Sapori di Napoli Now Open
Decatur Metro | August 29, 2011 | 4:26 pm
Word on the street is that Sapori di Napoli – with its promise of “eat at the way Italians eat, to drink the way Italians drink, and to enjoy the way Italians enjoy…” is now open and serving its much anticipated pizza pies at 314 Church Street. This picture seems to confirm the opening date is today. (Also, UrbanDaddy reported the Monday opening too!)
What are you waiting for? Head on over and report back!
Photo courtesy of Sapori di Napoli website
yes!
That picture makes my mouth water. Wonder if they deliver the way Italians deliver.
On a Vespa?
In a tracksuit?
+1
While saying, “Ciao, bella!”
Gosh! I hope not! Unless you want it the next day…..
YES!!
Just wondering about when they would be opening as I went past on my way to Cakes & Ale this weekend. I will be paying them a visit soon.
please be half as good as Antico and I will be there every day
Jeez, this is an impossible town to both live in AND stick to a diet…
I workout just so I can have treats like this.
Have to put Decatur’s high Walk Score to use in order to compensate! For me, the problem is that the fastest-growing aspect of that walkability factor is proximity to restaurants.
Get in my belly! (after you have baked in a 5 thousand pound brick oven)
I would assume they will be getting a beer and wine license.
They say yes, soon. Two thumbs up, even without.
So happy! Thought this day would never come!
Yum!
Anybody have a phone number?
Tried it tonight. Lovely, fresh-tasting, not overcooked pizza. Nice, casual atmosphere. The A/C wasn’t up to speed yet but then again it’s not always going to be 90 degrees at 8 PM.
What’s the menu like?
Prices?
They’ve not made any of that public yet far as I can tell.
Thanks.
I’m not good at describing menus but I saw about 6-7 pizza choices–they come as whole 6-slice ?12″? pizzas; it’s not so casual that you can buy by the slice. Now that I think about it, they were kind of pricey–$15 -$17, I think, but my husband was paying so don’t quote me on that. There were about 4 salads at around $7-$9 each, pretty big, definitely big enough for 2-3 people as a side salad. I also saw fancy sandwich/sub/pannini type options but I paid no attention. Also some pasta options. Desserts were tiramisu or a nutella concoction plus a daily special but the pizza and salad filled us so we didn’t order. In reminded me of Avellino’s or Little Azio’s in terms of quality and orginality of the food but a different style of Italian from Avellino’s.
Thanks.
Sounds about right.
I like Avellino’s, but the quality and style is that of Antico, not Avellino’s or Azio. And I don’t say that lightly because Antico is fantastic. However, I think Napoli competes with them. I really do.
I thought that the $15-$17 range for the type of quality you get for these pies is very reasonable and should not be compared with pizza delivery quality pizza.
Even at that, however, a plain medium cheese pizza at Mojo’s is $13 with no toppings and IMHO that is complete crap pizza. $15-$17 for Sapori di Napoli is a much better value.
Competes with Antico?? Oh dear. I just gained 5 lbs thinking about it. Can’t wait to try this place out – hopefully this weekend.
No liquor license -so is it also BYOB for the time being?
Oh…oh, my…competes with Antico? I’m sunk! Going over TONIGHT!!!
Don’t know Antico’s or much about pizza but I would agree with other posters that this is really high quality pizza with fresh ingredients. There were a lot of patrons for an opening night. Staff were good-natured despite A/C issues and new procedures. Patio looked like a great option once that beastly hot weather dissipates. Seems to have all the ingredients for success.
All fresh ingredients. Mainly pizza with many variations, including varieties without sauce. Small selection of panini lunch only. Prices competitive for quality of the food.
I have been waiting all summer in anticipation of their opening. Granted, it was only the first evening of their soft opening. I had the Pizza Napoletana, and it was decidedly under cooked, over sized, doughy thick crust with Americanized toppings (canned black pitted olives?). The crust was limp and had odd chemical taste and aroma. I don’t think the oven had been broken in sufficiently to let it out-gas and take on the wood aroma yet. I’m going to have to wait a month or so and try again.
Ugh…that doesn’t sound so good.
Canned black olives…
Assume that is a stock photo, not an actual shot from the restaurant. The pizza oven in the photo looks far to broken in to be new.
We went last night about 9:45 PM. The owners and staff were very gracious and friendly. We had a Margherita which was excellent and very authentic. All of the ingredients were very fresh, and the crust was tender with just the right amount of char. I would have liked to have seen a little bit more basil on the pizza (maybe that’s just me).
