Malta Joe is the BEST!!! I needed pastizzi for my middle school project, because I am Maltese and we had to pick a country, so l picked Malta of course! For my project, you have to make a poster and bring in a food from your country. So, I did some research and tried to find Maltese pastizzi because they are so hard to make. I landed upon Malta Joe's, but he is all the way across the country! So I gave him a call, and he was so excited about my project, and that l am Maltese, that he shipped them overnight for me, over 2300 miles away! Everything was packaged so well. He even sent me delicious Maltese almond cookies as a gift with it, stickers, and a very nice note. Thank you soooo much Malta Joe! I am going to put your stickers on my poster and I know everyone at school is going to LOVE the pastizzi! I tried some tonight with my Nannu and we both think they are amazing!!! Thank you so much for going out of your way to help me with my project! I will definitely be ordering from you again! Grazzi hafna! read more

The best place to buy the most delicious Maltese Pastizzi, period. Joe is the best. I will make another trip to Tucson, I will stop by Malta Joe's for a pack of ricotta pastizzis. read more

I order from California and always get my order in 48 hrs from order time. Pastizzis are so good and Malta Joe goes above and beyond. I come from a Maltese family and haven't had these in a long time because they're extremely tedious to make. Will always be recommending to my friends and family. Thank you Malta Joe!!! read more

So delicious! My friends and I decided to do a Malta cooking night. I stopped in the bakery and bought the variety pack. 100% recommend. I had the pleasure of meeting Joe. So friendly and the food is great. read more

Sad to say i did not like it. Except for the crust/breading that was delicious. I had 3 pastizzi. Split pea & curry. Corned beef & peas. And another i don't remember the 3rd. He threw in a complimentary one that wrapped a hot dog I did not like. I also ordered 2 dessert minitzzi. One blueberry and one nutella cream. The desserts were lacking in filling. There was a dab of filling and nothing more. But again the crust/breading was good. Then you get there and they tell you unless you want to buy a frozen dozen you must wait for an order of 3 and 2 desserts to be cooked. And the wait is 20 minutes. They do have a nice clean bathroom. I will not come back. read more

Got a bag of the variety pack and my oh my, so tasty. The pack has 3 of each: ricotta cheese, split pea and curry, SW, and tal pizzeli. Stick the frozen goodied in the oven for 30 minutes and all done. I ordered online and picked up at a beer place near my house. Joe the owner is super friendly. He offers some real tasty treats. read more

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That carrot cake ... Joe specializes in pre orders and he was super accommodating for ours. Delicious. Thanks Joe!

Seriously. Ever since the kind owner gave my husband and I free samples a few weeks ago , I've been CRAVING THEM!!!!!! Wow. Light, delicious, full of flavor and cooked perfectly! His pastry is flaky and golden brown. The concept of Malta Joe's is brilliant! The pastizzi's are easy to eat! You can literally feast on them while socializing or walking your dog. We each ate two and immediately wanted more. He offers 4 different flavors, all amazing! I am so excited this food truck has opened in Tucson! And we are really looking forward to buying more! Please support this food truck! You will thank me read more

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Coming from a family of Maltese immigrants, I grew up with Pastizzi. My parents passed away more than 15 years ago and had not had Maltese cuisine since then. When I heard of Malta Joe and his pastizzi, I had to find his bakery! Coming from Danville, Virginia, to Tucson, Arizona was over 1,700 miles. A pilgrimage of a sort! Well worthwhile, Joe was awesome, social, kind, and excellent at his craft. His pastizzi were just like my mother's. I highly recommend without hesitancy his bakery! read more

I had the opportunity to sample Malta Joe's Pastizzis when I was last at Dragoon Brewing Company. They have a food truck to offer up their delicious Maltese eats on the go! Like a lot of people I had no idea what a Pastizzi was when I saddled up to the Malta Joe's food truck. I must say I was pleasantly surprised. I had a Southwest Pastizzi. Filo dough wraps around a filling of bacon, hatch chilies and ricotta cheese for a full on flavor explosion. I also sampled the split pea and curry and it was also just a perfect balance of savory filling to crispy and delicious filo dough. I was so impressed that I looked them up and am happy to say you can purchase these at their store to bake at home! read more

