PRICE:
Frommer's Highly Recommended

A traditional restaurant with a formal -- but absolutely not stuffy -- atmosphere and very professional service, Ciro a Santa Brigida is one of the most famous, and most typical, Neapolitan restaurants around. The restaurant was opened in 1932 by the father of the current owner/managers at Via Foria, and transferred here by his children. Since then, Santa Brigida has become a gastronomical institution, serving cuisine in a warm atmosphere laden with traditional decor. Popular with locals for its fritto (deep-fried dishes including meat cutlets and seafood), and for side dishes like hard-to-find traditional vegetables, it also serves good pizza and excellent desserts. Of the traditional Neapolitan specialties on hand, try rigatoni ricotta e polpettine (pasta with ricotta and baby meatballs) and polpi alla Luciana (squid cooked in a pocket with tomato and herbs). Counted among the restaurant's famous and faithful customers were the writers Pirandello, the artist De Filippo, and the actors Gassman and Totò.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Amalfi Coast, 2nd Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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