Where we would eat
Neapolitan pizza, trattorias, seafood, bistros, cocktails and tables for a special evening. We have organised the restaurants by area, cuisine and price range because the right place depends on the moment of the day and the kind of experience you are looking for.
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Pizza · Piazza della Repubblica
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High-hydration dough, a short bake, a tall and light crust. It is one of the pizzerias that pushed the very idea of Neapolitan pizza forward, and it is a few minutes from here.
lightbulbIt fills up early, and it is not the place for a long dinner: you eat well and you leave.
Pizza · Chiaia
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A contemporary interior and quick service, with the pizza made as it should be. It is the right place when there are many of you, or when you are hungry and short on patience.
lightbulbNoisy at peak hours: if you want a quiet dinner, go early.
Pizza · Toledo
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No research, no revolution: Neapolitan pizza as it has always been made, on one of the liveliest streets in the city.
lightbulbVery handy if you are heading home from the historic centre.
Pizza · Vomero
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Long-established, unpretentious and filled with the people who live up there. It is the kind of place that lasts in Naples because it works, not because it makes noise.
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Pizza · Vomero
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Ristorante Pizzeria Gorizia 1916
Opened in 1916 and still there, with its large dining hall and the service of another era. It does pizza and Neapolitan cooking, and it has watched four generations of the Vomero go past.
lightbulbA place for a slow Sunday lunch, rather than a quick dinner.
Pizza · Chiaia
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The trattoria-pizzeria that settles the evening when one of you wants pizza and the other does not. Not far from us, and with the prices of another time.
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Neapolitan · Chiaia
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Neapolitan cooking served in a carefully kept interior, two steps from home. Six thousand reviews and a high average: that is no accident, and it is one of the places we send our guests to most often.
lightbulbBook: it is very close, but for exactly that reason everyone knows it.
Neapolitan · City centre
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Small, family-run, with the kitchen you can hear from the dining space. It is the place where you end up talking to whoever is serving you, and where the bill surprises you the right way.
lightbulbFew tables. Without booking, you will almost certainly stay outside.
Neapolitan · Chiaia
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Narrow tables, plain cloths and traditional dishes made properly. It stands in the elegant quarter but has not taken on its prices.
lightbulbThe kind of place worth trying on the first evening, to understand where you are.
Neapolitan · Chiaia
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Neapolitan recipes served without being reread, in a sober interior. If it is your first time in Naples and you want to understand what the real cooking is like, you begin here.
lightbulbDo not expect magazine plating: expect serious portions.
Neapolitan · Seafront
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Wide interiors, a very long menu, a view over the sea and Castel dell'Ovo. Eleven thousand reviews say half the city goes there, tourists included.
lightbulbConvenient, reliable and always open. It is not the most intimate dinner of your life.
Neapolitan · Chiaia
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A small dining space lined with tiles, where they cook dishes many restaurants no longer have. It is one of the most distinctive places in the area.
lightbulbFew covers and an atmosphere from another age: you go for the whole of it, not only to eat.
Neapolitan · Santa Lucia
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Plain cooking two steps from Castel dell'Ovo, where you eat whatever there is that day.
lightbulbTo pair with the walk along the seafront, before or after.
Neapolitan · Santa Brigida
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Informal and thoroughly central, between the Galleria Umberto and via Toledo. It settles lunch in the middle of a day in the centre without taking your afternoon away.
lightbulbMore a stop than an evening: you are in one of the busiest parts of the city.
Neapolitan · Bagnoli
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Small, welcoming, with the pasta rolled in the house. It is on the opposite side of the city, and it is the kind of place people return to after going once.
lightbulbIt makes sense within a day towards Bagnoli or the Città della Scienza, not as an isolated stop.
Fish · Historic centre
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Fifteen thousand reviews and an average that does not fall: it is one of the best-known fish addresses in Naples, and its mussel soup is a small institution of the city.
lightbulbVery busy. Go with the idea of waiting a while, and you will not regret it.
Fish · Posillipo
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On the Posillipo coast, with a view that is worth the journey as much as the plate is. It is the place for the evening when you want dinner to be the event of the day.
lightbulbAsk for a table outside when you book: inside is another thing entirely.
