Scaturchio — Restaurant in Naples

In a previous post, I mentioned that I let my son have gelato 🍨 without me in Napoli 🇮🇹. Of course there was a good reason for that. I was planning on having baba at Scaturchio! As you probably know, there is alcohol in baba, so my son couldn't have any. Baba is a Napoletan specialty. Well, it's also a French 🇫🇷 specialty and a Polish 🇵🇱 specialty. 😅 I read a lot about baba and its origin, and the most common theory is that it's a babka to which Stohrer (a pastry chef in Paris) added rhum to make it less dry for the French king. This was then brought to Napoli by the French and this is where it became popular. Of course I was not there at the time and everybody has a different version of this story. So don't get mad at me if yours differs, that's just the one that makes the most sense in MY opinion. 😇 I like baba a lot for 2 reasons: 1) I don't eat it often 2) it was one of my grand-mother's 🥰 favorites. That said, I think it's very hard to achieve a good baba. You need to find a good balance between sweet and alcohol in the syrup and you need to make sure the dough is moist enough so the syrup travels properly through it, but not too much so it doesn't fall apart. I think this one was close to perfect, if not perfect. 👍 The tart my wife had was not good, though, unfortunately. 👎 Plus it came broken and it was crazy expensive (€6 as opposed to €3.5 for the baba 😳). The total price was quite high, €15 for 2 coffees and 2 pastries, but we sat at a terrace in the middle of the tourist area so that was to be expected. 🤷 The service was kind of slow but correct. Now I need to go back there to try all the other types of baba cause that was just the classic one and they have lots of fancy ones! 😋

Quality & taste: 7/10 Quantities: 9/10 Atmosphere: 8/10 Originality: 7/10 Ratio price / quality: 7/10 Service: 7/10 How I felt...

Best coffee I've had in Italy! My sister and I went there after walking for a long day at Pompeii on our way back to Rome. There are no tables, so we ordered a pastry and Caffè latte each at the bar. Their specialty is the ministeriale, which is a candy with a dark chocolate outer shell with a marzipan-type texture paste inside that tastes strongly of alcohol (rum I think?). Our Fondor tour guide book recommended it, and it was well worth the 15 minute walk from the terminal. One of the staff spoke relatively good english and were very friendly even though we were pretty clearly out of place as January tourists (everyone else spoke Italian). The other pastry we got was also delicious, I don't think you can go wrong pastry or coffee wise and it didn't hurt our college travel budget much (7 euro for the two of us). I would definitely recommend it to anyone...

A complete disaster! I was never treated in such a way. I think this place is spoiled by tourists.. If you read it do not be the next one who will support this cafeteria. It’s just overpriced, the quality of cakes are average but nothing was more wrong that kicking off the customers who just bought cakes and cafés for over 20€ and being said: “sorry, you are not aloud to seat by table”.. They told us to pay extra 10€ if we want to finish eating the cake which took no more than 10 minutes. Anyway, see the attached receipt which is name “service”. This is the price you need to pay for being aloud to seat by their unique tables.. and see the next picture. There is almost no-one there and, what is the best, all locals do the same thing so it is just a tourist scam. By the way the waiter almost shouted like I would...