Naples street food and pastries: fried pizza, the wallet pizza, the cuoppo and frittatina, the sfogliatella and the babà, with hours and what to order

💡 The Short Version: The Neapolitan street food is pizza fritta, fried pizza (Sorbillo is named for it by 29 publishers and Starita by 28), the pizza a portafoglio, the wallet pizza folded in four, at Di Matteo (16), the cuoppo, a paper cone of fried morsels, and the frittatina, a fried pasta croquette. The pastries are the sfogliatella (Attanasio 24, Scaturchio 17, Pintauro 15) and the babà, a rum-soaked cake. The Zia Esterina Sorbillo fried-pizza counters open daily, Di Matteo is closed on Sundays, and Poppella’s Santa Brigida shop is closed on Mondays. Or book a tour: the Street Food Walking Tour with Local Guidead is from €42 for 2.5 hours.

📊 The evidence behind this guide. Nothing here is ranked on one visit. The counts come from the 842 list pages read for where to eat in Naples, from 81 English-language and 53 Italian publishers. A place counts for a dish when a publisher names it within a few lines of the dish, once per publisher, and the English and Italian figures are shown apart. How the guides are made

⚠️ Check the day. Di Matteo is closed on Sundays. Poppella’s Via Santa Brigida shop and Piazza Cavour shop are closed on Mondays.

Pizza fritta

Pizza fritta is a disc of pizza dough, folded or stuffed, and fried in oil. The pizzerias that bake pizza sell it too, so the lists name the same famous addresses for it:

Fried pizzas topped with tomato, mozzarella and basil. Photo: Ruthven, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

Antica Pizza Fritta da Zia Esterina Sorbillo

Piazza Trieste e Trento 53, daily 11:00 to 22:00 · Via dei Tribunali 35, daily 12:00 to 23:30 · Via Nilo 26, Monday 11:30 to 15:30 and Tuesday to Sunday 11:30 to 23:30 · Cited by 17 sources (5 English, 12 Italian) · sorbillo.it

Three counters run by the Sorbillo family, named after Gino Sorbillo’s aunt Esterina, who taught him to make dough. The Via dei Tribunali counter is at number 35, on the same street as Sorbillo’s pizzeria at number 32, which is closed on Sundays; the counter is open daily. The lists tie it to fried pizza, the wallet pizza and the cuoppo.

Masardona

Piazza Vittoria, and Case Nuove · Cited by 27 sources (11 English, 16 Italian) · masardona.it

A fried-pizza house named after Anna Manfredi, known as “a Masardona”, who began frying in 1945. Its own page describes the pizza as always golden, never greasy and very soft. Gambero Rosso’s 2026 guide gives it Tre Rotelle, its mark for pizza by the slice and takeaway.

Isabella De Cham Pizza Fritta

Cited by 20 sources (5 English, 15 Italian)

Named by 15 Italian publishers and 5 English ones, and new at Tre Spicchi in Gambero Rosso’s 2026 guide.

The wallet pizza

The pizza a portafoglio is a small pizza folded in four, eaten from paper while you walk.

Antica Pizzeria Di Matteo

Via dei Tribunali 94 · Monday to Saturday 10:00 to 23:30, closed Sunday · Cited by 16 sources for the wallet pizza (7 English, 9 Italian) · anticapizzeriadimatteo.it

The ground floor is a takeaway counter and the upstairs rooms are a pizzeria. The operator says President Clinton, walking through the historic centre during the G7 summit in July 1994, stopped at the counter and ate a wallet pizza with a Coca-Cola. The frittatina is the other order: 16 publishers name Di Matteo for it. See the best pizza in Naples for the full entry.

The cuoppo and the frittatina

A cuoppo is a paper cone of fried morsels, and a frittatina is a fried pasta croquette. The market and the friggitorie, the fry shops, lead the counts:

Da Attilio’s menu, at Via Pignasecca 17, prices the crocchè, a potato croquette with provola, at €2.50, the frittatina, a pasta croquette with béchamel, salami and peas, at €3, and the montanara, a fried pizza with tomato sauce, parmesan and basil, at €4. The Pignasecca market is named by 35 publishers across all the food lists.

