Our story
The making of a speciality
È il 1997 quando due pasticceri innamorati del proprio lavoro decidono di scommettere su un sogno: aprire un laboratorio tutto loro, dedicandosi anima e corpo a ciò che amano di più, la pasticceria artigianale siciliana.
Quei due pasticceri sono Lucio Pappalardo e sua madre, cuore e cervello della SP&F, piccolo laboratorio dolciario artigianale situato nella zona di Aci Catena, in provincia di Catania. Una coppia che ben presto diventa un trio, grazie all’entrata in azienda di Sabrina, moglie di Lucio e colonna portante della Siculabriosce.
Their first orders?
Making artisanal brioches for local street vendors and ice-cream parlours. After several years of success, they decided to make the big leap and expand their business beyond Sicily.
Innovation
It may be a small step from local to national, but it's also hard work.
The first goal was to find a packaging method that could keep the shelf-life of each individual brioche intact, without them deteriorating on the way.
An issue that was brilliantly solved with the invention of special stay-fresh capsules. It was a game-changing stroke of genius.
Adesso, infatti, serve più mano d’opera, ma soprattutto spazio. Si passa così dagli appena 300 mq dello storico laboratorio di Aci Catena, agli oltre 1.000 mq del nuovo stabilimento della vicina Aci Platani, culla del nuovissimo Siculabriosce, brand che da oggi riunisce tutte le deliziose bontà sfornate quotidianamente dalla SP&F.
There are certain special places that will always have a place in our hearts. For us, that place is our factory. An intimate space in which every action takes on a unique importance and sweetness.
Our factory
Home sweet home
Ours is no ordinary factory. For the last 20 years it has been home to the Siculabrioche ‘family’. A huge artisanal pastry-making space, where every day around 700kg of raw materials are processed and turned into over a million and a half exquisite, fragrant brioches, packaged and shipped every year throughout Italy, Europe, America and Australia.
Our factory in numbers
of space in our new Aci Platani factory.
of raw materials processed daily.
exquisite brioches made and shipped every day.
Brioche “co' Tuppu”
Tasty by tradition
Our journey through history, a story rich in flavors that has its main theme in craftsmanship and respect for raw materials.
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