Pizza fritta is a deep-fried pocket of risen dough stuffed with ricotta, cicoli (pressed pork scratchings), provola and black pepper, fried in hot lard or oil until blistered and golden, served folded in paper.
Pizza fritta became the street food of post-World War II Naples when wood-fired ovens were scarce and lard was cheap; vendors fried pizzas on portable stoves in the Quartieri Spagnoli and Sanita. Sofia Loren famously sold pizza fritta in the 1954 film L'Oro di Napoli, shot on location in the city.
3 editor picks for Pizza Fritta in Naples, ranked by editorial score. All Naples signature dishes · Pizza Fritta across every city.
Pizzeria Starita a Materdei ★ 4.6
materdei · Via Materdei 27/28, 80136 Napoli
Starita in Naples' Materdei has run the wood ovens since 1901, with the montanara fried pizza (Sophia Loren's choice on screen) the unmissable order alongside the canonical margherita.
Sorbillo Lievito Madre ★ 4.5
centro-storico · Via dei Tribunali 36, 80138 Napoli
Sorbillo Lievito Madre on Via dei Tribunali in Naples is the Sorbillo family's pizza fritta and al taglio counter two doors from the main pizzeria, with pizza fritta the unmissable order.
Pizzeria di Matteo ★ 4.4
centro-storico · Via dei Tribunali 94, 80138 Napoli
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 sits in the legend.