Absolutely delicious! Malta Joe makes the best pastizzi my husband has had outside of Malta! And my husband knows his pastizzi. He's Maltese so he's had a lot of pastizzi over his lifetime. In fact, we recently visited Malta where we had the pleasure of eating pastizzi from lots of different places. (Our favorite was Crystal Palace). We were in Malta for about two weeks and I kid you not, my husband had pastizzi every single day, sometimes multiple times a day. Once we were back in the states, he kept craving pastizzi. He told me that growing up in Detroit, his aunt would make delicious pastizzi before she passed away. He said there were lots of places to get pastizzi in Detroit where you could buy them frozen and bake them at home and he wished we had that out here in Arizona. So I went online to see if I could find any local places that make pastizzi. That's where I came across some great reviews for Malta Joe's Baked Goods, so I thought I'd give him a try. I ordered two dozen pastizzi yesterday and picked them up today. As soon I returned home, my husband asked me to put several in the oven right away so that he could try them. He wasn't going to get his hopes high though because he said that the frozen ones he used to make in Detroit never tasted as good as the ones that were fresh from the bakery. But once I pulled these out of the oven, he took one bite and was really impressed! The crust was light and flaky, the flavors were rich and savory. He was genuinely delighted. Yay! I'm so glad we found Malta Joe's. I have a feeling I will be ordering from him on a regular basis! read more

These little pastizzis are the perfect bar snack! While hanging out at the Hop Shop a couple weeks ago I was able to try this food truck for the first time. Joe was walking around handing out menus and recognized my friend and immediately brought over a couple to try. They are a nice size and delicious bite to have while sipping beer and hanging out and Joe is so sweet! I tried the chorizo and bean pastizzi which is just that wrapped in a nice flaky pastry dough, yum! I'm so happy they are becoming a regular spot at THS. read more

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Had to try the pastizzis and wanted to see if it tasted like the ones I had in Mdina. It was close enough. I only tried the ricotta one but the dough reminds me of sfogliatella. Will try the savory ones when I see the food truck. read more

I recently had the opportunity to work with Joe on his company website and really enjoyed the experience. Joe's a true businessman that obviously cares about his company and his customers. His food is apparently pretty good too, so I'm gonna have to try some soon! If you're looking to support a local Tucson business and have a good experience doing it, I'd definitely recommend checking out Malta Joe! read more

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Their food truck doesn't actually make anything fresh. 5 of us ordered a sampler. We would've ordered so much more if it was good. You need to be suspicious of food that's ready immediately. What we got was old and dehydrated. I'm sure it was really good if it was freshly made, like food trucks are supposed to do. I would never spend another Penny there. Fancy truck, garbage food, they expect you to pay high end prices for. I'm at the beer house right now, and all the food is coming out as they order it. Too bad you haven't figured out if the food is fresh they'll order more. Most people will only order from you ONCE read more

What a unique food item! Pastizzi's are so unique and flakey. The flavor combinations of Malta Joe's is incredible. The curry flavor and southwest flavor have been my favorite. Pastizzi's are like an ultra flakey empanada. Savory flavor on the inside and wonderful piping hot. I purchase frozen Pastizzi's to bake at home but have also gotten them fresh from the truck. They make the rounds in the truck and I've seen them at farmers markets, hemisphere loop, and in front of breweries. read more

Malta Joe is the best place to eat in Tucson. Joe himself is marvellous too. He is the heir of a great culinary tradition formed at the crossroads of the cultures of Sicily and North Africa, an unknown treasure of the world's panorama of traditions. The pastizzi, the flagship item, are of course divine - savory pastry is always forgotten here. Yet even beyond... the gooey timpana, the signature Maltese baked lasagna and sold at streetside shops all over the nation? The ftira, the national sourdough bread of Malta, stuffed with tuna, tomato and olives or even just with the Gozitan gbejna, small goat cheese cakes riddled with cracked peppercorn and aged in the caves of Ghawdex, Malta's smaller northern island? The bigilla, the broad bean paste, the Maltese alternative to hummus, seasoned with marjoram or mint? The qahaq, amazing pastries full of slits to let their figgy guts spill out? Many larger metropolitan areas have no Maltese culinary reputation, but Tucson does to its enormous fortune. be sure to support such a great venture and try something new. you can catch Malta Joe at Rillito Park on Sunday mornings as well as in his bakery. read more

All of your items are just awesome. My husband really liked the Timpana that we got recently. Very easy to bake in our air fryer. Thanks for making sure we could get them in Mesa. read more