Stritt Stritt — Restaurant in Naples

It was… nice. A bit better than average but not, to me, at all worthy of the review hype. Perhaps a case of over-promising through marketing.

The sauté of seafood was obviously very fresh and that was good. It was just mussels and clams but they were good mussels and clams and the lightly fried bread sitting underneath soaked up the broth. Good start. But the ziti genovese seriously lacked beef. Lacked beef to the point where it resembled just a thick, lukewarm French onion soup over slightly overdone pasta. It had a single small cube of meat served. Neapolitan food comes from a rightly proud tradition of making great food out of inexpensive ingredients. But this was so sparse it was just disappointing. And it wasn’t at working-class food prices. Baccalà alla neapolitana was more generous, warmer and tasty.

Service was very patchy. A warm welcome and good service for antipasto and primo but that was followed by over 20 minutes of waiting after my primo was finished, with me clearly ready, until I had to signal a waiter over to ask for a menu. Catching their eye proved very difficult. They were busy taking payments and clearing tables but it’s not ok to leave a paying, obviously waiting customer feeling completely abandoned. Then, menu in hand, another long wait and eventual eye-catch signal for someone to come over so that I could order secundo. I asked for that and the waiter was off before I could ask for another glass of wine with the same breath. I know how hard waiting staff work, having worked in hospitality myself, and I don’t publicly criticise easily, but some of the staff, who obviously work hard, deserve better support from others. Perhaps a new system of allocating a waiter to each table would work better.

Side note - I don’t at all understand the advertised reference to street food. This is clearly a ‘normal’ restaurant with ‘normal’ menu options. Perhaps I’m missing something, perhaps lunch service is different, or perhaps it’s that over-reaching marketing...

On our last day in Italy we decided to eat out in Stritt that we found on Google with great reviews. So we got there as a group of 4 with a reservation, everything goes well until the moment we started eating our Caesars salad, I noticed something was not going well and my worst fear came true, there was a small piece of RAW chicken (and as you can see in the photo it was Completely RAW) inside our salad. I kindly and quietly (so I don’t make a situation out of it in a restaurant full of people dining) asked for the waitress and informed her about the situation to which she replied “I’m sorry for this, but It’s not raw it’s just not well cooked, would you like another salad?” ?????!!!! It was completely raw and everyone knows what could have happened had it ended up in my stomach. Anyway, a woman that (I think she was the supervisor) didn’t speak English repeatedly said how much sorry she was for this mistake. The restaurant did the least they could, they didn’t charge us the salad and they offered coffee and limoncello to which we kindly declined. We didn’t ask for anything we paid for our 4 plates + extras and left. I haven’t heard or seen anything like that before and they should probably change the way they manage their kitchen. Where I come from had something similar occurred the table would be on the house, especially when we didn’t make a deal out of it, that I really felt I should have. The fact that it wasn’t made me think that the owner was not present and that’s why I am writing this review ( for the owner).

I still rate with 2 stars since everything else was great, the supervisor was super friendly, the fresh fish, the beef stake were of excellent quality and taste.

The purpose of negative reviews are to make restaurants better and avoid similar situations in the future.

Disclaimer: By no means am I trying to damage either the reputation or any employee of Strit Strit, I just want to make sure that the owner is aware of the...

Finding a restaurant in Napoli is overwhelming since there’re so many options all over the city, but I think we made a very good choice. I grew up by the ocean so my bar for seafood is high. This place nailed it. It’s on a quiet side street and we were seated in an enclosed outdoor space. The two of us ordered more than enough food for three people - fried anchovies, seafood risotto (for two people), and the seafood soup. Everything was seriously good.

Our favorite is the seafood soup. When you have fresh seafood, you don’t need too much seasoning because it will overpower the original flavor of the seafood. The seafood were cooked perfectly and they did a good job balancing the seasoning and flavor. The soup is a little spicy, which I didn’t expect but liked it. The soup was so delicious I had to soak it up with bread even if my stomach was exploding. It’s a lot bigger and tastier than the other place we went the day before.

The anchovies have a very light batter, fresh but could be a little more crispy. The seafood risotto was massive, they split it in two for us (the picture is showing one person’s portion), and I’ve never seen so many seafood in one dish. It had twice as many as seafood as the rice and we couldn’t even finish it. The only downside was that the seafood was cooked a little too long, especially the mussels. If they were like the ones in the soup that’d be perfect.

The owner(?) is a very nice lady, chatting with every table and made everyone feeling comfortable. She’s also very sweet when I was practicing my broken Italian with her. The other two girls served us were...