l'Oro di Napoli

L’Oro di Napoli is set on the corner of a busy crossroads in South Ealing. It has a sister branch in Hanwell. The Ealing restaurant is a quite small, bustling place, turning tables rapidly and with fairly cramped, packed tables. The attraction is the pizza oven, from which emerge excellent Neapolitan pizzas, with a soft, pliable crust with leopard spotting from the charcoal. Toppings are more generous than some pizzerias and are nothing special in terms of ingredient quality, but the quality of the pizza base is the key. We had a diavola pizza with spicy salami and a capricciosa pizza at this visit, and both were very good (both 13/20). There was an olive stone in one of the olives on the capricciosa topping, which could have been quite an awkward dental surprise, and the mushrooms seemed to be from a tin, but the tomatoes were of reasonable quality. 

Although the gelato is bought in, the tiramisu was home-made and was genuinely good, better than some much fancier restaurants. It had a proper kick of coffee and good texture (14/20). Coffee itself has slid down a level since my last visit, now using cheap coffee beans from Biancaffe, an Italian roaster based in Naples (originally from Salerno, established in 1932) that was not even pure arabica, but a blend involving 20% of cheaper robusta. Service was stretched but friendly and efficient, with the bill coming to £35, with just beer and water to drink. L’Oro di Napoli is not somewhere to linger, but the pizzas here are the real thing.

Further reviews: 02nd Jun 2024 | 04th Jun 2019 | 23rd Mar 2017 | 21st Feb 2017