Pasticceria Poppella — Restaurant in Naples

So I finally made it to the famous Poppella, ready to be swept off my feet by sugary greatness. I had dreams. Hopes. A camera roll waiting for pastry content.

The pistachio pastry? Delicious. Creamy, decadent, and honestly the only reason this review isn’t just one long sigh. If you’re a pistachio person, that one’s worth the hype.

But then came the baba… and folks, I don’t know what went wrong, but it tasted like a wet muffin that lost its will to live. Somehow soggy and dry at the same time? Like it took a swim in syrup and came out confused about its identity. In Naples—where babas are a religion—this one felt like sacrilege.

Cute place, nice staff, glad I tried it… but would I go back? Probably not. There are just too many pastry gods in this city to settle for a soggy muffin pretending to be a baba.

Final verdict: Go once, try the pistachio, and avoid the baba unless you’re into emotionally unstable...

The Pastry and the Snowflake

The traditional bread-making system underwent an initial evolution process in 1960: in fact, alongside the leavening of bread, the offer of “taralli 'nzogna e pepe” was added. With the passing of the baton from Salvatore to Ciro, the gastronomic offer is enriched with the best desserts of the Neapolitan tradition, identifying the Poppella brand as a synonym of quality and goodness. The consecration, however, took place in 2015 thanks to Ciro's intuition to create a sweet that could be good, simple and, at the same time, cheap. The laboratory then produces a white cream with a delicate consistency, based on sheep ricotta and fresh milk: the ideal filling for soft, light-tasting brioches. Thus was born the "snowflake", the cream dessert covered with icing sugar that drives all...

Just walked out of the Galleria Umberto and stumbled upon this Pasticceria by merely accident. It looked busy and we love to taste local specialties. So we got in an bought their specialty, the "Fiocco di Neve di Poppella". The "snowflake" is filled with sheep ricotta and fresh milk. What sounds simple on paper is in reality nothing short of amazing. What a divine little dessert. Be it Classic, chocolate or pistachio. Liked it so much we headed right back in to get another half dozen. Only 2 Euros a piece.

There's a line, but it's moving very quickly. And definitely worth it. A great new discovery - amazing. They also got a whole load of other desserts which we didn't try (yet). But the Fiocco is the one that everyone's coming for. Excellent and highly...