The Best Food City in Italy Isn't Rome or Florence (Naples Street Food)

A full day eating through Naples: the birthplace of pizza. Award-winning Neapolitan pizza, fried pasta, a 99-year-old seafood institution, hot sfogliatelle straight from the oven, and street food you can literally fold into your pocket.

🍕 From local breakfast spots in Mergellina to the madness of the historic center, this is how Naples actually eats.

We spent an entire day on a food crawl through Naples, hitting spots that range from a 1952 breakfast institution to a family seafood shop that's about to turn 100 years old, run by the fourth generation of the same family.

Along the way: the graffa (Naples' potato-dough answer to the donut), pizza from a four-time "best in Naples" winner, homestyle pasta from a nonna-run canteen where you pay on your honor, seafood arancini, warm sfogliatelle, the cuzzetiello (a hollowed-out bread bomb), and a folded "wallet pizza" straight from the oven.