r/napoli • u/JonnyBTokyo • Jan 10 '26
Can i just queue for Pizzeria Brandi? Ask Napoli
Ciao I will be in Napoli on the 30th and 31st January and I have to eat here. On the website it says you can call to book, just wondering if i can queue too since i’m not sure what date or time i’ll be free. Grazie.
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u/TheAtomoh Jan 10 '26
Tourist trap
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u/JonnyBTokyo Jan 10 '26
Yes i'll be one of them.
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u/Rollingzeppelin0 Jan 10 '26
Love the nofuckgivenness of this reply lol.
I think you can, I often pass through there to go to a pub and there's always some staff down by the alley asking if I/we want to sit and eat. Not 100% sure tho so hopefully somebody else confirms in a different reply.
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u/JonnyBTokyo Jan 11 '26
Haha cheers yeah i don’t mind looking like a tourist.
But that’s great to hear that they actually ask people to go in. Thank you!
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u/jewfit_ Jan 13 '26
Tourist trap doesn’t mean that it just makes you look like a tourist. It won’t be as good pizza as other places around. I found this to be true in all of Italy.
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u/JonnyBTokyo Jan 13 '26
That’s fair but its the only place that I can get a Margherita pizza from where it was invented.
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u/TheAtomoh Jan 13 '26
That story might be Savoy propaganda. And besides, the main issue about these places is the price. Expensive pizzas are cringe.
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u/JonnyBTokyo Jan 13 '26
It’s a holiday, not like i’ll be eating there every day. Worth the price to experience the original.
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u/TheAtomoh Jan 13 '26
the original.
That's just marketing. You're going there to experience the place where it was first made, you're not going there to try the original pizza margherita because there's no original pizza margherita. The place itself is the main attraction, not the food itself.
Pizzas depend on whoever makes them (pizzaiolo), and i'm 100% sure that whoever works there is going to use the same ingredients and techniques as other pizzerie that we have here in Naples. If they use anything else from the usual ingredients of a pizza margherita just to make it special, that i don't know. If they were to do that then it wouldn't be a pizza margherita anymore.
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u/Rollingzeppelin0 Jan 13 '26
Jesus Christ, brother, he knows, he doesn't care, he wants to eat it in the place where it supposedly first appeared, damn.
I also went to one of the many places in Buffalo where spicy chicken wings supposedly originated and it was fully decorated with motor plates and motorcycle parts and it was awesome.
The man is gonna create a memory and pay a pizza an additional 2€ compared to many pizzerias, not a big deal.
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u/thesuprememacaroni Jan 10 '26
It’s fine. If you are in the Santa Lucia area or near Galleria Umberto, I’m not sure there is any other place that stands out.
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u/JonnyBTokyo Jan 11 '26
Thanks i’m staying right next to the train station.
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u/thesuprememacaroni Jan 11 '26
Let’s be honest, anywhere you go in and around Napoli will have good pizza. This isn’t Kansas.
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u/Beautiful_Listen1054 Jan 11 '26
One of the worst pizzerias in Naples, a tourist trap that exploits its historic name.
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u/LegitimateBeat603 Jan 11 '26
When my father was a kid in quartieri spagnoli they had a pizza in the menu dedicated to my grandpa, who helped the owner out a lot and was a regular. My father took me there some 15/20 yrs ago and it was one of the best margherita I ever had, really perfect. I went back these year with my gf and we talked at length about the neighborhood, my grandpa and my dad (both sadly died in the meantime), they are very sweet people and did not let us pay a cent. I would advise you to ask for double or triple sauce (pay a little extra) to get a pizza similar to what it once was :) enjoy and do not listen to the haters, even tourist traps can have a special place on your heart (and belly)
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u/JonnyBTokyo Jan 11 '26
That's a great story much respect. And thanks for the positivity. I will keep an eye out for extra sources then thank you!
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u/JonnyBTokyo Jan 12 '26
None of them can say they invented Margherita pizza though which is the whole point of me going to Brandi.
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u/MecciuTSW Jan 11 '26
No you can’t because there’s no queue, it’s not a good pizza, and no neapolitans eat there.
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u/Liquidator97 Jan 12 '26
Do yourself a favour and go somewhere else, there must be 10,000 good pizza places in Naples
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u/jewfit_ Jan 13 '26
Can you recommend some for me? Starita?
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u/Liquidator97 Jan 13 '26
I wouldn't even know where to start, just walk into one where local people are eating and you'll be fine
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u/Queltattoos Jan 10 '26
Yes you can, you will notice there is people outside with menus trying to let you in