Discover the best Pizza Fritta pizza

Pizza fritta is Naples' fried answer to the oven. The dough is stuffed with ricotta, cicoli, provola and a little tomato, sealed, and dropped into hot oil until it puffs gold. It is street food first: handheld, hot, eaten from paper. Did you know? It spread in the lean years after the Second World War, when wood and ovens were scarce and frying was cheaper, a scene immortalized by Sophia Loren in the film L'Oro di Napoli. It shares its roots with classic Neapolitan pizza. The places below keep the tradition alive, from old friggitorie to kitchens giving it a second look. We ordered them by what people who came for it actually said, not by nostalgia.