Margherita
€6,50Tomato, fiordilatte from Agerola, basil. The one you judge us by.
Rione Sanità · Naples
Seventy seconds in the fire.
A pizzeria since 1978: dough left for twenty-four hours, an oven at 485°C, forty-eight seats and no bookings after ten.
Since 1978
One room, one oven, two pizzaioli.
Mastro Ciro built the oven in 1978 out of tuff from the hillside. It has never gone fully cold since: in the morning we light it again on the previous night’s embers.
We make thirteen pizzas and nothing else. We do not deliver — a Neapolitan pizza ten minutes inside a box is a different thing altogether, and we would rather say so than ruin your dinner.
- 1978
- Mastro Ciro’s oven
- 485°C
- The temperature, always
- 70 sec
- The time a pizza takes
How it is made
Three things and nothing more.
Flour, water, salt and yeast. Everything else is time and temperature — and that is exactly where a pizza and a Neapolitan pizza part ways.
Twenty-four hours
The dough proves for a whole day at room temperature. The slower it goes, the lighter it is: people who leave here at night sleep well.
Four hundred and eighty-five degrees
The wood oven sits at 485°C. A pizza bakes in seventy seconds, and the rim puffs up before it burns.
Gluten-free
Gluten-free dough on request, +€2. It is made on a separate surface, but flour flies everywhere in this room: tell us if the allergy is serious.
The pizzas
What comes out of the oven.
Thirteen pizzas, two pasta dishes and the fried things. The whole menu fits on one page.
Marinara
€5San Marzano tomato, garlic, oregano, oil. No mozzarella, as in 1734.
Diavola
€8Spicy Neapolitan salame, fiordilatte, tomato.
Salsiccia e friarielli
€9,50The pairing nobody in Naples argues about: sausage and bitter greens.
Capricciosa
€9,50Cooked ham, mushrooms, artichokes, olives. Everything we have.
Finding us
In the Rione Sanità, under the bridge.
Via dei Cristallini 2880137 Napoli (NA)
+39 081 000 0000Get directions
Opening hours
- Thursday – Tuesday
- Dinner 19:00 – 23:30
- Wednesday
- Closed
- Last orders
- 22:45
- On foot
- Ten minutes from the Archaeological Museum, down the Sanità steps.
- By metro
- Museo, line 1 or 2. Downhill all the way after that.
- The room
- 48 seats, shared tables when it is full. No delivery.
Before you come
The questions we are asked most.
Can I book?
Yes, from this site: fill in the request and WhatsApp opens with the message ready to send. After 10 pm we stop taking bookings — only the queue outside.
Do you deliver?
No. Ten minutes in a box turns a Neapolitan pizza into something else. Takeaway yes, but eat it straight away: the bench outside is free.
Do you have gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan pizzas?
Gluten-free dough on request (+€2), and the menu can be filtered for vegetarian and vegan. The marinara has always been vegan. Allergens are written out in full under every dish.
Is there a long wait?
On Friday and Saturday, yes — twenty to forty minutes. You wait in the street with a glass in your hand; it is part of the evening.
Do you take cards?
Yes, even for a coffee.