A straw paper cone filled with small golden delicacies: the cuoppo best represents the ancient art of Neapolitan street food, a cone of mixed fried food often filled ad hoc according to the customer’s requests. In the past it was the food of the people, cheap and delicious: there was also a tacit agreement between merchants and customers, who could pay in installments but within 8 days.
The best cuoppo in Naples
Il Cuoppo – Neapolitan Fryers
The legendary Neapolitan cone for walking is filled here with many fried delights to choose from among a wide range of options. Mozzarella balls, anchovies, calamari wheels, potatoes, battered vegetables, croquettes, arancini and pasta frittatas are fried on the spot, resulting in a light and crunchy snack, perfect for a tasty break and to be enjoyed while walking. There are many other locations in Naples and outside the region.
Il Cuoppo – Neapolitan Fryers – via San Biagio dei Librai, 23 – facebook.com/ilCuoppoFriggitoriNapoletani
The Passion of Sofi
More and more locations in the city, in the region and also in the Capital for this brand where the Neapolitan ritual of fried food is celebrated every day in accordance with the typical recipes. At the counter the parade is truly inviting, and to tempt you you will find the usual parade of arancini, crocchè, pasta or gnocchi frittatine, montanarine, not to mention the pizzas and calzones. And for those who are not satisfied there is the cuoppo misto, to nibble on while walking.
The Passion of Sofi – via Toledo, 206 – passionedisofi.us/
Fried food shop Vomero
The sign is historic, it has served generations of Neapolitans from the 30s to today, especially residents of the upper part of the city, Vomero. Crocchè, arancini, eggplant, spinach, seaweed, polenta and pasta cresciute, along with fried pizzas with ricotta and mozzarella, with scarola and montanare. The Acunzo family has always fried in front of you and you can’t resist for many years if you don’t do it well. For a few euros, a little piece of paradise, in the popular style that is the soul of street food.
Fried Food Vomero – via Domenico Cimarosa, 44 – facebook.com/friggitoria.vomero/
Old Pizzeria Di Matteo
Centuries-old pizzeria in the historic center of Naples and a must-see for Neapolitan street food. Many titles and many attestations to support the goodness of the path of this activity and its protagonists who have fed and entertained all the customers, including tourists. In addition to the pizza, folded in four like a wallet, the frying shop is the workhorse for variety and goodness: rice balls, pasta frittatine, polenta scagliuozzi, courgette flowers (fiorilli), artichokes, zeppoline and the inevitable fried pizza. A sin of gluttony obligatory for the pleasure that all these delights cause, perhaps while walking among churches and monuments. The wait to enter or to buy on the fly is worth it.
Old Pizzeria Di Matteo – via dei Tribunali, 94 – anticapizzeriadimatteo.it/
Errico Porzio
On the go, in addition to Neapolitan pizza, here you can find excellent cuoppi with rice balls, crocchè, zeppoline, frittatine and chips; or montanare with mortadella, ricotta and chopped pistachios, or Genovese and buffalo sauce. There are many locations of this activity that started in Vomero, now present in other areas of Campania and Lazio, and from the rumors it seems that the advance has not ended here.
Errico Porzio – via Alessandro Scarlatti, 84 – via Cornelia dei Gracchi, 27 – via Partenope, 11 – pizzerierricoporzio.it/
Very old Pizzeria Port’Alba 1738
The date of origin alone would be enough to understand that here we are in the history of pizzerias and street food. Historic center, near the Conservatory of Music, in one of the oldest gates of the city, where young people and tourists stock up on cuoppi with croquettes, rice balls, breaded mozzarella, fried courgettes, pizzas, stuffed and unstuffed courgette flowers, pasta frittatas. Then there are the seafood cuoppi: calamari, shrimp, seaweed zeppoline, red mullet, cod, “a fica a suace”. You can recognize the place by the smell that fills the entire street.
Very old Pizzeria Port’Alba 1738 – via Port’Alba, 18 – anticapizzeriaportalba.com/
Pignasecca Market
A carousel of colorful stalls and the lively coming and going of those who come to do their shopping, peeking between the stalls and shops that sell fish, fresh vegetables, seasonal fruit and even cured meats, dairy products and cheeses, characterize this market. Among the various street food points present, the cuoppo is not missing, specifically the fish one from Pescheria Azzurra, a stall that offers very fresh fish products every day, which become even better when fried.
Mercato della Pignasecca – via Pignasecca, 28
1947 Fried Pizza
A spartan and informal place where you can taste a delicious fried pizza. But next to the star of the place, there is also the legendary cuoppo, the rolled paper cone containing zeppoline, pasta frittatine and crocchè, golden and irresistible morsels. There is also a delicious seafood version with anchovies, shrimp and calamari.
1947 Fried Pizza – via Pietro Colletta, 29/31 – 1947-pizzafritta.business.site/
