Naples Food & Wine Tours
Naples is the city that gave the world pizza and still makes it best: 90 seconds in a wood oven, a soft rim, San Marzano tomatoes and buffalo mozzarella, sold folded in paper on the street for a few euros. This is our Naples hub. Below are the top-rated food and wine experiences in the city, then our detailed pages: pizza-making classes with a pizzaiolo, street-food tours through Spaccanapoli and the markets, and cooking classes for the rest of the Neapolitan kitchen.
Top-rated food experiences in Naples
Three ways in: a pizza class with a Neapolitan pizzaiolo; a street-food tour through the old centre; a cooking class for ragù, pasta and the pastries.
What to eat: pizza a portafoglio, pizza fritta, frittatina di pasta, a cuoppo of fried seafood, sfogliatella and babà, mozzarella di bufala, an espresso at the bar.
Where: Via dei Tribunali and Spaccanapoli for pizza, the Pignasecca market, the Quartieri Spagnoli, the Sanità for the food the guides argue about, Chiaia for aperitivo.
Food in Naples: how the city eats
Naples eats fast, cheap and in the street. Pizza is the obvious thing, and the city takes it seriously enough that UNESCO listed the art of the Neapolitan pizzaiuolo as intangible heritage in 2017, but the street food goes further: frittatina, a fried block of pasta and béchamel; the cuoppo, a paper cone of fried fish or vegetables; sfogliatella, the layered ricotta pastry, in its crisp riccia and soft frolla forms; babà soaked in rum; and coffee, drunk standing, sometimes paid forward as a caffè sospeso for the next person. The old centre, Spaccanapoli and Via dei Tribunali, is where most of it happens.
Pizza-making classes
Two to three hours with a working pizzaiolo, often in a real pizzeria: dough by hand, the slap and stretch, a Margherita in a wood oven, and your pizza to eat. The most booked experience in the city and the one children remember. See pizza making classes in Naples.
Street-food tours
Three hours through the old centre with eight to ten tastings: pizza a portafoglio, frittatina, cuoppo, sfogliatella, mozzarella, espresso. Some go into the Sanità or the Quartieri Spagnoli; all are cheap by the standards of Rome and Florence. See Naples food tours.
Cooking classes
For everything that is not pizza: ragù napoletano that cooks for hours, the onion-based genovese, pasta e patate, fresh mozzarella, and the pastries. Often in a Neapolitan home. See Naples cooking classes.
Wine and day trips
Vesuvius makes Lacryma Christi, red and white, on the volcano’s slopes 30 minutes away, and several tours combine a winery with Pompeii. Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast, an hour south, are limoncello and lemon-grove cooking classes. Rome is 70 minutes by fast train; see Rome food and wine tours.
When to come
Any month: the food does not have a season, though summer is hot and the sea is the reason to come then. Easter brings pastiera, the ricotta-and-wheat tart; Christmas the struffoli. Book pizza classes a week or two ahead in spring and autumn.
Read next: 5 days in Naples & the Amalfi Coast
How we choose
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FAQ about Naples Food & Wine Tours
Frequently asked questions
Why Naples for food?
Because it is the cheapest great food city in Europe, and the most specific: pizza, fried things in paper cones, pastries with names you have to learn, and coffee taken standing up in ten seconds.
What food is Naples known for?
Pizza first, then street food: frittatina, cuoppo, pizza fritta; pastries: sfogliatella, babà, pastiera; mozzarella di bufala, ragù napoletano and espresso.
Is Naples safe for a food tour?
Yes with normal city sense; tours stay in busy streets and guides know the neighbourhoods, including the Sanità and the Quartieri Spagnoli.
Pizza class or food tour?
Both if you can: the tour to eat the city’s pizza, the class to make it. If one, the class; it is the thing Naples does that nowhere else can.
Can I visit Naples from Rome for the day?
Yes, 70 minutes by fast train; a pizza class and a street-food tour fit in one day.
What is a caffè sospeso?
A coffee paid for in advance for a stranger who cannot afford one, a Neapolitan tradition that bars still honour.