Fish · Marechiaro
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It stands exactly where the song says it stands, on the rocks of Marechiaro. You eat fish with the water a few metres away and Capri on the horizon.
lightbulbThe way down is steep and the way back up more so: think first about how you will get back.
Fish · Marechiaro
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Informal in manner and serious in the kitchen, open since 1942 in the hamlet of Marechiaro. One of those places Neapolitans keep for the occasions that matter.
lightbulbAt sunset it is full, and the sunset is half the reason for going.
Fish · Bacoli
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You eat with your feet almost in the water, on the shore of the Campi Flegrei. The atmosphere counts as much as the menu, and in summer it comes into its own.
lightbulbIt is out of town: it makes sense inside a day in the Campi Flegrei, not as an ordinary dinner.
Meat · Posillipo
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In a city that talks mostly about fish and pizza, it is the address for anyone who wants meat cooked as it should be, in an elegant interior.
lightbulbThe right choice when you have already eaten fish two evenings running.
Meat · Vomero
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Up on the Vomero, with a selection of wines that goes beyond the usual and a kitchen that accompanies it instead of chasing it.
lightbulbTo put at the end of an afternoon at Sant'Elmo or the charterhouse.
For an occasion · Seafront
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Dishes built with care, a small dining space, a well-prepared service. It is among the most appreciated addresses in the area and one of those we name when people ask us for «somewhere special».
lightbulbFew covers and a great deal of demand: you book in advance, not the same evening.
For an occasion · Santa Lucia
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A terrace on the top floor of a historic hotel, with Vesuvius on one side and Castel dell'Ovo on the other. You go for the view, and the kitchen holds it up.
lightbulbThe most expensive dinner on this list, and the only one where the panorama is worth the bill.
For an occasion · Chiaia
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A refined interior and formal service, with the terrace looking out over the gulf. It is the place for the occasions that deserve to be celebrated properly.
lightbulbHere what you wear counts: it is the only address on the list where we say so.
For an occasion · Santa Lucia
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A terrace looking over the fishermen's borough and the castle, with cooking of a classical bent.
lightbulbOpinions online swing more here than elsewhere: you go mainly for the view.
For an occasion · Vomero
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A large dining hall on the hill, much used for celebrations and group dinners, with Naples spread out below the windows.
lightbulbIt works better with a crowd than with two: keep it for the evening when there are many of you.
For an occasion · Chiaia
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For an occasion · Via Verdi, behind the San Carlo
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A bistro and cocktail bar on a quiet side street behind the Teatro San Carlo, with 4.8 on Google. You can go for dinner or just for a drink made properly.
lightbulbThe dining space is small. It is the right place for an evening for two, not for a long table.
For an occasion · Chiaia
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Neapolitan · Chiaia
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Bars and cafés · Plebiscito
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Mirrors, stucco and waiters in white jackets on the corner of the Plebiscito. This is where the caffè sospeso was born: you pay for two, you drink one, and the second stays paid for whoever comes in after you.
lightbulbAt the counter it costs a fraction of what it costs at a table, and at the counter you see a great deal more.
Bars and cafés · Seafront
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On the seafront, with the tables turned towards the water. It is the place for the pause before dinner, when the sun drops behind Posillipo.
lightbulbYou go for the right hour more than for the menu: aim at sunset.
Bars and cafés · Vomero
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A pub with a good selection of beers and a kitchen that holds up until late, in an area where people really do go out in the evening.
lightbulbWorth knowing: here you can still eat when almost everything else has closed.
Neapolitan · Pozzuoli
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On the Pozzuoli seafront, with the coming and going of the ferries for Ischia and Procida in front of you. Sea cooking without complications.
lightbulbIt makes sense on the day you leave for the islands, or come back from them.
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One of the freedoms of staying in Chiaia
From Follaky, many addresses in Chiaia, Santa Lucia and the monumental centre are within walking distance. For Posillipo, Vomero, Pozzuoli and the Campi Flegrei, use the guide to decide in advance whether public transport, a taxi or a car makes most sense.
location_on Of everything guests rate on Booking, location is what scores highest: 9.68 from 62 reviews.