, prepared foods, and specialty groceries all operate within the same 55,000-square-foot location.
The prepared-food and bakery areas also give shoppers ready-made items to take home without ordering from the trattoria dining room.
House-Made Pasta Is Prepared In The Plymouth Kitchen
House-made pasta is one of the central parts of Cantoro Trattoria.
The kitchen prepares pasta in-house, and pasta appears across multiple preparations rather than being limited to one signature dish. Filled pasta, long noodles, gnocchi, and other shapes fit within the restaurant’s regional Italian menu.
The market side also produces and sells fresh pasta, giving pasta a place in both the restaurant and retail operation. Shoppers can find fresh pasta in the same building where the trattoria serves house-made pasta at lunch and dinner.
Executive Chef Francisco Neri leads the kitchen team, with pasta sharing the menu with pizza, seafood, meat dishes, salads, appetizers, and desserts.
Cantoro’s regional Italian approach lets pasta appear with different sauces, vegetables, meats, and seafood. The kitchen is not built around one pasta shape or one preparation.
A pasta order can be a main course or one part of a longer meal with appetizers, salads, meat, seafood, or dessert.
Fresh pasta production also extends beyond restaurant service. The market’s pasta department sells fresh pasta for home cooking, while the trattoria prepares pasta for restaurant service.
Both parts of the business operate inside the Plymouth property, with pasta appearing on the retail and dining sides.
Wood-Fired Pizza Comes From An Italian Pizza Oven
Pizza has its own place at Cantoro Trattoria, prepared in a wood-burning Italian pizza oven.
The menu includes classic and specialty pies, giving pizza a separate lane beside the pasta, seafood, meat, and salad sections. A Margherita keeps the combination familiar, while other pizzas use different cheeses, vegetables, and meats.
The wood-burning oven is part of the restaurant kitchen, so pizza is prepared as a full menu category alongside the other Italian dishes.
At lunch, pizza can be ordered with salads or appetizers. At dinner, tables can mix pizza with pasta, seafood, meat dishes, and other selections from the menu.
The broader Cantoro operation also carries breads, cheeses, cured meats, vegetables, and Italian pantry products through the market surrounding the restaurant.
Pizza can be ordered alongside pasta, seafood, salads, or meat entrées, allowing several menu categories to share the same table.
Executive Chef Francisco Neri oversees the kitchen team responsible for those categories, including the pizzas coming from the wood-burning oven.
The oven remains part of regular restaurant service during both the lunch and dinner periods offered Tuesday through Saturday.
Regional Italian Dishes Stretch Beyond Pasta And Pizza
Cantoro Trattoria serves regional Italian specialties with a contemporary approach.
The menu includes seafood, meat dishes, salads, appetizers, pasta, pizza, and desserts. Pasta and pizza remain separate menu categories, with seafood, meat dishes, salads, appetizers, and desserts adding further choices.
Seafood and meat entrées sit beside lighter salads and starters, while pasta and pizza remain available as separate sections of the menu.
The Plymouth market adds more Italian food around the dining room. Fresh pasta, cheese, bakery items, prepared foods, imported groceries, sauces, pantry staples, and sweets are all available within the same building.
Gelato and bakery desserts are also part of the wider Cantoro operation. Pastries, cakes, breads, and other baked goods come from the market’s bakery department, while gelato adds another Italian sweet option within the Plymouth location.
The restaurant menu covers pasta, pizza, seafood, meat, salads, appetizers, and desserts, while the surrounding market adds fresh and prepared foods to take home.
Dessert can stay in the restaurant or continue through the bakery and gelato offerings elsewhere in the building. The bakery and gelato operations sit within the broader Plymouth market, alongside the retail departments and restaurant.
Reservations And Private Dining Cover Small And Large Groups
Cantoro Trattoria accepts reservations, including bookings through OpenTable, and reservation activity can reach dozens of bookings in a single day.
The Plymouth location also has dedicated private dining spaces for groups that go well beyond a standard restaurant table.
The Mezzanine can seat up to 200 guests. Another private room can accommodate up to 90, giving the restaurant separate spaces for large gatherings as well as ordinary lunch and dinner reservations.
Those rooms are part of the same Plymouth property as the trattoria and market. Private events take place within the larger Cantoro operation rather than at a separate location.
Regular restaurant service continues alongside the private-dining options. Small groups can reserve a normal table, while larger parties have dedicated rooms with substantially more seating capacity.
The restaurant’s booking system lets diners choose a date and time before arriving. On busy days, OpenTable booking counts can climb well above fifty reservations.
Group sizes can therefore range from a regular dining-room table to private spaces designed for dozens or even hundreds of guests.
The private rooms add another service to a property that already combines a market, bakery, deli, specialty grocery departments, and the trattoria.
Six Days Of Service Keep Cantoro Moving Through The Week
Cantoro Trattoria serves lunch Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dinner follows Tuesday through Saturday from 4:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Sunday runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. with the dinner menu, while Monday is closed.
You will find Cantoro Trattoria at 15550 N Haggerty Rd, Plymouth, MI 48170, inside the Plymouth Cantoro Italian Market.
The Tuesday-through-Saturday schedule separates lunch and dinner into two service periods. Sunday uses one afternoon window and serves the dinner menu throughout that stretch.
The market remains part of the same Plymouth stop, with bakery, deli, cheese, produce, prepared-food, fresh-pasta, and grocery departments operating around the restaurant.
Private dining spaces also remain available within the location, including the Mezzanine and the additional private room used for larger groups.
Across six days of restaurant service, Cantoro combines a 55,000-square-foot Italian market, house-made pasta, pizza from a wood-burning Italian oven, regional Italian cooking, private dining, and a kitchen led by Executive Chef Francisco Neri.
The Fallone family continues to oversee the broader operation, while the trattoria serves lunch, dinner, and Sunday afternoon service inside the Plymouth market.