Where do we eat the best pizza in Naples?

I knew right from the very beginning that we would be eating a lot of pizza in Naples, but I had no idea that a simple slice of pizza – dough, tomatoes, mozzarella and olive oil – could bring me so much joy. Pizza napoletana isn’t just a pizza, don’t let the name fool you, it’s a little slice of heaven, and authentic pizzerias in Naples are little havens for both body and soul. Besides, in Naples you don’t eat pizza, you enjoy it. You let yourself be carried away by the smell of fresh basil and pampered by the taste of San Marzano tomatoes, tomatoes grown at the foot of the Vesuvius volcano. Pizza napoletana is not food…it’s art! Now I will show where you can eat the best pizza in Naples

I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that you must try pizza napoletana in Naples, because it goes without saying. Anyway, the first thing you will read about Naples will refer to pizza napoletana and Naples as the place where pizza was born…real pizza.

Tripadvisor is full of restaurants and pizzerias, but there’s one place that stands above the rest, that has gone on from generation to generation, and where you’ll have an authentic Neapolitan experience. L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele is the place loved by tourists and locals, it’s a true temple, a holy place.

There may be even better pizza, but we haven’t experienced many locations. The first thing we did when we arrived in Naples was go to L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele. We had a great time there, the pizza was sensational and we really didn’t want anything else. But don’t think we didn’t have a comparison, in fact we went to another pizzeria and the experience was quite unsatisfactory (good pizza, bad service, higher prices).

A bit of the pizzeria’s history

L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele has physically been around since forever. More precisely since 1870, when Michele Condurro, after decades of courses, research and improvement, opened his own pizzeria with his family. The Condurro family traditions have been faithfully preserved by the fifth generation, and the pizzeria has been in the same location since 1930.

Physically speaking, there’s nothing fancy or fancy about the pizzeria, it’s a place where you go for a quick pizza fresh out of the oven, pay and leave happy. The menu is modest because the great Condurro was of the opinion that there are only two types of pizza – margherita and marinara – and that the perfect pizza should have a thin, light dough, tomato juice, mozzarella and a few basil leaves.

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Eat Pray Love

The movie Eat Pray Love is responsible for the hordes of tourists and the endless queues you have to stand in if you visit Naples in high season. The author of the book, conveys even more emotion than the mere seconds-long scene in the film, saying these words about pizza at da Michele: “I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with the pizza, almost an affair.”

The best pizza in the world!

Like I said, after you stand in line (we didn’t stand too long, and when it was crowded, we simply got pizza to go), walk in, sit down at a table (try to sit at a table in the main room to enjoy the smell of pizza and get a live demonstration), order one of the 4 types of pizza, wait 10-15 minutes, during which time you wander your eyes to either the oven where the pizza is baked or the family photo boards. Then you enjoy your pizza, pay and leave.

A pizza over the edge of the plate costs €5, coperto is €0.5, and a juice or water costs €2-2.5.