Best pizza in Naples, Italy: the famous queues, the critics' picks and the pizzerias that take bookings, ranked by how many English and Italian publishers name them

💡 The Short Version: The pizzerias named by the most of the 134 publishers counted are 50 Kalò (51 sources), Gino Sorbillo (50), Da Michele (46), Concettina ai Tre Santi (43), Starita (41), La Notizia (40), Di Matteo (38) and Palazzo Petrucci Pizzeria (35). Da Michele and Sorbillo take no bookings, and Sorbillo and Di Matteo are closed on Sundays. The critics disagree with the crowd: Da Michele and Sorbillo are not in the top 100 of 50 Top Pizza Italia 2026, where Palazzo Petrucci is 3rd and 50 Kalò 5th, and both of those take bookings at one room or another. A margherita is €6.50 at Da Michele. Or book a class: the Naples Official Pizza Making Class & Tiramisuad is from €29 for 3 hours.

📊 The evidence behind this guide. Nothing here is ranked on one visit. This pass read 842 list pages, and counts the 129 pages from 81 English-language publishers and the 197 pages from 53 Italian publishers: newspapers, magazines, guidebooks, broadcasters and travel writers, among them Time Out, the BBC, Condé Nast Traveller, Lonely Planet and Atlas Obscura in English, and Gambero Rosso, 50 Top Pizza, Corriere della Sera, La Cucina Italiana, Fanpage, NapoliToday and Scatti di Gusto in Italian. Naples-only sites without a named newsroom, tour operators, directories and the pizzerias’ own sites are not counted. Counts are publishers, not pages, and the English and Italian counts are shown apart. How the guides are made

⚠️ Check the day. Sorbillo and Di Matteo are closed on Sundays, Starita, La Notizia and Brandi on Mondays and Port’Alba on Tuesdays. Da Michele, 50 Kalò and Concettina open every day.

The pizzerias named by the most sources

The count is the number of publishers that name the pizzeria on a list of Naples pizza, with the split between the English and Italian publishers. A pizzeria named by fewer than 10 is left out. The Sorbillo row counts the Via dei Tribunali and Piazza Vanvitelli rooms, and the Palazzo Petrucci row counts the restaurant as well as the pizzeria.

The English lists lean towards Sorbillo (33 English publishers, 17 Italian), Da Michele (31 and 15) and Brandi (13 and 1). The Italian lists lean towards La Notizia (15 and 25), Palazzo Petrucci (16 and 19), Salvo (9 and 19), Diego Vitagliano (5 and 15) and Raf Bonetta (2 and 12). Carmnella and Pizzeria Gorizia 1916 are named by 13 and 12 Italian publishers and by no English one. A place named only in Italian is where the Italian food press and the awards are looking; a place named only in English is where visitors go.

The critics and the crowd

The two groups name different pizzerias, and the figures show it.

• 50 Top Pizza Italia 2026 ranks the top 100 of 472 pizzerias, announced at the Teatro Manzoni in Milan. Confine, in Milan, is first. In the world list, 50 Top Pizza World 2026, announced at the Teatro Mercadante in Naples, a London pizzeria, Napoli on the Road, is first, and Naples has six of the 100: Palazzo Petrucci Pizzeria 12th, 50 Kalò 14th, La Notizia 43rd, Bro. 65th, Salvo 66th and Raf Bonetta 68th.
• Gambero Rosso’s Pizzerie d’Italia 2026, presented on 22 and 23 September 2025, gave Tre Spicchi, 90 points of 100 or more, to 100 pizzerias in Italy. Its Naples names are Diego Vitagliano, 50 Kalò, La Notizia, Concettina, Starita, Da Attilio, Bro. and Isabella De Cham Pizza Fritta.
• Michelin lists eight Naples pizzerias as Selected, with no stars: Palazzo Petrucci Pizzeria, Da Michele, Concettina, 50 Kalò, Sorbillo, La Notizia 53, Salvo and 3.0 Ciro Cascella.

The eight most named

50 Kalò

Piazza Sannazaro 201/b, Mergellina · daily 12:00 to 16:30 and 18:30 to 00:30 · no bookings here · Cited by 51 sources (27 English, 24 Italian) · 50kalo.it

Ciro Salvo’s pizzeria, 5th in 50 Top Pizza Italia 2026 and 14th in the world list, Selected by Michelin, and the 2019 winner of the Best AVPN Pizzeria award from the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana, which is a body of pizzerias that sets the standard for a “true” Neapolitan pizza. The operator describes a very wet dough, for lightness, and adds the olive oil on the plate after baking. Its page says reservations are not accepted at Piazza Sannazaro. The second room, at Piazza della Repubblica 2, takes bookings, is open daily 12:30 to 16:00 and 19:30 to 00:30 and seats about 70 under tufa vaults, opposite the American consulate; the phone is 081 213 3376.

Gino Sorbillo

Via dei Tribunali 32 · daily 12:00 to 23:30, closed Sunday · no bookings · Cited by 50 sources (33 English, 17 Italian) · sorbillo.it

Gino took over the family pizzeria on the Via dei Tribunali in the 1990s, after working beside his aunt Esterina. The operator’s page says reservations are not accepted and any request is rejected. A second room is at Piazza Vanvitelli 9 in the Vomero, with the same hours. For fried pizza, the family’s Antica Pizza Fritta da Zia Esterina Sorbillo counter is at Via dei Tribunali 35, and there are two more in the city.

The front of Gino Sorbillo’s pizzeria on Via dei Tribunali. Photo: Mister No, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.

