Originally Posted by aceman
LOL!
Forget that, cash in some miles and go to Naples, eat real pizza in a place that has been making them since 1780 -Pizzeria Brandi, made with San Marzano tomatoes, real Bufala Mozzarella and fresh basil.
You'll never put that sloppy mess with processed cheese and tasteless tomato paste that passes for pizza across America (and for that matter England) into your mouth again....
I agree with this 100%.
Although the two I have gone to in Naples that are worth remembering at Pizzeria Di Matteo and L'antica Pizzera Da Michele (pretty close to the train station).
Di Matteo is a bit more hidden but packed nightly (it was on a thursday night in 2004) and it was fantastic.
Of course, L'Antica has become more and more a tourist destination. I first went in 2004, and it was some tourists but the menu was only in Italian and an old man dressed neatly in a tie was making pizzas with care and precision at some ridiculous speed. Pizza (only Marinara and Margherita offered) was fantastic, with San Marzano tomatoes and Buffala Mozz.
Fast forward one year, they have menus in different languages, young guys making pizzas, losing for photos with Japanese tourists (the place was packed with tourists) but the Pizza retained the same quality that it had before and I feel given the passion for food in Italy, and pizza in Naples, that this will remain the case.