Photo Gallery: Robert Sietsema Visits Naples

Posted by Adam Kuban, February 1, 2006 at 1:53 PM

PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROBERT SIETSEMA .::.
A couple days ago, Robert Sietsema offered to let Slice post some of his photos from his recent trip to Naples. Before you take a gander, though, I'd recommend that you go read his account on the Village Voice site. It'll help put the photos in context.

OK. have you read Mr. Sietsema's column yet? Good. Now here are the pix. Be sure to click on them for larger versions, and click through the jump. There's more!

Naples street scene. Photograph by Robert Sietsema

Da Michele exterior. Photograph by Robert Sietsema

Da Michele interior. Photograph by Robert Sietsema

Da Michele pies. Margherita, foreground; Marinara, background. Photograph by Robert Sietsema

Trianon exterior. Photograph by Robert Sietsema

Trianon Marinara pie. Photograph by Robert Sietsema

Patrons of Trianon. Photograph by Robert Sietsema

Naples vegetable stand. Photograph by Robert Sietsema

Street pizza. Photograph by Robert Sietsema

Humble Pie: New Yorker discovers the true pizza of Naples [Village Voice]

2 Comments

Tags: Foreign, Italy, Naples, Neapolitan, Photo Gallery, Wood-Oven

2 Comments:

hm. the first pic of the da michele pizzas look like a bit too much like boboli for me...

Slice e.v.s. at 12:52AM on 02/02/06

Last November my GF and I made a single evening stop in Naples to try the pies at Trianon and Da Michelle.

I can assure EVS that the pizzas are *NOTHING* like Boboli. And despite eating both pies in one night, i feel like i wasted the opportunity, and should have had a third. Even if I could barely stomach water, let alone another pie.

Da Michele won out by a very slim margin (IMHO) because of the purity of the concept. It was not a restaurant. It was not a chain. It was just exactly what it was. Trianon (we sat upstairs) felt more like a family restaurant and actually had real menus! We had a pie with mushrooms and it was excellent. I love the cooked mushrooms in oil they use on pizza all over Italy.

All in all, both were better than most of what passes for pie here, even at Grimaldi's and Patsy's. The only pie I think ranks with it is DiFara's, but only on a good day.

Slice napo-lover at 12:57PM on 02/02/06

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