Vicé
Deep-fried lasagna.
The first thing you need to know about Vicé (pronounced Vichae) is they do deep-fried lasagna, 5 deep-fried lasagna bites served as a starter portion. It’s every bit as good as it sounds. This is not revolutionary stuff, lasagna is amazing, deep fried things are usually amazing, therefore… obviously… why not go for double amazing?
However, the deep-fried lasagna is just the beginning. The menu at Vicé starts with some simple delicious antipasti/frittura and ranges over several further pages of pizza options. Pizza here is classic Neapolitan style. Super light soft pillowy and chewy dough with plenty of toppings, expertly cooked by quality pizza chefs. If you picked up Vicé and dropped it in the middle of Napoli it wouldn’t look out of place, and I would expect it to quickly be given the seal of approval by the locals.
400 Gradi
A lot has already been said/written about 400 Gradi online… and with its status as Lecce’s only super-buzz, world-class, neapolitan-pizza-scene pizzeria I won’t lie; it’d be very entertaining to have a go at bursting the bubble. Somehow it feels like the Juve or the Man United or the Real Madrid of Lecce, and lets face it everyone hates those kind of super clubs.
But the thing about 400 Gradi is that unlike Juve/Man United/Real Madrid - it’s actually consistently good. In fact, it’s consistenly excellent.
Pizzeria La Città Di Pulcinella
You can find La Citta Di Pulcinella at the top end of Via di Leuca, almost as far as Castromediano but still only a 15/20 minute walk from Porta San Biagio.
It's a rock solid Neapolitan pizzeria complete with fake interior Napoli balconies (with clothes hanging from them), check table clothes, and Moretti on tap.