Nana Rose's Italian Bakery Brings East Coast Flavor To Green Country

A local bakery is celebrating one year of bringing authentic Italian food to Green Country.

Samantha Short opened Nana Rose's Italian Bakery using many of her nonna’s recipes. She said everything she sells is authentic like you would find on the East Coast.

Some customer favorites are the lobster tail pastries, struffolis, and the cannolis with 18 different flavors to choose from.

Short said she was introduced to baking at a young age by her grandmother from Sicily. Before opening the bakery, she worked as a paramedic but took a break to grow her family.

Short said during that time she baked at home to keep busy, but it was a push from her mother that really sparked the idea for Nana Rose’s. "She was like I really think you should open a bakery and kind of change your career path and that was a big draw for me just because I was going to go on a fire department, I had it all planned out," Short continued saying, "So, I kind of just took a risk, put my life savings into it, and here we are."

She said the bakery has been a success and in the next few years hopes to expand into an Italian restaurant. Short said for her it is all about showing Green Country what authentic Italian food is.

"I am surprised at how big of an East Coast community we have of Italians and people who grew up in Philadelphia and Boston," she said, "There is a lot of nostalgia when they come in and they see stuff that they have not seen since they were little kids, or their grandma made it for them." 

Nana Rose’s is located at 8929 S. Memorial Dr. in Tulsa and is open Wednesday through Saturday 11 a.m. - 7 p.m., and Sundays 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.