About Anna’s

The Liguria family has been serving authentic Italian food in Williamsburg, Virginia since 1974!

Anna Liguria remembers growing up in the small town of Carini in Sicily; she would rush home after school to see if the bread had finished baking in her mother’s brick oven. She was reminded to be patient, the bread was “still sleeping”, her mother would say, under a towel waiting to rise. To quell her impatience her mother would throw a piece of the dough right onto the hot stone hearth and pull it out when baked, smothering it with olive oil, salt and pepper, a recipe called “faccia divechia” or, “face of an old Lady”. The brick oven is a very authentic way of cooking a number of Italian dishes, including pizza, “old world style”.