The sfogliatella

The sfogliatella is a shell-shaped pastry filled with ricotta and semolina, in two forms: the riccia, crisp and layered, and the frolla, soft shortcrust.

A sfogliatella riccia, whole and cut open to show the ricotta filling. Photo: Saggittarius A, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Pasticceria Pintauro

Via Toledo 275 · Cited by 15 sources for the sfogliatella (7 English, 8 Italian) · pasticceriapintauro1785.it

The shop says the sfogliatella was born here in 1785 and has sold it on Via Toledo since. Order a riccia from the oven.

Scaturchio

Piazza San Domenico Maggiore 19, and branches at Piazza Amedeo 4/5, Via Luca Giordano 79, the Certosa, Castel Sant’Elmo and the Napoli Centrale food hall · Cited by 17 sources for the sfogliatella (9 English, 8 Italian) · scaturchio.it

The historic shop is on Piazza San Domenico Maggiore, on the Spaccanapoli walk. The shop’s own page names the babà, the sfogliatelle, the pastiera and the ministeriale, a pastry it has patented. It runs a sfogliatella workshop in its historic rooms in which visitors make a frolla, and it has branches at the Certosa di San Martino and Castel Sant’Elmo: see Castel Sant’Elmo, the Certosa and the funiculars.

Poppella

Via Arena alla Sanità 28/29, daily 06:00 to 00:00 · Via Santa Brigida 69/70, daily 08:30 to 21:00 except Monday · Piazza Cavour 76, daily 06:00 to 21:00 except Monday · Cited by 19 sources for the sweets (12 English, 7 Italian) · pasticceriapoppella.com

The pastry shop has three shops of its own. The main one is in the Sanità district, where the catacombs are: see the Catacombs of Naples. The second, on Via Santa Brigida, is two steps from the Maschio Angioino, the Galleria Umberto I and the Teatro di San Carlo, according to the shop. The lists tie it to the babà and the sfogliatella.

Attanasio

Cited by 29 sources (16 English, 13 Italian)

The most named of the sfogliatella shops: 24 publishers, 12 English and 12 Italian, name it for the sfogliatella, and 12 name it for the babà.

The babà

The babà is a yeast cake soaked in rum syrup.

Babà al rum, soaked in syrup. Photo: Marica Massaro, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Since 1994 Scaturchio has shown a babà moulded in the shape of Vesuvius in its windows, according to its own page.

Coffee

Gran Caffè Gambrinus

Via Chiaia 1, on Piazza Trieste e Trento · Cited by 25 sources (18 English, 7 Italian) · grancaffegambrinus.com

The café opened in 1860, on the ground floor of the Foresteria building of 1816, now the Prefettura, facing Piazza del Plebiscito and the Royal Palace, and the Sergio family runs it. Its own page describes the espresso as made by the old Neapolitan recipe, dark, dense and boiling, and lists flavoured coffees and the barbajata. The lists name it for coffee (24 publishers), the sfogliatella (12) and the babà (7). See the Royal Palace.

A caffè sospeso, a suspended coffee, is a custom: you pay for a second coffee in advance and the bar serves it to a stranger who asks. No bar keeps a list, so ask at the counter.

A food tour

A street-food walk covers several of these in a morning. GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices are per person:

Naples food tours compares them with the classes.

Plan the rest

Where to eat in Naples lists the restaurants the sources name, the best pizza in Naples ranks the pizzerias, and Naples food tours compares the tours. The Spaccanapoli walk passes Di Matteo, Sorbillo and Scaturchio, and 3 days in Naples fits the stops to the days. Where to stay in Naples compares the areas, and what to book in Naples lists the closed days. For another city’s street food, see Florence street food.