Canzona's Market Anchors Piermont's South End With Italian Deli Staples

There's a certain kind of shop that a walkable village either has or desperately wishes it did — the one where you can grab a sandwich at noon and pick up something worth eating for dinner on the way home. Canzona's Market, at 254 Piermont Ave, is that place for the south end of Piermont's main strip.

The shop sits in a village that already draws visitors for its waterfront and its restaurant row, but Canzona's is oriented toward the people who actually live here. The shelves run to imported Italian pantry staples — the kind of olive oils, pastas, and preserved goods that are harder to find in the bigger grocery stores a few towns inland. That alone would make it worth a stop, but the prepared foods are what keep regulars coming back on a daily basis.

Fresh-made sandwiches and dinners-to-go round out the offer. For anyone in or around Piermont who has had the 6 p.m. realization that cooking is not happening tonight, having a proper Italian deli within walking distance changes the math considerably. The dinners-to-go category is doing real work here — it's not a heat-lamp situation, it's a market that happens to also solve the weeknight dinner problem.

This is a shop that works well for Piermont locals and for anyone coming through from neighboring Sparkill or Tappan who wants something more considered than a drive-through. It's also a reasonable detour if you're walking the waterfront and realize you want to put together a proper picnic spread rather than eating at a sit-down spot.

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