Neapolitan Breakfast, Pastry and coffee

At least for a day, try to have breakfast in town, there are a lot of coffee bar around of high level.
In Naples, more than in any other place in Italy, coffee is an essential rite and its preparation is done with extreme care. If you can, ask to prepare an espresso coffee made by "neapolitan machine": it's fantastic!
You can follow it with a most famous specialty of Neapolitan pastry, as the Sfogliatella riccia, a crunchy pastry shells filled either with ricotta cheese or with pastry creambut.

 

To taste in absolutely is a famous Pastiera Napoletana, easter pie filled with ricotta cheese flavoured with candied fruits, cinnamon and orange blossom essence.

In every bar you'll find a wide choice of sweet temptations, including Babà rum, a mushroom-shaped piece of grown paste, soaked with an orange flavoured mixture of rhum and water, or Struffoli, sweet fried dumplings massed into a cone and held togetherwith honey, and the famous Zeppole di San Giuseppe, puffy pastry fritters filled with cream and topped with a cherry.

Take the address of the best pastry shops in Naples

Delicious dishes to taste 

To enjoy these dishes, try to go to one of the many inns or taverns Naples, because they are poor food, but delicious, these are not offered at the restaurant. to try!

• Mozzarella in carrozza : a slice of mozzarella cheese pressed between two slices of bread, dipped in beaten eggs, coated with breadcrumps and fried in hot oil.
• Spaghetti "alla puttanesca" : spaghetti seasoned with olive oil, red pepper flakes, minced anchovies, black olives, rinced capers and tomatoes.
• Spaghetti and clams, seasoned with fresh clams in shells, fresh cherry tomatoes and parsley.
• Pasta e patate con provola : obtained cooking short pasta with diced potatoes, fresh cherry tomatoes and smoky provola cheese.
• Paccheri ai frutti di mare: flat pasta seasoned with seafood, fresh tomatoes and parsley.
• Impepata di cozze : mussels cooked in their juice with lemon, parsley and black pepper grains.
• Baccalà alla napoletana : salt cod with tomato, black olives, raisins, pinenuts, capers and garlic.
• Minestra maritata : a winter dished obtained seasoning scarola, chicory, fennel and celery with pecorino cheese and pancetta.
• Polpi affogati : baby octopus cooked in boiling salt water, olive oil, tomatoes and hot pepper.
• Peporoni imbottiti : or red and yellow bell peppers stuffed with anchovies, breadcrumbs, black olives, capers and garlic.

Take the address of typical restaurants in Naples

Pizza and snack The stalls offer a variety of appetizing to take away from fried zucchini flowers to Arancino rice. Practically everywhere you can enjoy a good pizza. In September, held an event called Pizzafest, a competition between Pizzaioli very heartfelt, with final awards for the best pizza in Naples.

Ice Cream Among the best places to enjoy a good ice cream there are Fantasia Gelati, in Vanvitelli square, La Scimmietta, in Trieste e Trento square and the chalet (kiosks) of Mergellina.