Mister Gastro'

££££ │ Takeaway Pizza, Arancini & Fritti, Soft Drinks & Beers

Lunch & Dinner │ Directions & Opening Times on Google

The pizza’s ok here, but the best thing I ate by a mile was an arancino, and that’s what 75% of the people queued up were asking for too, it was banging.

I’ve only been once to Mister Gastro but it’s properly old school. I was served by the Nonna, who was still on the till, and not taking any shit from anyone. Grandson was on the fried section (or he was at least calling the old lady Nonna) and I’d guess at a couple of parents/uncles and aunts running the pizza section. It’s ancient inside, with an old style wood oven (not one of the fancy new Neapolitan space ship things), old school tiles, just well trad basically.

The arancini come absolutely packed with ham, good and moist inside and crispy on the outside. You don’t need to eat much else if you’ve had one of those (like you could get a pizza to share between three/four and an arancino each and I’d say it’d be perfect). There’s also lots of other friend bits and pieces around that I didn’t have time to try but would definitely be worth getting a selection of. In general, the Salantini excel particularly in fritti more than pizza, and that’s definitely the case in Mister Gastro’.

It’s on Via di Leuca, a good way up (about 15 minutes up from Porta San Biagio), and it’s easy to miss, so check it out on google or something first to make sure you don’t walk past it.