Eat in Sanita (sanita), Naples

Concettina ai Tre Santi ★ 4.7

Ciro Oliva's Concettina ai Tre Santi in Naples' Sanita is the modern pizza fine-dining room, with tasting menus of six small pizzas and a wine pairing in the historic 1951 family room.

Signature: Tasting pizza menu, Pizza margherita, Pizza marinara

Order: The five-pizza tasting menu and the modern margherita with three tomato cuts.

Tip: Book on the website three weeks ahead. The tasting menu runs 45 euros; the historic counter still serves the classic pizzas.

Concettina ai Tre Santi ★ 4.7

Ciro Oliva's Concettina ai Tre Santi in Naples' Sanita is the modern pizza fine-dining room, with tasting menus of six small pizzas and wine pairing in the 1951 family room.

Tip: Book on the website three weeks ahead. Tasting runs 45 euros; the historic counter still serves classic pizzas alongside.

Concettina ai Tre Santi ★ 4.7

Ciro Oliva's Concettina ai Tre Santi in Naples' Sanita is the modern pizza fine-dining counter, with tasting menus of six small pizzas and a wine pairing in the historic 1951 room.

Order: The five-pizza tasting menu and the modern margherita with three tomato cuts.

Tip: Book on the website three weeks ahead. Tasting runs 45 euros; the historic counter still serves the classic pizzas.

Pasticceria Poppella ★ 4.7

Poppella in Naples' Sanita has run the family pastry counter since 1920, with the fiocco di neve (snow-flake brioche with cream filling) the dish that turned the bakery into a 2014 cult hit.

Signature drink: Espresso, fiocco di neve

Tip: Open daily 07:00 to 22:00. The fiocco di neve at 1 euro 50 is the only order; queue can be 30 minutes on weekends.

Pasticceria Poppella ★ 4.7

Poppella in Naples' Sanita has run the family pastry counter since 1920, with the fiocco di neve (snow-flake brioche with cream filling) the dish that turned the bakery into a 2014 cult hit.

Tip: Open daily 07:00 to 22:00. The fiocco di neve at 1 euro 50 is the only order; queue can be 30 minutes on weekends.

Worth the queue: Fiocco di neve

Pasticceria Poppella Window ★ 4.7

Poppella in Naples' Sanita has run the family pastry counter since 1920, with the fiocco di neve (snow-flake brioche) the dish that turned the bakery into a 2014 cult hit and the local-buy.

Try: Fiocco di neve brioche with cream

Tip: Open daily 07:00 to 22:00. The fiocco di neve at 1 euro 50 is the only order; queue 30 minutes on weekends.

Pasticceria Poppella ★ 4.6

Poppella in Naples' Sanita sells the fiocco di neve (snow-flake cream brioche) at 1 euro 50 apiece, the city's best-value pastry buy and a cult 2014 confection from a 1920 family shop.

Try: Fiocco di neve

Tip: Open daily 07:00 to 22:00. Queue can reach 30 minutes on weekends; multiple branches across town.

Concettina ai Tre Santi ★ 4.7

Ciro Oliva's Concettina ai Tre Santi in Naples' Sanita is the modern pizza fine-dining room that most tourists never reach, with tasting menus of six small pizzas in the historic 1951 family room.

Order: The five-pizza tasting menu, especially the modern margherita with three tomato cuts.

Why locals love it: Deep in the Rione Sanita, a neighbourhood most visitors skip, Ciro Oliva's pizzeria sits beside a street shrine on a cobbled backstreet; you need to walk ten minutes from the Piazza Dante metro to reach it.

Tip: Book three weeks ahead; the tasting menu at 45 euros is the entry point. Walking into the Sanita is the reward in itself.

Pasticceria Poppella ★ 4.6

Poppella in Naples' Sanita is the original branch of the fiocco di neve bakery, a 1920 family pasticceria in a neighbourhood most tourists avoid, selling the cream brioche that launched a thousand imitators.

Order: Fiocco di neve (snow-flake cream brioche) at 1 euro 50, the original 2014 recipe.

Why locals love it: The original Poppella sits at the bottom of the Sanita, the neighbourhood that most Naples guides skip; the fiocco di neve cult started here in 2014 and the Sanita shop is still cheaper and calmer than the branches.

Tip: Open daily 07:00 to 22:00. The Sanita original bakes the same fiocco di neve as the other branches but at a gentler pace.

Pasticceria Poppella ★ 4.6

Poppella in Naples' Sanita has run the family pastry counter since 1920, with the fiocco di neve (snow-flake cream brioche at 1 euro 50) the morning pastry that turned a quiet neighbourhood shop into a city-wide cult.

Order: Fiocco di neve brioche with cream filling.

Tip: Open daily 07:00 to 22:00. Weekend queue can be 30 minutes; the Vomero branch at Via Belvedere 84 is calmer.