About DeLallo
DeLallo traces back to George and Madeline DeLallo, who opened an Italian marketplace in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, a small industrial town outside Pittsburgh, building the business on imported and house-made Italian staples for the immigrant community around them. The company has stayed family owned and operated ever since, and in the 1980s it helped popularize the olive-and-antipasti bar format that later became a fixture of American grocery stores. Today DeLallo imports, produces, and distributes Italian and Mediterranean specialty foods from its home base in Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania, with a catalog that spans pasta, sauces, olive oil, charcuterie, and Italian desserts.
Within that dessert lineup sits DeLallo's instant espresso powder, sold as a set of three sealed 1.94 oz jars and marketed specifically for tiramisu rather than as a general all-purpose baking aid. On Clara Bennett's cupping and baking table for Brew Gazette's 2026 instant espresso testing, that framing held up: the powder is milled fine enough to dissolve cleanly into a cooled soak at the heavy dose tiramisu requires, where a coarser granule leaves visible grit at the bottom of the dish. It carries Kosher, vegan, and non-GMO certification, a broader set than any other Italian-style powder in the category we tested.
Brand website: delallo.com
What DeLallo makes
DeLallo's range runs wider than the products we review. The lines we know best from our own testing are marked with a star:
Instant Espresso Powder (3-jar pack)
soluble instant espresso powder built for tiramisu and heavy coffee soaks -- the product we tested — featured on Brew Gazette
Pasta
artisan and semolina pasta, whole wheat and gluten-free lines, lasagna, gnocchi, and tortellini
Sauces & Tomatoes
pasta sauces, pesto, and San Marzano and other Italian tomato products
Olive Oil & Vinegars
extra virgin olive oil, infused oils, and Italian vinegars
Olives, Peppers & Antipasti
jarred olives, roasted and pickled peppers, and charcuterie boards and spreads
Italian Desserts
ladyfingers, tiramisu kits, biscotti, and pizzelle sold alongside the espresso powder
Why we recognized DeLallo
The Brew Gazette Top Brand recognition isn't paid for and can't be applied for. We award it to the brands whose products consistently stand out in our hands-on category reviews. DeLallo earned it on the strength of the products below, evaluated the same way every product on this site is: bought, brewed with daily, and judged on what lands in the cup.
DeLallo products we rated highly
DeLallo Instant Espresso Powder, 1.94 oz Jar (3 Pack)
DeLallo markets this powder explicitly for tiramisu rather than for generic baking, and in our testing the formulation matched the claim: it is ground fine enough to dissolve into a cooled liquid without leaving the gritty sediment a coarser granule deposits at the bottom of a soaking dish. Tiramisu calls for a far heavier dose of coffee than a brownie does, and this was one of the few powders in our roundup that stayed clean at that concentration instead of turning muddy. It carries Kosher, vegan, and non-GMO certification, a broader combination than any other Italian-style powder we tested, and it ships as three individually sealed jars, which keeps two jars factory-fresh while the third is in use -- a real advantage for an ingredient many households only reach for a few times a year.
Read the Best Instant Espresso Powder of 2026 guide →What earned DeLallo the recognition
- In Brew Gazette's 2026 instant espresso powder testing, DeLallo's tiramisu-formulated powder was one of the few products in the category that stayed clean and non-gritty at the heavy dose tiramisu requires, rather than turning muddy the way coarser granules do.
- Carries Kosher, vegan, and non-GMO certification together on one product, a broader combination than any other Italian-style espresso powder in our roundup.
- Sold as three individually sealed 1.94 oz jars rather than one large container, which keeps unopened jars fresh longer for an ingredient many home cooks use only occasionally -- a meaningful detail since soluble coffee stales quickly once opened.
- A family-owned Italian specialty importer and producer based in Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania, with roots in an Italian marketplace George and Madeline DeLallo opened in Jeannette, PA, and a catalog built around naming true origin and method of production on every product.
- Purpose-built for a specific, demanding use case -- tiramisu -- rather than marketed as a generic all-purpose baking powder, and our own cupping table backed that positioning up.