Naples Restaurants

Located right along Corso Umberto, about six blocks from the train station, Pizzeria Van Bool offers authentic Italian style pizza at local prices. I had a spicy salami pizza for only four euro and the pizza was big enough that I couldn't quite finish it. The only warning I would give about this place is that they charge 3 euro for a can of soda.

Look for the line outside at lunchtime - the locals queue up for the pizzas which are made in a wood-burning pizza oven and are produced at lightening speed. There are tables inside with a more extensive menu. Slightly olde-worlde but good food and apart from us foreignors, everyone else was a local i.e. business man, shop attendants and so on.

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Naples is the home of Pizza and you can not visit without eating pizza in Naples.
some like the one we went to had a counter outside were people could buy pizza to go or other snacks like calzone and even deep fried Pizza.

If you google Trianon or da Michele, you will find websites debating which restaurant serves the best pizza in the world. I believe Trianon is better. They are both located on the same street, off Via Umberto and Via Pietro Colleta. We went to Trianon twice, and tried at least 8 different pizzas on their menu (hey, there was five of us!). Enjoy!

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There are one seafodd restaurant near with Archeological Museum in Naples. This restaurant located just in front of the museum. Easy to find it. Once you in city near with sea, dont forget to try the seafood. My fav food (when I travel) is Spaghetti All Scoglio .. or spaghetti with clams. Some restaurant, they also served with prawns! This restaurant provide a very good spaghetti, with fresh seafood. There another restaurant also serve a good seafood, but in Venice. This spaghetti cost you only 14.00 euro, and DONT order any 2nd meal! For italia, spaghetti only for 1st coast, and pizza is 2nd coast. But, with this spaghetti, you dont have to order 2nd food.It is enough! And this restaurant provide you typical Italian restaurant! The waiter are very polite and humble, and they can speak English! Parla Inglese ...

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This historic Art Nouveau café was once the favourite haunt of writers and artists. It’s now an obvious tourist destination, but when we visited, on a sunny November Sunday afternoon, seemed also to have attracted a fair number of young trendy locals. We sat outside to make the most of what was likely to be our last opportunity to do so before returning to an English winter, but wherever you sit the interior has to be seen. It’s a riot of Art Nouveau décor and very stylish, in an old European way.

Favorite Dish: I enjoyed a coppa of ice cream (pistachio and coffee flavours) and Chris a cup of dark, rich hot chocolate. We paid €11 – as in similar places all over the world, we were clearly paying for the location, but it was worth it as a one-off experience. Incidentally the toilets are equally stylish so take advantage of your break here to make use of them!

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Arriving at our hotel quite late in the evening on our first day in Naples we were looking for somewhere quick and unfussy in which to eat, and found it in Rossopomodoro, a small pizzeria in the Piazza Dante which we only later realised was part of a local chain. The décor here is fairly traditional trattoria style, with solid wooden furniture and tiled floor – I was taken though by the effectiveness of the pictures on the wall which on examination proved to be a series of labels from tins of the red tomatoes that give the restaurant its name!

Favorite Dish: There was a long menu, helpfully in English, from which we both opted for pizza as we could see (and smell) them being cooked in a large pizza oven at one end of the restaurant. I chose a tasty Purchianese, with tomatoes, pancetta, ricotta, mozzarella and basil; Chris went for the Fiaschetto with prosciutto, olives, artichoke hearts, mushrooms and mozzarella. With a large (0.4 L) and a small (0.2 L) draft beer we paid just €24.50, which I thought was good value.

We’d spotted this restaurant the previous evening and thought it looked warm and welcoming, and maybe a little smarter than others in the square, so it seemed an easy choice for our Saturday evening in Naples. Big mistake! Inside it seemed quite bland and uninteresting in its décor, and the waiter seemed fairly uninterested in us, despite having only a few other customers. The food was OK, but rather dull and lacked colour. The “mixed salad”, which consisted only of lettuce (mainly tasteless iceberg) poorly dressed, was a particular disappointment in a country which usually does such things so well.

Altogether we paid €33 for two starters (prosciutto & parmesan for me, spaghetti frittata for Chris) and two mains (fried prawns and calamari for me, probably the best of our dishes overall, and veal in lemon sauce for Chris, with no accompaniments apart from the aforementioned salad), plus a small beer and a glass & a half of house red. We also had an unasked for (but welcome) bottle of mineral water which was the only sign of the inevitable “covers” and were charged 12% for the somewhat half-hearted service. When offered dessert we declined and headed instead for our favourite bar (see Nightlife) for coffee and cakes.