Varnelli Pizza Bistrot & Restaurant In Pompei

09/03/2025: Fantastic experience. Very kind staff. Superior quality food, top-notch preparation and plating. Congratulations to them.

19/02/2025: 02-04-2025 Day in the Naples area and then Neapolitan lunch. I don't choose a place by the sea, but a little further away with a sea view. Private parking with approximately 10/12 parking spaces. Externally nice with something to fix but once inside everything changes. Blue tiles, white walls and sea views make you feel like you're at the seaside. They make us sit down and I have an appetizer or fried anchovies with salt and pepper (€9.00). A fair portion with very fresh fish, a dish that I enjoyed through the flavor of the fish enhanced by salt and pepper, fried very well. I continue with a first course Mezza Manica with crustacean narrows, Mazara raw ham, mozzarella sauce and black lemon (€22.00). As soon as I arrived I said wow. I taste the pasta which was very al dente and back with salt. By mixing all the ingredients including the Ristretto that was at the bottom of the plate everything changed. The pasta felt like it was high quality and the flavors of the ingredients were perfectly balanced and I understood the choice to use less salt for the pasta. With every tasting you could clearly perceive the fish, the mozzarella and the lemon and if the pasta had been saltier this balance would have been altered. I conclude with a dessert and take a crunchy hazelnut cannoli with ricotta and pear (€7.00). I taste the filling first and am immediately struck by the flavor of the pear with ricotta. The sweetness was given by the fruit and certainly without any other added sugar. The crunchy well made and decidedly sweeter than the filling but enjoyed together they were fantastic. I enjoyed it all accompanied by a white Falanghina Campi flegrei Agnanum (€20.00). Pleasant, with a delicate body if drunk at the right temperature. Too cold it loses its flavor a lot. Friendly and polite service. The bread basket was very pleasant. Only thing to improve, the coffee. A place that I absolutely recommend trying, which expertly uses excellent raw materials and in my opinion with fair prices. Absolutely worth trying.