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the beggining: miami roots
What started as dinner parties in my Miami home became something much more meaningful. Creating moments where my friends and I could create long-lasting memories and continue to harness our relationship over shared plates and stories. I cooked to make the people I loved feel cared for—stirring pots of sauce while conversations drifted from work to dreams to the little details of everyday life.
Those monthly dinner parties were never about perfection. They were about the feeling in the room: the shared plates, the easy laughter, the sense that, for a few hours, there was nowhere else we needed to be. Those nights taught me that food isn’t just about what’s on the plate—it’s about how you feel when you’re there.
The Florence Chapter (2022–2025)
My first trip to Italy changed everything. I fell in love with the way meals unfolded slowly, how recipes carried stories, and how a simple bowl of pasta could feel like an invitation to belong. Back home, I taught myself Italian cooking through well-worn cookbooks, late nights in the kitchen, and a lot of flour on the counter.
In May 2022, I took a leap of faith and moved to Florence. Those intimate Miami gatherings became Piccola Cucina: an intimate supper club and pasta-making experience inside a historic palazzo. Travelers from around the world stepped through our doors to roll out sfoglia, shape ravioli, and sit down at a long candlelit table.
They came to learn how to make pasta, but what they remembered most was how it felt to be welcomed into a friend’s home in a foreign city—to be seen, to be hosted, to be part of something that felt both special and deeply human.
Those years in Florence taught me that authentic Italian cooking isn’t just about technique. It’s about understanding the soul of a place and its people, honoring ingredients, and creating moments where time seems to slow down.
When I made the decision to close our palazzo doors, it wasn’t an ending. It was a doorway into a new chapter—one that would bring everything I’d learned in Italy back to a place that now feels like home.
The Heart Finds Home: Camden, Maine
After years in Florence, my heart was ready for a slower, more grounded rhythm. I found it in Camden, Maine—a coastal town where fishing boats move through the harbor at sunrise, seasons mark the rhythm of daily life, and people still gather around good food and simple pleasures.
Bringing Piccola Cucina to Camden meant reimagining what our experiences could look like in a new landscape. Instead of travelers passing through for a single evening, I began cooking for neighbors, friends, and visitors who return season after season. The ingredients shifted—from Tuscan markets to Maine farms and coastal waters—but the intention stayed the same.
Here, Piccola Cucina is less about a single room and more about a way of hosting:
a pot of sauce simmering on the stove, a table set with care, a guest who feels instantly at home.
In this chapter, Piccola Cucina is a place where Italian-inspired comfort meets the quiet beauty of coastal Maine—a space where people feel welcomed, nourished, and seen.
From a tiny Miami kitchen to a Florence palazzo and now a cozy corner of coastal Maine, Piccola Cucina is a neighborhood kitchen and creative studio where food, story, and connection come together—around the table, in your own home, and inside the brands we help bring to life.
Today, Piccola Cucina lives inside a small but mighty space in Camden, Maine, offering prepared meals with Cucina A Casa, cooking classes, supper club, kitchenware and gourmet food shop, private celebrations, and brand design and concept development for hospitality concepts.
Whether you discover us through a meal, a class, a dinner party, or a branding project, Piccola Cucina is always about the same thing: simple, beautiful experiences that make people feel at ease, cared for, and inspired.
Piccola Cucina is where Italian-inspired comfort finds its home in Camden, Maine.
Italian-Inspired, Maine-Rooted
Our menus are guided by Italian tradition and shaped by what’s in season in Maine: fresh pasta, slow-simmered sauces, and simple, elegant dishes that let beautiful ingredients shine.
Beyond just cooking
Piccola Cucina is about more than recipes. It’s about how a shared meal softens the week, tells a story, and reminds you why gathering around the table matters.
our camden kitchen
Our Camden space is intentionally intimate—warm light, thoughtful details, and a working kitchen that feels like home, whether you’re here for a class, Supper Club, or a small celebration.
Creative director turned culinary host Angie Niebles has always moved between mediums—design, story, and the language of the table.
Piccola Cucina began as a series of monthly dinner parties in her Miami apartment, where friends crowded around a small table and stayed late into the night over second helpings of food. Those gatherings slowly reshaped her life, turning a personal ritual into a calling: to create spaces where people could feel deeply cared for through food and hospitality.
Inspired by her first trip to Italy, Angie taught herself Italian cooking through dog-eared cookbooks, recipe notes in the margins, and countless evenings spent experimenting in the kitchen. In 2022, she moved to Florence and opened Piccola Cucina inside a historic palazzo, welcoming travelers from around the world to learn how to make pasta and experience the warmth of being hosted like an old friend.
Today, Angie is based in Camden, Maine, where Piccola Cucina has evolved into a neighborhood kitchen offering prepared meals, hands-on classes, intimate dinner parties, and The Hospitality Atelier—a design studio for culinary and hospitality brands.
Across every expression of her work, the heart remains the same: creating simple, beautiful experiences that make people feel at ease, cared for, and inspired.
"My favorite part of the evening is when everyone is so comfortable that they are serving each other drinks and going to the kitchen to help themselves. This is really what I want people to get out of Piccola Cucina, to feel that they are at a friend’s house having a whimsical dinner party."
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