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Pizzeria Starita a Materdei
Naples, Italy
Recommended by Lonely Planet and 28 other food critics.
4.6
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Pizza, Naples
Pizza montanara
Recommended by The Daily Meal and 13 other food critics.
"The Montanara pizza has really put Starita on the map. The dough is deep-fried before being topped with smoked mozzarella and homemade sauce. Then, it’s finished in the oven for a creamy and crispy effect that’s unlike pizza anywhere else."
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Pizza, Italy
Pizza fiori di zucca
Recommended by Lonely Planet and 4 other food critics.
"The 60-plus pizza varieties include a tasty fiorilli e zucchine (zucchini, zucchini flowers and provola)."
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Recommendations
"Tre Spicchi Gambero Rosso 2019 Best Italian Pizzeria Awards - Pizza Napoletana: 90/100"
"The Montanara pizza has really put Starita on the map. The dough is deep-fried before being topped with smoked mozzarella and homemade sauce. Then, it’s finished in the oven for a creamy and crispy effect that’s unlike pizza anywhere else."
"The 60-plus pizza varieties include a tasty fiorilli e zucchine (zucchini, zucchini flowers and provola)."
"Where to Get Pizza in Naples: Pizzeria Starita a Materdei - The juices definitely pool in the center as you eat (take a look at the photo up at the top of this post), but the edges and underbelly still retain a thin, thin layer of crispness that adds textural contrast to the whole deal. It's a really exquisite pie."
"Pizzeria Starita is renowned for making the best marinara pizza in Naples. Antonio Starita tops the pizza dough with a delicate layer of San Marzano tomato sauce, fresh datterini (cherry) tomatoes and wild oregano. Just as the pizza comes out of the oven, he adds a dusting of freshly grated Parmesan cheese. The oregano melts into the saucy folds of crust to form an intoxicatingly aromatic pizza."
"A bit of dispassionate advice: taste the Montanara Starita! It is a fried pizza cooked in the oven with tomato and provola or ricotta, you will never find one like this, except in this place. I found it very light, despite description!"
"The world's best pizzerias: Starita, Naples - The menu features both classics and specials, including the Montanara Starita, where the based is fried in its own pan, topped with sauce and cheese and baked in the wood-fired oven. So memorably good are Starita's pizzas that he was chosen by the Vatican to present pizza to Pope John Paul II."
"The fried dough puffs into an amazingly soufflé-light disc and topped with an intense tomato sauce and imported smoked mozzarella di bufala known as provola, and then popped briefly into a volcanically hot oven. It is like eating an exceedingly flavorful pillow."
"Neapolitan institution from which you can't leave without trying the Montanara (pizza fritta covered with tomato and provola, quickly melted in the oven)."
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User comments
"There are obviously lot of very good places to eat pizza in Naples but this one blew our mind after we tasted their pizza marinara, so simple but so delicious tomato based pizza i have ever tasted"
"Pizza Marinara to die for! And its eaten in the way it should be eaten, rolled and with hands!!! If you are in Naples don't miss Starita. It is as big a must do as Pompeii..."
"Another one of my top 10! If you visit Napoli without a traditional pizza like this you miss something"
"Finally a place where we got a table fast in Naples an their pizza is amazing!"
"I like the montanara in this pizzeria because is the tastiest in city and there's no comparison with other pizzerias."