L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele

Via Cesare Sersale 1, Forcella · daily 11:00 to 23:00 · no bookings · Cited by 46 sources (31 English, 15 Italian) · damichele.net

The Condurro family says it began in 1870, opened its first pizzeria in 1906 and moved to the current premises in 1930. The menu has four pizzas, all €6.50: the margherita, the marinara, the cosacca, with pecorino and basil, and the marita, which is half margherita and half marinara. The cover is €1 and service is free. The operator’s page says it does not accept reservations. Order the margherita or the marinara.

Concettina ai Tre Santi

Via Arena della Sanità 7 bis, Rione Sanità · Sunday to Thursday 10:30 to 23:30, Friday and Saturday 11:00 to 23:30 · books online or on WhatsApp · Cited by 43 sources (23 English, 20 Italian) · concettinaaitresanti.com

Ciro Oliva’s pizzeria in the Sanità district, Selected by Michelin and at Tre Spicchi in Gambero Rosso’s 2026 guide. The site has a “book a table” button and a WhatsApp booking link; the phone is 081 290 037. It is in the same district as the catacombs: see the Catacombs of Naples. The lists pair it with fried pizza and the frittatina, the fried pasta croquette.

Starita a Materdei

Via Materdei 27/28 · Tuesday to Sunday 12:00 to 15:30 and 19:00 to 23:30, closed Monday · phone 081 544 1485 · Cited by 41 sources (25 English, 16 Italian) · pizzeriestarita.it

Open since 1901, according to its own page. Gambero Rosso gives it Tre Spicchi, and 17 English and 11 Italian publishers name it for fried pizza.

La Notizia

Via Michelangelo da Caravaggio 53 and 94 · closed Monday; Tuesday to Sunday from 19:00 to 00:00, 00:30 on Friday and 01:00 on Saturday (Michelin) · books on its site · Cited by 40 sources (15 English, 25 Italian) · pizzarialanotizia.com

Enzo Coccia opened number 53 in 1994 with a dozen tables, and it now seats about 90. Number 94, opened in 2010, is the smarter room with a booking service. Both are at Tre Spicchi, and number 53 is Selected by Michelin. The Michelin page says the pizzeria is away from the tourist centre and that its menu has no “fritti”. Order the mpustarella, a five-grain roll with fillings, as well as a pizza. It won the AVPN’s Best Pizzeria award in 2014.

Antica Pizzeria Di Matteo

Via dei Tribunali 94 · Monday to Saturday 10:00 to 23:30, closed Sunday · phone 081 455 262 · Cited by 38 sources (22 English, 16 Italian) · anticapizzeriadimatteo.it

Opened on 20 June 1936 and in its fourth generation. The ground floor is a takeaway counter; upstairs, five rooms hold about 120 seats. The counter sells the pizza a portafoglio, the “wallet” pizza folded in four and eaten from paper in the street, and the operator says President Clinton ate one there during the G7 summit in July 1994. The Italian and English lists tie it to the portafoglio and the frittatina. It is next to San Gregorio Armeno: see San Gregorio Armeno.

Palazzo Petrucci Pizzeria

Piazza San Domenico Maggiore · books on its site · Cited by 35 sources (16 English, 19 Italian) · palazzopetrucci.it

The pizzeria opened on 16 April 2014 on the piazza, with outdoor tables under the obelisk and a terrace. Davide Ruotolo is the pizzaiolo, and the toppings are by Lino Scarallo, the chef of the Palazzo Petrucci restaurant. It is 3rd in 50 Top Pizza Italia 2026, 12th in the world list and Selected by Michelin. The pizzeria says it is one of the few in Naples that take bookings. The margherita is €8. Try the Domenica, with ragù, provola, fried meatballs and friarielli, the bitter greens.

More pizzerias

The next tier, with the facts from each pizzeria’s own page.

Outside the city

Two pizzerias are named so often that visitors take them for Naples. I Masanielli, in Caserta, is named by 33 publishers (9 English, 24 Italian) and is joint second in 50 Top Pizza Italia 2026. Pepe in Grani, in Caiazzo in the Caserta province, is named by 28 (9 and 19) and is joint first with I Tigli in Gambero Rosso’s 2026 guide. Both are a trip out, not a Naples pizza. Raf Bonetta, 26th in 50 Top Pizza Italia, is in Pozzuoli, in the Campi Flegrei, and is in the table above.

What a margherita costs

Prices from the pizzerias’ own menus.

A margherita in Naples, with a puffed, charred edge. Photo: Kos88, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The queue

• No bookings: Da Michele, Sorbillo and 50 Kalò at Piazza Sannazaro.
• Bookings: Palazzo Petrucci Pizzeria, Concettina ai Tre Santi, La Notizia, Salvo, Port’Alba, Trianon and the 50 Kalò room on Piazza della Repubblica.
• The way round a queue: arrive when the doors open, at 11:00 at Da Michele and 12:00 at Sorbillo and 50 Kalò, or book one of the rooms that take bookings.
• On Reddit, 29 threads on r/napoli and r/ItalyTravel name Sorbillo (33 users), Da Michele (32) and Starita (30) most, then Pellone, near the station, with 18, Di Matteo with 14 and 50 Kalò with 13. Pellone is named by 3 English and 7 Italian publishers.

A class or a tour

A pizza class is the way to see the dough made. GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices are per person:

Naples food tours compares the street-food walks and the classes, and Naples street food and pastries covers the fried pizza and the pastries.

Plan the rest

Where to eat in Naples lists the other restaurants the sources name, and Naples street food and pastries the fried pizza, the cuoppo, the sfogliatella and the babà. Di Matteo and Sorbillo are on the Via dei Tribunali, a few minutes from the Spaccanapoli walk and the Cappella Sansevero. Concettina is beside the Catacombs of Naples. 3 days in Naples fits the meals to the days, and where to stay in Naples compares the areas. What to book in Naples lists the closed days. For other cities, see where to eat in Rome.