Pizzaiolo del Presidente - Napoli's Most Famous Pizzeria

Tom

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:22:57 GMT

Best pizza. Period !

My friend, a native Napolitano, brought my family there for dinner in year 2009. Best friend, best pizza, and the cheese ball (?) is great too :)

Tom from Hong Kong

Brian

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:29:12 GMT

I wish we had egg yolks that gorgeous here in the states. It looks almost a orange-y color. Ours are a pale yellow.

Barbara

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:10:59 GMT

Can you send me the recipe for the macaroni stuffed with cheese and peas that they serve at this pizza place, please? I had it 5 years ago and still dream about it and cant find it anywhere. Arancini isnt the same. Thanks.

fx

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:18:04 GMT

Yes, indeed, presidential food it is!

clarissa

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:37:08 GMT

Seven years ago I rented a room in my london flat, a young man from italy took the room, last week my family and i met him in italy, he is from salerno and he took us to napoli for the finest pizza that i will ever eat! no superlative will be too much, quite simply this was the best pizza that i shall ever eat, infact i advised him that I could never eat pizza again unless it was at il presidente a visit here is essential, do not go to napoli without eating here, also the macroni breadcrumb "dumplings" were sublimehappy eating!

fx

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:18:15 GMT

Paul if only Naples was not such a dangerous place (it really is!) I"d vote it one of the best cities in Europe. The food is so superlative and affordable (as long as you count euros, not calories), and the streets are oozing 2000 years of history. Great place.

Paul Hopkins

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:33:13 GMT

Just returned from a trip to Rome and Naples, and we had a terrific dinner at the "President"s" pizzeria. For three or four euros we each (and there were 12 of us) got a whole, fresh pizza. Delicious!

susie

Sun, 2 Nov 2008 09:34:15 GMT

Just got back from Bolognetta, Sicily to vist relatives and was treated to homemade pizza like the ones in Napoli. I watched my cousin mix semolina, water and yeast together on a table, adding more water as needed until the flour could take no more and had a soft dough. THEN she added the olive oil, kneading it in as she had the water. With oily hands she pinched handfulls from the ball and rounded then out. They were placed between 2 blankets to rise for one hour only. Then they were flattened, dressed and cooked in a wood oven...puffed and crusty.

fx

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:07:55 GMT

Excellent idea Nick, the locals in Napoli all have very clear ideas about which pizzeria they like best. That"s how I found the guy who made the pizza fritta.

fx

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:42:12 GMT

Luca, you must be Neapolitan living abroad to feel so strongly about your pizza! In fact it is one of the few pizzas offered on the menu and nothing special for me. If you feel that breaking an egg on a pizza should be like breaking the law I suggest you bring it up with the owner of Pizzaiolo del Presidente. I am sure he will answer you. Thanks anyway for the visit!

Luca

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:13:43 GMT

Nice article but... egg on the top of a pizza... come on!!I am sure it was your request: no pizza is prepared with eggs on top!

Nick

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:31:48 GMT

Two friends and I were in Napoli the summer of 2007, and were directed to this holiest of pizza holies by a friendly vespa courier in front of the train station. It really is the best pizza we ever had, or will ever have. If you get lost on the way there, as we did, just ask any local for "pizzeria molto bene."

Jacqui

Mon, 8 Oct 2007 12:41:32 GMT

This looks soo good. I would love to go to Italy, and when I do, I"ll go and eat this pizza. Did you see the Heston Blumenthal show where he tries to replicate the pizza he had there? Well worth watching! Anyway, keep writing these blogs, I really look forward to each new entry!

George Nathaniel Cobb Clark II

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:45:57 GMT

I like a lot of pasta and as I were looking . Knowing me and my eyes with the taste buds. I would say deliscious and surprising. Wonderful clear shot. Thanx for asking.. Sincerely, George , Newport News, Va.

pietro

Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:17:50 GMT

La pizza napoletana � la vera pizza nel mondo non c� una uguale.Lo dice un Napoletano que emigr� 57 anni f�

parshu.naraynan

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:03:53 GMT

My mouth had been watering since I saw this. To my delight, right across the road from my office block in hot & dusty old Gurgaon, a suburb of Delhi, I found a restaurant called Tonino which has a tie-up with a restaurant in Italy by the same name. They delivered a wood-fire oven pizza which was pretty similar visually to the FX pic, which they claimed was made with dough and cheese imported from Italy though its probably pretty far from it taste-wise. Still, I had fun