Bocce Upstairs, Pizza Downstairs: Coratti’s Brings the Party to Ann Arbor

“Pizza first, degree later.” That is what staff members at Coratti’s Pizzeria wear on the back of their staff t-shirts, summing up the fun and relaxed energy at the establishment.

A family-run business, Coratti’s Pizzeria is run by Peter Coratti and nephews Peter Pfeffer and Anthony Coratti. Other locations are in Howell and East Lansing (which is currently under renovation).

As you are sitting underneath the decorations in the main hall of the new establishment and tucking into their delicious Italian food, it is perfectly possible you might hear a dull “thud, thud, thud” coming from above you. But don’t be alarmed. It is going to because there’s a game of bocce happening above you.

If you walk up the staircase, past the bicycles suspended from the ceiling above the ground, you will find a mezzanine with rentable rooms. But in the largest room, which runs from William Street all the way to the windows facing the alley, you’ll find a rectangular piece of turf. Onto which, you can play a game of bocce ball.

The game is a fun diversion that sets the place apart from other restaurants. It is also fitting that pizza and Italian-American food is the focus of this two story building, which was an Ann Arbor institution for many years, as the original site of Cottage Inn Pizza…

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