The pizza da Michele is certainly one of the best pizzas in Naples. In this article, the typical pizzas that are worth tasting, the history of pizza da Michele, when to go (timetables and prices) and where is the best pizzeria in Naples.
Be a Naples and not stopping to eat a pizza is a sacrilege! There are many excellent pizzerias in the city, as well as in the province. However, I cannot help but point out, for both gastronomic and historical reasons, the Pizzeria da Michele, in the historic center, in Via Cesare Sersale, a stone's throw from the Trianon Theater.
La history of Pizzeria da Michele has been on their side, in fact since 1870 they make pizza in Naples. They can only be chosen Marinara and Margherita, to ensure that taste and genuineness is enhanced, without adding Papocchie (I quote freely from their official website), in Neapolitan other ingredients. During his stay in Naples, Diego Armando Maradona, not just anyone for the Neapolitans, he often ate pizza at Michele's.
Going around the streets of Naples you will find a lot of pizzerias, certainly Michele's is not the only one, but in my opinion it is one of the best with a history worthy of being reported. Not only is it one of the oldest pizzas in town, but it has also been featured in so many films in recent years.
The ancient pizzeria was also the protagonist in the film Eat, pray, love, where Julia Roberts (in the role of Elizabeth) looks for a place to taste not only Neapolitan pizza, but a piece of history. The curiosity of the film is that Julia Roberts did not act at all while filming those scenes, she ate all her pizza at Michele's.
During trip to Naples of 48 you can taste a lot of pizzas and typical dishes. In Campania typical dishes to taste are many and the most varied. It is worth thinking about taking a trip to this fantastic land even just by organizing outings to pizzerias and pastry shops to eat the best things the city has to offer.
One piece of advice I can give you if you decide to go to this specific pizzeria is to arm yourself with good patience, because in the key hours of lunch or dinner you have to sometimes wait an infinite amount of time. An alternative is to go there at unusual times, at 12.00 or 16.00 for example. With just under € 10 per person you can eat one of the best dishes you have ever tasted.
Getting to Pizzeria da Michele from the Piazza Garibaldi station it's very simple. You have to take Corso Umberto I, also called straight (for being one of the few straight and long streets in the city), and after a few hundred meters on the right you start to smell. Good pizza!
