An iconic Naples establishment you must try atleast one. Framed for being the best pizza in Naples. For many, da Michele is also recognisable from Eat Pray Love, where Julia Roberts’ character eats pizza here as part of her Roman-and-Neapolitan carb pilgrimage. The film brought global attention, but the pizzeria’s reputation long predates Hollywood. Yes there will be lines. But you aren’t going there because it’s trendy. You go there because this is pizza at its most stripped back and uncompromising. Da Michele is famously devoted to tradition, serving essentially just two pizzas: Margherita and Marinara. That’s it. No toppings menu, no flourishes, no reinvention. And yet, many consider it the best traditional Neapolitan pizza in the world. The experience begins with the wait—standing outside with locals and pilgrims alike, ticket in hand, the smell of wood smoke and tomatoes drifting out onto the street. To help us pass the time we spotted a spritz bar across the road serving takeaways. One of us would hold the line and the other would take turns ducking across the street for takeaway aperols. Da Michelle is a popular and religious travel experience and the line reflected this. Needless to say we were tipsy by the time our ticket number was up! Inside, it’s loud, chaotic, and deeply Neapolitan. Tables are close, service is brisk, and the pizza arrives almost immediately, blistered and soft, the crust leopard-spotted from the fierce heat of the oven. The pizza itself is a lesson in restraint: sweet San Marzano tomatoes, milky mozzarella, olive oil, basil, dough so tender it almost collapses under its own weight. You don’t slice it so much as fold it, accepting that this is food meant to be eaten, not styled. This isn’t a polished dining experience. It’s not romantic or refined.It’s honest, historic, and unwavering in its belief that perfection comes from quality ingredients, patience, tradition, and doing one thing extraordinarily well. If you want to understand Naples—even just a little—start here, with a pizza that hasn’t changed because it never needed to.