A local guide to Naples: pizza, palaces and dancing under the stars

Our pizzas, pastries, pasta and ice cream are delicious, but not so healthy. To prove that good food can be good for you, fitness fan Marco Pera and his friends have opened the Sano Sano restaurant in the center of Naples. They source organic vegetables and grains, fish and meat within a 20 km radius, cook at low temperatures whenever possible (there is no frying) and use olive oil. top quality olives. Unusually for Italy, its two floors and terrace are open from breakfast until midnight. I love her linguine with cherry tomatoes and almond pesto, but the roasted potatoes with skin are also glorious, as is the seafood salad with blueberries and currants.

Neapolitan pizza has been listed in Unesco since 2017, but famous outlets like Da Michele have become tourist traps. Among the oldest pizzerias is Lombardi, where Carlo Alberto, fifth generation, prepares pizzas with a 48-hour fermented dough: well-risen and slightly blistered crust; flavors of mozzarella, tomato, basil and oil working in harmony.

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