Spaccanapoli Nr. 12

Neapolitan pizza near Boxhagener Platz: classics with San Marzano and fiordilatte, house creations, fried starters and lots of pistachio.

Spaccanapoli is the name of the dead-straight street that splits the old town of Naples in two. The pizzeria at Wühlischstraße 12 is named after it and bakes pizza the way it is eaten there: a thin, soft base and a high crust.

The classics come with San Marzano tomatoes and fiordilatte, from the Margherita to salsiccia e friarielli with wild broccoli. Alongside them are house creations with names like "Stairway to Heaven" or "Ok Boomer". Several pizzas are vegan, such as the Green Power with courgette sauce, vegan mozzarella and fried mint. For the crust there are house dips: black garlic mayonnaise or mint-pistachio cream.

Pistachio runs through the whole menu anyway. It is in the Pistacchia with ricotta cream, burrata and mortadella, in the cream of the aubergine arancine, in the pesto for the linguine with red prawns and in the house-made tiramisù. To start there is fried food: arancini, zeppoline, mozzarelline and courgette flowers stuffed with ricotta and provola. To finish, next to tiramisù and panna cotta, there is a cannolo with Sicilian sheep's ricotta.