Choosing to experience a food tour in Naples is the best possible choice to really discover the city. In fact, here food represents the Neapolitan soul, almost everything is linked to the act of eating or similar. Be it a dessert, a pizza, a nice plate of pasta or just a cup o coffee.
Everything is linked to gastronomy and food, like a thick and tasty red thread that unites the hearts of Neapolitans and the land they breathe every day. Hence the numerous options throughout Naples. What are the stops to make? Where to eat what? Discover with us how to experience a perfect food tour in Naples.
How to choose the steps of a Food tour in Naples
One of the few certainties we have in the world is the quality of the food in Naples. Here you will eat very well wherever you go, in almost every corner of the city: from the centre to the suburbs, passing through the most touristy streets. Therefore, opting for a food tour here in Naples is always a good idea.
The historic centre is certainly one of the Neapolitan food staples, thanks to the amount of tourists there. And it is precisely the centre that is the heart of our tour, or rather, a sort of guide inside the Neapolitan culinary logistics.
If we talk about the amount of tourism present, we cannot fail to mention one of the most beautiful seafronts in the world: the Mergellina seafront. As we will see shortly, we are talking about a place that, in addition to visual beauty, offers so much beauty to the palate as well. A perfect promenade in every sense, perhaps the must-see Neapolitan destination par excellence.
Of course, all this together with the help of the Naples Pass, which with the advantages of its many attractions will be very useful to us during our trip. Stomach at the ready, hands at the ready (many times cutlery will not be so essential). All that remains is to set off!
5. Food tour in Naples: the neapolitan Pizza
This food tour of Naples will be divided into categories according to what we want to eat. The starting point must necessarily be pizza, the culinary dish that most symbolises the city. Being the home of pizza, it is more difficult to find places to eat it badly rather than well.
Here, too, you have to go by categories, dividing between pizza with traditional dough and pizza with contemporary dough. The substantial difference, put simply, lies in the high, alveolate crust (or rim if you prefer) of the second dough mentioned. In contrast, the other type keeps towards a lower and also larger in circumference ‘old style’ composition.
In both cases, the choice is very, very wide. We suggest that you mix the remarkable aesthetics of the location with the equally excellent quality of the pizza by heading to the Mergellina seafront and surroundings. Here you will find many options, almost all of them state-of-the-art. Alternatively, around the city it is easy to find unmissable pizzerias, especially if you go by the rankings in the reference guides.
4. Food tour in Naples: the cuoppo and the neapolitan street food
The second category of our Food Tour in Naples is street food, which is truly a world of its own compared to the rest of Italy. The variety of options is breathtaking just to list: from pasta frittata to potato crocchè, not to mention arancini (rice balls) and fried fish with anchovies and shrimp.
A must-visit spot where you can smell the aroma of frying on every street is the long and impressive Via Toledo, a street rich in options to savor. The same applies to the historic Spaccanapoli, a key street of the city full of history but also brimming with food and delicacies. In both areas, you’ll find not only fried foods but also the famous “pizza a portafoglio,” which is the classic Neapolitan pizza folded into four parts. Small, convenient, and delicious.
A little further down from Montesanto’s Cumana, you'll find Pignasecca, a revered place to get the famous cuoppi (paper cones) of fried fish. The local rule? Everything is strictly fresh and fried on the spot! A real treat for the taste buds.
3. Third stop of the Food Tour: Traditional first courses from Naples
We continue our Neapolitan food tour through the culinary tradition and heart of Naples with an emphasis this time on pasta dishes. Pasta is a religion throughout Italy, perhaps a little more so here. Never forbid a Neapolitan his daily plate of pasta.
The first courses that now dominate far and wide in popular preferences are Genovese, made with onions, and the eternal pasta and potatoes. These two courses are offered by all self-respecting Neapolitan kitchens. Especially in the streets of the center and the Quartieri Spagnoli, it is easy to find osterie ready to welcome you and intoxicate you with their traditional flavors.
Clearly this is not the end of the story; the options are truly vast. We also have an excellent Scarpariello, all made with fresh tomatoes, or a Nerano, or spaghetti with fried and creamed zucchini, along with provolone del monaco. For the sea, see you a few lines down, because there is plenty to talk (and eat) about here, too.
2. Food Tour with a sea view: the best seafood dishes in Naples
Our food tour in Naples must necessarily continue with another symbol of the city: the sea. If you come here on a trip, you absolutely cannot not try a nice dinner, or even lunch of course, based on fish. All fresh and all strictly delicious. We would also say obviously, since we are in Naples!
Here the areas to experience for this target audience are really many. We recommend that you enjoy it close to the sea, so we emphasize the various restaurants in Pozzuoli located between the Sandro Pertini seafront and the port. Alternatively, in the more inland areas of Mergellina and Posillipo we find other very nice places with fresh catch. For a more rustic and lively experience, there is the Pignasecca option that is by no means just street food.
Once you get to the restaurant of your choice, you have to try the Scialatielli ai frutti di mare, an authentic masterpiece of Neapolitan cuisine that includes clams, lupini and telline. Alternatively, you go for the more “simple” Spaghetti alle vongole. We close with Polpo alla Luciana, or octopus poached in tomato sauce and topped with black olives, originally from the Santa Lucia area.
1. The sweet break: the neapolitan food tour with babà, sfogliatelle and coffee
Before you go and leave the city, it is worthwhile to have a sweet feast around Naples. It is impossible to find similar delicacies elsewhere, so here we are ready to help you figure out where and what to eat among the many “sweet options” present. We are certainly not forgetting about coffee, we will talk about that too!
Let's start with the classic sfogliatelle, divided between ricce and frolle depending on the dough and preparation chosen. We continue with babas, spongy dough soaked in rum, and pastiera, a kind of wheat pizza. As you can see, the choice is as vast as it is good. Head through the alleys of Spaccanapoli or along Via Toledo ending at Piazza del Plebiscito for the full experience.
Inevitable then is a cup of coffee to complete the sweet break. Here the usual question arises: water to drink before or after coffee? We recommend that you drink it first, so that you are left with the pure essence of coffee even after the meal. Again, the advice is to experience it centrally or at the limit with a sea view on the Mergellina seafront.
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