High and Low: A Taste of Two Napolis

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Experience Details
What You’ll Experience
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Duration
5 hours
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Number of Guests
1 - 7 guests
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Language
English
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Explore Naples' contrasts on a unique food tour. Discover local flavors in Vomero and the Spanish Quarter, sampling artisan goods and street food that reflect centuries of culinary tradition.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

On this culinary tour of central Naples, we’ll go off the beaten path by visiting two wildly contrasting neighborhoods, Vomero and the Spanish Quarter. In both we’ll stop into the places – from artisanal producers to street food vendors and more – that locals go to for the quintessential taste of the city, one that was developed over millennia and, on this walk, distilled into a single day of eating and exploring.

What You Get

Bottled water
Lunch
Snacks
Private transportation

Good To Know

  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Specialized infant seats are available

What You’ll Experience

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Vomero

Naples is a city of striking contrasts, where opulence and working-class street life combine into an urban identity that is unique in Italy, if not the world. Here palaces and rooftop shanties share the same skyline, street performers and opera singers appear on the same squares, and exclusive fine-dining bastions on the hilltop overlook working-class quarters teeming with pizza ovens and buzzing with motor scooters. The physical differences between the breezy lookouts of Vomero Hill and the tight alleys of the historic Spanish Quarter are so dramatic it’s hard to believe they are both a part of the same city, separated only by a short funicular ride. However, as we will see on this day of eating and exploring, despite their differences, the people of this city are united around good old-fashioned Neapolitan cooking. From posh cafes to street food stands, Naples locals like a meal hot, quick, loud and delicious, just like their grandmothers and grandfathers before them.
2 hoursAdmission Ticket Free
2

Chiesa di Santa Maria di Montesanto

We’ll begin our day the Neapolitan way, with a cup of thick, piping hot espresso and the city’s signature pastry, sfogliatelle, in a Neapolitan cafe up in Vomero Down in Montesanto, the working-class belly of Naples, we’ll get a feel for the beautiful chaos that characterizes local life. At a neighborhood fishmonger we will have a taste of marinated anchovies and freshly-fried fish and seafood, while at a friggitoria with more than a century’s experience we’ll get a bite of fried macaroni, a favorite local specialty. We’ll go behind the scenes at a producer of taralli, the simple yet bewitching crispy snack seasoned with black pepper, and then sit down to soak up some neighborhood life with a glass of crisp white wine from a vineyard near Mount Vesuvius, readying our appetite for a course or two at a classic backstreet trattoria.
2 hoursAdmission Ticket Free
3

Quartieri Spagnoli

We’ll continue into the narrow streets of the Spanish Quarter, shaded by laundry flapping in the breeze, to visit one of the neighborhood’s classic pizzerias on our way square dedicated to the legendary soccer player Diego Maradona, revered here like a saint after he helped bring a championship to the city. As we wind our day down with a limoncello spritz, we’ll decide if we should go for an artisanal gelato made from buffalo’s milk, or a final bracing coffee – or, better yet, both. After all, this day is all about doing and seeing things both ways.
1 hourAdmission Ticket Free

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

Piazza Vanvitelli 19, Piazza Vanvitelli, Napoli Città Metropolitana di Napoli Campania, Italy, IT, 80129

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We will meet in front of Casa Infante.
End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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What People Are Saying
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A fantastic experience!
June 07, 2025
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A fantastic experience! The guide was fun and knowledgeable. We learned a lot about the people and culture of Naples, as well as a lot about food. Everything we ate was delicious. We ate a lot, but...read more

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Great tour
May 07, 2025
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Chiara was an excellent guide and even answered some questions I had days after the tour was over. The day was well paced, not too fast nor too slow, and the food tastings were spread out so that ...read more

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High and Low: A Taste of Two Napolis—Delicious!
April 02, 2025
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This is a fairly new tour for Culinary Backstreets in Naples and we highly recommend it. You start off in the Vomero neighborhood (easy to get there on the metro), a really charming, residential ne...read more

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Local inside food tour
March 31, 2025
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Francesca is amazing! We were the only 2 joining and got a private tour therefore. She took all the time to guide us through the city, show the best places and food. I can highly recommend food tou...read more

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Napoli!
March 16, 2025
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Francesca, our guide, was fantastic. We enjoyed seeing the two sides of Napoli very much. All of the choices were fantastic and very tasty and very authentic. The fried fish, pasta genoves, piz...read more

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