Expensive Off the Via Toledo, one of the main shopping streets and the main N-S street. In warm weather, try to sit outside. Inside, the choice is between a cramped upstairs room or an even more cramped downstairs area, which is too uncomfortable for me. The regulars are a very substantial local crowd, including the arty and highly cultured denizens of this nowadays fashionable neighborhood inside the old city walls. Small trattoria-like restaurant on Riviera di Chiaia, one of the main streets along the bay and its public park, Villa Communale.
Ingredients are of the highest quality and the kitchen has finesse with the simplest dishes.
Could be a meal, but save room for perfectly prepared, if simple pasta with seafood and fresh fish. It's on Riviera di Chiaia, which, as some street in Naples do, has a different name at that point, tel. Closed Sundays, except in December Aqua Pazza is a typical method of cooking fish. A few years ago, after the local government and business community was purged of numerous crooks, the joke was that the dining room was empty. All the regulars were in jail.