Vico del GranatelloPorticiLa bottega · N° 14
A counter, a dough room, a wood oven and a cold room, three streets back from the sea in Portici. Come for a pizza by the oven on a weekend night, or collect your kit on the way home.
Dal 1987
Gennaro opened the counter; Nunzia and Ciro added the van.
Gennaro Iovine built the oven himself in 1987 from volcanic stone hauled down from the slopes behind Ercolano. For thirty years it baked for the vico — the fishermen at lunch, families on Saturday night.
In the spring of 2020 the counter closed and the phone kept ringing. Nunzia started packing dough balls for neighbours; Ciro started driving them further. By the summer the kits were going to Milan.
— Nunzia and Ciro Iovine
La settimana
Painted on the shutter by Ciro, repainted every spring.
Il banco dell’impasto
Runs the dough room and the counter. Weighs every ball, writes every oven card, answers the email in the afternoon between the biga and the shaping.
“If your pizza comes out pale, write to me. I want to know which oven.”
Il furgone
Packs the kits and drives the chilled van to the depot at noon. Mends the peels, paints the shutter, carries the flour.
“A box that arrives warm is my problem, not yours.”
1987the oven is lit for the first time
2020the first kit leaves Portici
20regions we deliver to
Vico del Granatello, 14
80055 Portici · Napoli
Scrivici
Allergies, a wedding, a pizza that came out pale. Nunzia answers in the afternoon.
Wheat (gluten) and milk in every kit; the Verde has pine nuts in the pesto, the anchovy topping is fish. Everything is made in a kitchen that handles nuts.
Yes, Monday to Thursday between 15:00 and 19:00 from the shop window. Choose collection at checkout and there is no delivery charge.
Not yet. We would rather not make it in the same room as the 00 flour and promise something we can’t keep.