Original Pastizzi

About Original Pastizzi

Family-owned Maltese bakery and manufacturing kitchen on Suffolk Road trading as The Original Maltese Pastizzi Co. — branded Original Pastizzi on the official site. Charlie and Jane Portelli founded the business in 2005; Oscar and Melissa Wassilieff took over in 2014, adding a hot pastizzi counter (about $2 each), espresso, outdoor seating, and imported Maltese groceries while keeping a five-generation puff-pastry recipe with no preservatives or additives. Broadsheet reports up to roughly 3,600 diamond-shaped pastizzi baked daily by a team of twelve with Maltese heritage; the online shop lists 26 pastizzi flavours (ricotta and curried pea remain the traditional staples), plus qassatat, ravioli made once or twice weekly, sweets, and pantry lines, with frozen trays supplied to stockists across greater Melbourne. Google Maps lists the Sunshine North pastry shop as operational with published weekday and Saturday hours; a bright-red shopfront and reunion point for Melbourne's Maltese diaspora.