Tandem Ragu is a neapolitan ragu specialist restaurant in Centro Storico, Naples.
Editorially verified May 31, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
Take the opportunity to make a pizza and tiramisù in Naples. Follow the Chef, prepare the dough from scratch, learn how to prepare the tomato sauce, and later enjoy yo...
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Learn the art of Neapolitan pizza from a local pizzaiolo. Craft your own dough, fire it in a wood oven, and savor your creation, plus enjoy a surprise Secret Dish.
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Taste the best of Naples on this gastronomic tour in the Rua Catalana neighborhood. Choose between two tour options and indulge your palate with food and wine tastings...
Address: Via Paladino 51, 80138 Napoli, Naples
Di Matteo on Via dei Tribunali in Naples has fried pizza, frittatine and crocchè from the streetside window since 1936; Bill Clinton's 1994 lunch stop.
OrderPizza fritta from the window, pizza margherita inside and crocchè di patate.
TipOpen daily 10:00-24:00. Cash preferred at the window; sit-down service runs upstairs.
Salumeria Upnea in Naples' Centro Storico is the deli-bistro hybrid pouring Campania natural wines, with salumi-and-cheese boards and a daily-changing pasta.
OrderThe salumi flight, pasta alla genovese, caciocavallo impiccato with grilled bread.
TipClosed Monday. Open daily 12:00-23:00 otherwise. Walk-in counter; bookings for the back room.
Da Michele in Naples' Forcella has baked margherita and marinara since 1870, the city's defining pizza counter. Kitchen leans neapolitan pizza.
OrderPizza margherita and pizza marinara, the only two on the carte for 150 years.
TipTake a numbered ticket from the door and wait outside. Margherita is 5 euros 50; cash preferred.
Starita in Naples' Materdei has run the wood ovens since 1901, with the montanara fried pizza (Sophia Loren's screen choice) the unmissable order alongside.
OrderMontanara fried pizza, margherita and angioletti dough fritters to start.
TipClosed Monday lunch; otherwise daily 12:00-24:00. No bookings; arrive 12:30 or 19:30 for the shortest queue.
Di Matteo on Via dei Tribunali in Naples has fried pizza, frittatine and crocchè from the streetside window since 1936; Bill Clinton's 1994 lunch stop.
OrderPizza fritta from the window, pizza margherita inside and crocchè di patate.
TipOpen daily 10:00-24:00. Cash preferred at the window; sit-down service runs upstairs.
Salumeria Upnea in Naples' Centro Storico is the deli-bistro hybrid pouring Campania natural wines, with salumi-and-cheese boards and a daily-changing pasta.
OrderThe salumi flight, pasta alla genovese, caciocavallo impiccato with grilled bread.
TipClosed Monday. Open daily 12:00-23:00 otherwise. Walk-in counter; bookings for the back room.
Da Ettore in Naples' Santa Lucia has invented the pagnottiello (stuffed pizza-bread sandwich) since 1955, plus a full carte of seafood pastas.
OrderPagnottiello stuffed with prosciutto and provola, spaghetti alle vongole.
TipClosed Sunday all day. Book ahead for weekends; pagnottiello runs around 9 euros.
Brandi off Via Toledo in Naples claims the 1889 invention of the pizza margherita by Raffaele Esposito for Queen Margherita of Savoy. Priced at €€.
OrderPizza margherita, the canonical version named for the queen in 1889.
TipOpen daily 12:00-15:30 and 19:00-24:00. Book ahead for groups; the original Esposito plaque sits at the entrance.
