The words ‘Naples’ and ‘Pizza’ are inexorably tied together with the city’s pizza rating among the best in the world. Accordingly, you’ll want to eat as much pizza as possible when you visit Naples whether you follow our detailed Naples pizza guide, book a street food tour or attend an interactive pizza-making workshop.
Whichever approach you decide to follow, be sure to eat the following two Naples pizza favorites:
1. Neapolitan Pizza
Neapolitan pizza is famous around the world and Naples’ most famous pie, the Margherita, has become the stuff of legend. Though many attribute the pie’s invention to Queen Margherita’s famous visit in 1889, locals may have been adding the tomato sauce, cheese and basil trio to their pies up to a century earlier.
You can eat this historic pie all over Italy and around the world. But, not surprisingly, the best Margherita pizzas are only available in Naples.
Pizza shops all over the city serve Margherita pizzas made with the same three toppings (fior di latte or buffalo mozzarella, tomatoes and basil) baked to a blistery brown in high temperature wood-fire ovens. They also serve cheese-free Marinara pies topped with tomatoes, garlic and oregano.
Most Naples pizzerias offer additional toppings and pie variations beyond the two standard bearers and some of these toppings, like buffalo ricotta, anchovy, sausage and fresh yellow piennolo tomatoes, are showstoppers. However, you should start your Naples food exploration by eating a Margherita pie and a Marinara pie. Everything after these two will be a bonus.
Where to Eat Neapolitan Pizza in Naples
Pizzeria Concettina Ai Tre Santi, Pizzeria da Attilio, 50 Kalo, L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele and Pizzaria La Notizia
