Large mixed vegetable plate, changing daily, at Un Sorriso Integrale
As seen in an earlier post, seafood often dominated our orders in restaurants. Great seafood often proved easier to locate than the vegetables we found ourselves craving.
Un Sorriso Integrale – Amico Bio Napoli was our salvation. We probably ate there five or six times for vegetable catch-up days. The selection is diverse and always changing to take advantage of the best vegetables of the season. And all are amazingly inexpensive. Always start with a dish of their spicy, truly spicy, fried chickpeas. Rather than make up my mind, I loved getting their mixed plate, which comes with a bowl of soup and six different vegetable combinations. The Mister was hooked on the wok plate. Oh, and a little picante chocolate soufflé to round out the meal.
L’Ostricaio zucchini
Re Lazzarone pearl-like pasta with vegetables
Sorriso Integrale chocolate souffle picante
Anonymous Trattoria Gourmet contorni
Sorriso Integrale eggplant
Re Lazzarone oriccette with broccoli and speck
Sorriso Integrale gilled eggplant, stuffed peppers, fried pumpkin cake
Olio & Pomodoro split pizza
Godot Restaurant
Pizzeria Errico Porzio Vomero genovese and margherita pizzas
Trattoria Scugnizzi Vomero fried pizza
Re Lazzarone chocolate mousse
Re Lazzarone ravioli
Sorriso Integrale vegetable stirfry
Sorriso Integrale falafel
Trattoria Scugnizzi Vomero antipasti part II
Trattoria Scugnizzi Vomero antipasti part I
Antichi Sapori Partenopei eggplant
Trattoria Scugnizzi margherita pizza with eggplant
Anonymous Trattoria Gourmet bruschetta
gelato
Godot Restaurant croquettes
Anonymous Trattoria Gourmet pasta e patate
Godot Restaurant eggplant parmigiana
Olio & Pomodoro salad
Anonymous Trattoria Gourmet paccheri alla bufalina
Sorriso Integrale spicy fried chickpeas
Paccheri, an extra-large tubular pasta, seems to be a favorite regional pasta, with good reason. Antipasti combinations, such as the five-plate selection spread over two photos at Trattoria Scugnizzi Vomero, invite exploration. Two distinctively Neopolitan dishes we tried once but failed to understand their popularity were pasta e patate (pasta and potato is quite a starchy overload) and fried pizza (way too much fried dough).
Most of these restaurants are frequented by locals and were mentioned in the seafood post, so this time around I will just post their links to click in case a photo inspires you to investigate whether to add them to your list of places to try. Since most of these are not tourist-dependent, I am hoping they will survive the current slow-down.
In the Vomero neighborhood:
Trattoria Scugnizzi Vomero
Godot Restaurant
Olio e Pomodoro
Pizzeria Errico Porzio Vomero
In the historic center:
Re Lazzarone Trattoria Contemporanea
Anonymous Trattoria Gourmet
Antichi Sapori Partenenopei
Ristorante L’Ostricaio
Postcards from Barton Springs 