Serving all of Fairfield County, CT  Stamford, Easton, Greenwich, New Canaan, Darien, Danbury, Fairfield, Trumbull, Newtown,

Norwalk, Westport, Wilton, Ridgefield, Shelton, Stratford, Weston, Monroe.

And we ship just about anywhere in the United States

Picture of Orlando Mallozzi

This site is dedicated to my father Orlando "Lonnie" Mallozzi, and my grandfather Ernesto Rosario Mallozzi. My grandfather left Minturno Italy and came to the United States in the early 1900's. He joined the US Navy and became an American citizen. After his tour in the Navy my grandfather went to Stamford CT to visit relatives. While on his visit he met Olympia Marucco and she later became his wife. After making Stamford his new home he started a wholesale fruit and vegetable company which he sold to the local merchants and in 1919 he started Mallozzi's Market, a retail grocery store where he had a large fruit and vegetable section. He would buy fruit by the train cars at the New York Terminals. My grandfather was a very giving person and started bringing his best fruit to friends and relatives in the hospital where they were recovering from surgery or having a baby. He would put the fruit in a box and dress it up with ribbons. Other people would see him and ask him if he could make something for their family or friends and bring it to the hospital or they would pick it up in the store. It went on to include Holidays, Anniversaries, Birthdays, etc. As his family grew (to 9 children), the fruit being delivered to hospitals and offices and homes grew also. After my dad served in the US Army in the Korean War, he came back to work in the store and started making fruit baskets and wrapping them up fancy and adding candy. After my grandfather died, my dad took over the store and when my brother and I were born he changed the name of the store to Mallozzi and Sons Gift Baskets. As time went on my dad mastered the art of hand sowing fruit. He could build a basket of fruit and make it stand buy itself with no tape or what they use today a shrink wrap, an art which very few knew how to do. We lost dad on December 2, 2003 and he was the greatest man I have ever known. He was a kind loving man that touched so many people with his good will. He is truly missed. Before he died we were working on getting his products online but his health was not good and now his sons, grandsons and granddaughter will carry the torch for him. Our traditional series will be made in a way that dad would have approved of. Although we can't ship hand sown fruit, we have the highest quality Grade A extra fancy export in our fruit baskets. I hope you enjoy our baskets and to all our customers we thank you, for without you we wouldn't be here since 1919. Above is a picture of my dad with his baskets in the Stamford Advocate. Always smiling, always laughing, we love you Dad.

Reminders
*Orders received after 11 a.m. EST will ship out the next business day - changes or amendments to orders must be made by this time as well.
We do not ship to P.O. boxes.
We do not guarantee delivery to hospitals, hotels, or rural routes.
Cheesecakes must go 2 day or overnight and cannot ship over the weekend.
Cheesecakes to Alaska and Hawaii can only go overnight and all shipments to these states include a $10 surcharge.
We do not have the capability to put in special notes for FedEx for delivery. If you put in notes they will not be sent with the package.

Also Fruits may vary during different seasons

Thank you

Daniel Mallozzi Sr

P.O. Box 75   Monroe, CT  06468

203-395-8230

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