Where to eat in Naples, Italy: the pizzerias, the trattorie, the pastry shops and cafés, the fried food and the Michelin restaurants that English and Italian lists name most

💡 The Short Version: The places 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 and the Pignasecca market (35 each). Outside pizza, the lists name Attanasio for sfogliatelle (29), Gran Caffè Gambrinus (25) and the trattoria Da Nennella (22). Da Michele and Sorbillo take no bookings, Da Nennella and Sorbillo are closed on Sundays, and the Michelin Guide Italia 2026 gives Naples four starred restaurants. 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. 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, Corriere della Sera, La Cucina Italiana, Fanpage, NapoliToday, Napolike and Scatti di Gusto in Italian. Naples-only sites without a named newsroom, tour operators, directories and the venues’ own sites are not counted. The searches started with pizza, so the pizzeria counts are the strongest and the others are a guide. Counts are publishers, not pages, and the English and Italian counts are shown apart. How the guides are made

⚠️ Check the day. Da Nennella, Sorbillo and Di Matteo are closed on Sundays. Starita, La Notizia and Brandi are closed on Mondays, Port’Alba on Tuesdays and La Locanda Gesù Vecchio on Mondays. In the Michelin list George and the Alain Ducasse restaurant are closed on Sundays and Mondays.

The places named by the most sources

The count is the number of publishers that name the place on a list of Naples restaurants, pizzerias, street food, pastry shops, cafés or markets, with the split between the English and Italian publishers. A place named by fewer than 15 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.

Two pizzerias outside the city are named so often that visitors take them for Naples: I Masanielli, in Caserta, with 33 (9 English, 24 Italian), and Pepe in Grani, in Caiazzo, with 28 (9 and 19). The English lists lean towards Gran Caffè Gambrinus (18 English publishers, 7 Italian), Da Nennella (16 and 6) and Sorbillo. The Italian lists lean towards the new-wave pizzerias, among them La Notizia, Palazzo Petrucci, Salvo and Diego Vitagliano, and towards the pastry shops. After Da Nennella and Mimì alla Ferrovia, no trattoria is named by more than 11 publishers.

Pizza

Pizza fills the top of the table. The best pizza in Naples gives each pizzeria’s hours, closed day, booking rule and price. The rule to know: Da Michele and Sorbillo take no bookings, and Sorbillo is closed on Sundays. The critics rank other pizzerias higher: in 50 Top Pizza Italia 2026 Palazzo Petrucci Pizzeria is 3rd, 50 Kalò 5th and La Notizia 12th, and Da Michele and Sorbillo are not in the top 100. A margherita is €6.50 at Da Michele, plus a €1 cover, and €8 at Palazzo Petrucci, according to their own menus.

Via dei Tribunali, the pizza street, where a palazzo arcade shades the pavement. Photo: Armando Mancini, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Trattorie

Da Nennella

Piazza Carità 22 · Monday to Saturday 12:00 to 15:30 and 18:45 to 23:30, closed Sunday · books online, half the seats kept for walk-ins · Cited by 22 sources (16 English, 6 Italian) · trattorianennella.it

The trattoria has served pasta, potatoes and provola since 1949, and its page says the staff greet guests with Neapolitan songs and dances. It moved from the Quartieri Spagnoli to Piazza Carità, on Via Toledo. The page says tables can be booked online and that half the seats go to people who write their name on the waiting list in the piazza and come back at the time they are given. Order the pasta, potatoes and provola. The lists also tie it to the ragù, a meat sauce cooked for hours (10 publishers), and to spaghetti with clams (7).

Mimì alla Ferrovia

Via Alfonso D’Aragona 19-21 · since 1943 · tables of one to three first come, four to ten book · Cited by 18 sources (8 English, 10 Italian) · mimiallaferrovia.it

A restaurant open since 1943, with Salvatore Giugliano as its chef. The menu has spaghetti with clams, candele alla genovese, a pasta with a slow onion and beef sauce, and ravioli with sea bass and lemon. Parties of one to three are seated first come, first served, with a waiting list at reception; parties of four to ten book on the site or on 081 553 8525.

La Locanda Gesù Vecchio

Via Giovanni Paladino 26 · closed Monday; Tuesday to Sunday 12:00 to 15:30 and 19:00 to 23:00 · Michelin Bib Gourmand · lalocandagesuvecchionapoli.it

A trattoria on Spaccanapoli, in two rooms with closely set tables, with Michelin’s Bib Gourmand. Michelin names the pasta mista with potatoes and smoked provola, the crisp salt cod on escarole cream and the lemon caprese cake, and says reservations and punctuality are essential, even at lunch.

Ostaria Pignatelli

Riviera di Chiaia 216 · daily 12:30 to 15:45 and 19:30 to 23:45 · Michelin Bib Gourmand · ostariapignatelli.com

A stone’s throw from the Villa Pignatelli, with the municipal gardens in front, according to Michelin. Michelin names the mozzarella in carrozza, the cuoppo of fried anchovies, the mixed pasta with potatoes and provola, the candele alla genovese, the salt cod and the pastiera, and says to book, even for lunch.

Pastry shops and cafés

The sfogliatella, the babà and the coffee have their own page, Naples street food and pastries. The places the counts name most. Attanasio, named by 29 publishers (16 English, 13 Italian) for sfogliatelle, is in the first table.

Gran Caffè Gambrinus on Piazza Trieste e Trento, with its terrace. Photo: Armando Mancini, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Michelin and the other awards

The Michelin Guide Italia 2026 lists four starred restaurants in the city. Michelin’s page gives each restaurant’s hours; check the restaurant’s own site before you book.

Michelin also lists eight Naples pizzerias as Selected, with no stars, and the Michelin page for George says chef Domenico Candela works from Campanian cooking with French and Japanese influences. The hotels are in where to stay in Naples.

Fried food and the market

The fried food has its own page, Naples street food and pastries. Three places lead the counts: Masardona, the fried-pizza house on Piazza Vittoria, with 27 sources; the Sorbillo family’s Zia Esterina counters, open daily, on Piazza Trieste e Trento 53, Via dei Tribunali 35 and Via Nilo 26, with 17; and the Friggitoria Vomero with 15. The Pignasecca market is named by 35 publishers, and Da Attilio, in the pizza lists, is at Via Pignasecca 17.

The Pignasecca market, with vegetable and clothes stalls on the street. Photo: IlSistemone, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

What to eat

Food tours

A food tour is a guided walk that stops to eat. GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices are per person:

Naples food tours compares them with the pizza and pasta classes.

At the table

• Cover. Da Michele charges €1 for the cover and says service is free.
• Sunday. Da Nennella, Sorbillo, Di Matteo, Veritas, the Alain Ducasse restaurant, George and ARIA are closed on Sundays, according to their own pages or Michelin.
• Queues. At the pizzerias that take no bookings, arrive when the doors open: 11:00 at Da Michele and 12:00 at Sorbillo and at 50 Kalò.

Plan the rest

Best pizza in Naples ranks the pizzerias, Naples street food and pastries covers the fried food and the sfogliatella, and Naples food tours compares the tours. 3 days in Naples fits the meals to the sights, the Spaccanapoli walk passes Sorbillo and Di Matteo on the Via dei Tribunali, 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 and where to eat in Florence.