Last updated: May 12, 2025

High and Low: A Taste of Two Napolis

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5 hours

Naples

Basic Information

Magpie ID: LAEPSI

Category: Food & Drink

Trip difficultly: Easy

Max Group Size: 7

Currency: USD

Language: English

TimeZone: (GMT+01:00) Rome

Booking Cutoff: minutes before travel date (midnight)

Highlights

Culinary walking tour 
Visit Vomero Hill and Spanish Quarter
Visit an artisanal cheese and charcuterie shop for a tasting
Behind the scenes at a producer of taralli
Wine tasting at a vineyard near Mount Vesuvius

Included

All food consumed on the walk – almost a dozen different edible specialties
Culinary Backstreets Guide
Alcohol sampled

Excluded

Transportation to and from the meeting point

Commentary

Summary Description

Description

On this culinary tour of central Naples, we’ll go off the beaten path by visiting two wildly contrasting neighborhoods, Vomero and the Spanish Quarter. In both we’ll stop into the places – from artisanal producers to street food vendors and more – that locals go to for the quintessential taste of the city, one that was developed over millennia and, on this walk, distilled into a single day of eating and exploring.

We’ll begin our day the Neapolitan way, with a cup of thick, piping hot espresso and the city’s signature pastry, sfogliatelle, in a Neapolitan cafe up in Vomero. Here, in this stylish hilltop neighborhood, we will indulge in some of the area’s classic bites. At a bakery we will taste stuffed pagnottiello rolls, followed by delicate montanara, baby pizza. We’ll stop by an artisanal cheese and charcuterie shop for a tasting of Campanian cheeses that go beyond mozzarella. We’ll then take in the serene views from the San Martino terrace, before hopping on the funicular and descending into the bustling streets of the old city below.

Down in Montesanto, the working-class belly of Naples, we’ll get a feel for the beautiful chaos that characterizes local life. At a neighborhood fishmonger we will have a taste of marinated anchovies and freshly-fried fish and seafood, while at a friggitoria with more than a century’s experience we’ll get a bite of fried macaroni, a favorite local specialty. We’ll go behind the scenes at a producer of taralli, the simple yet bewitching crispy snack seasoned with black pepper, and then sit down to soak up some neighborhood life with a glass of crisp white wine from a vineyard near Mount Vesuvius, readying our appetite for a course or two at a classic backstreet trattoria. We’ll continue into the narrow streets of the Spanish Quarter, shaded by laundry flapping in the breeze, to visit one of the neighborhood’s classic pizzerias on our way square dedicated to the legendary soccer player Diego Maradona, revered here like a saint after he helped bring a championship to the city. As we wind our day down with a limoncello spritz, we’ll decide if we should go for an artisanal gelato made from buffalo’s milk, or a final bracing coffee – or, better yet, both. After all, this day is all about doing and seeing things both ways.

Points of interest

Catacombe di San Gennaro, Via Capodimonte, Naples, Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy

Quartieri Spagnoli, Quartieri Spagnoli, Naples, Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy

Sant’Antonio Abate, Via Foria, Naples, Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy

Porta Capuana, Piazza San Anna a Capuana, Naples, Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy

Teatro Sanità, Vicoletto S. Vincenzo, 1, 80136 Napoli NA, Italy

Galleria Borbonica - Ingresso Vico Grottone, Vico del Grottone, Naples, Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy

Area Marina Protetta Parco Sommerso di Gaiola, Discesa Gaiola, Naples, Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy

Piazza Plebiscito, Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples, Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy

Teatro di San Carlo, Via San Carlo, Naples, Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy

Napoli Sotterranea, Vico San Anna di Palazzo, Naples, Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy

Castel dell'Ovo, Via Eldorado, Naples, Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy

Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Via Miano, Naples, Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy

Vesuvius National Park, Sentiero del Gran Cono, Ercolano, Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy

Pricing

		RETAIL PRICE	NET RATE
FOOD TOUR - BACKSTREETS NAPLES
Adult	13 years +	$150.00	Available on request
Child	6-12 years	$75.00	Available on request
Infant	0-6 years	$25.00	Available on request

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Food Tasting - Let us know if you have any allergies

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Cancellation

Cancellation Policy: standard
Cancellation Cut-off: 72 hours
Cancellation Notes: 100% refund if given 1 week notice prior to walk. 50% refund if given 72 hours notice or more. Less than 72 hours before the beginning of the activity or no-show: no refund

Terms and Conditions

Terms and Conditions:

Liability Waiver
By completing the reservation you acknowledge the following:
If you have food allergies, you are ultimately responsible to ensure your own health and safety. If you share information about your allergies, we can provide you with some guidance about the food purveyors on your tour, but we are not responsible for any allergic reactions that you may have. We are not responsible for any damages or losses incurred as result of acts by entities beyond our control, including but not limited to restaurants, shops, market stalls, eateries and food carts. We are not responsible for acts beyond our control, including but not limited to acts of God, act of nature, acts of war, or other unrest caused by state or non-state actors. If you are disruptive, we have the right to ask you to leave the tour without refunding you or providing you with a credit for your tour. You are aware of and responsible for all damages or losses that may arise during the course of the tour resulting from:
Risks associated with food, water or other drinks, including alcoholic beverages; physical accidents during the tour or at any of the locations visited; transportation failures; forces of nature; criminal activity; damage, loss or misplaced property; or accident or illness without means of rapid evacuation or availability of medical supplies or services. You agree that any claims that may arise will first go to arbitration and only if not resolved in that manner shall be heard in court. In both cases, grievances shall be heard in the jurisdiction of Washington, DC. You further agree to be responsible for your own welfare and property and accept any and all risks of delay, unanticipated events, inconvenience, illness, injury, emotional trauma or death. You further acknowledge that participation in Culinary Backstreets tours is based upon execution of this Liability Waiver. By completing the reservation process you release and discharge forever Culinary Backstreets, its employees, owners, affiliates, officers, directors, successors, agents, and assigns, from and against any liability arising from participating in this tour. You further agree that this release shall be legally binding upon you personally, all members of your family, all minors traveling with you, your heirs, successors, assigns, and legal representatives, to the maximum extent of the law.
I am aware that while on or traveling to or from my activity with Culinary Backstreets, I might be exposed to COVID-19 from other people, animals or objects. I assume all risk of any such contacts, including sickness, incapacity or death and agree to hold harmless Culinary Backstreets from any such developments. In addition, I recognize that the World Health Organization, U.S. Department of State as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may have warnings concerning same and am choosing to travel and assume all risk myself.