The menu looks great, I’m looking forward to trying everything. I hope people “get” the menu and realize that this is not Domino’s.
I’m going to see if they’ll make my favorite pizza from Italy. A pizza bianco with bresaola, tomatoes, arugula and shaved Parmesan Reggiano (toss on the arugula and shaved parmesan after cooking) This is a riff on a popular salad in Italy.
That sounds a bit like the Nucci at Varasano’s (ricotta & mozzarella finished with arugula and lemon after cooking). I prefer Antico over Varasano’s but enjoy both and the latter has some more varied selections. Sincerely hoping SdN is in that neighborhood, quality-wise.
They should add that to the menu NOW! That sounds fabulous. We dined there last night as well and I agree that more basil would be very tasty. But then I’m a big basil fan. The basil was very flavorful and fresh, as were all of the other ingredients. We had the Diavolo. I didn’t think the salami was all that spicy — even our kids ate it up. This could be good or bad depending on your love of spicy things.
Overall, we enjoyed it. It may seem a tad pricey for the size of the pie, but I have a feeling that the ingredients are top shelf, and therefore more expensive from the start. We knew that one pie wasn’t going to be enough for our family, but two would have been more than we wanted to spend, so you may need to do what we did and order an appetizer or salad to round out your meal.
I’ve never been to Antico’s, but I have been to Avellino’s (I won’t be going back there; the crust was like cardboard) and I thought this was far better. This is very different from any other pizza place around here, so keep that in mind — definitely not your typical American pizza — but if you can resist the temptation to compare it to Domino’s or even Zucca (which we love), and you enjoy fresh ingredients and a very good crust, give it a try!
The thin cardboard crust at Avellino’s is New York, Boston style. Lucky for me I like all style pizzas as long as the ingredients are fresh.
I thought pizza was an American creation.
Just came back from a Napoli lunch. If you’ve ever had pizza in Italy, this is the real deal — wood fired oven, extremely fresh ingredients, restraint on the toppings, and native Italians without any visible tattoos.
American pizza eaters may or may not like this sort of thing — especially if you have kids raised on Papa John’s.
I’m a sauce guy, so I loved the delectable marinara flavor — but secretly, I craved the rich, topping-laden experience of a Mellow Mushroom pizza.
All I can say is OOOOOHHHHHH (mouth watering)
Just enjoyed dinner there. Shared a Marg and a Vesuvio (basically Marg with delicious eggplant). Both were great. Very friendly service! Somehow scored a complimentary dessert (with nutella and crema) and it was fabulous. Antico fans will enjoy skipping the drive and I can imagine that the pizza will only get better here as they learn and break in the oven. Overall–lovely, especially for a first week!
grownups liked the pizza, but the kids did not. The dough was a tiny bit under cooked. The whole family loves Antico, and we thought Napoli lacked a little bit of the flavor. Only the 2nd day of business, maybe it will fall into place.
Checked it out tonight….v. delicious! It’s nice to have a good quality pizza place in Decatur. The family running it were super nice and kid friendly!
I think I’ll heat up my frozen pizza now.
Speaking of cardboard…..
Their facebook says they are open for lunch. We want to order takeout but the phone just rings and rings and rings. Are they open for lunch?
They are open at lunch and have some panini just on the lunch menu. Can’t explain the phone thing.
Went and ate there yesterday evening and was very impressed. I think they should get people to pay for the meal after eating rather than before though. The food was really good. Everything tasted just a little different from what you would taste on a regular pizza.
Ate at Sapori last night as well. Clearly the closet thing to Napoletana-style pizza on our side of town, despite the fact they are just getting their feet under them. Dough was light and airy, could have been blackened a bit more for my liking, but not at all soggy, which is sometimes a prob. Oven was up to 400C/750F last night and they feel the pizza will only get better as the oven gets broken in.
Not crazy about the $13 bowl of spaghetti and red sauce I let my daughter talk me into letting her order….but I guess spaghetti is a $13 dish these days
Excellent pizza and tasty salads, too, but expect to spend some money. If I was hungry I could knock off the $15 Margherita pie by myself with not much problem.
Look froward to my next visit.
LOUD!
Painful Pavarotti arias abound. Don’t sit in the corner under the speakers unless you are looking for hearing loss.
We got there at 5:30. By 6:15 the place was full and the only seating remaining was outdoor. There was quite a line by 6:30,
DID I MENTION IT WAS LOUD? Apparently several folks have access to the volume control for the music. We asked that they turn it down, they did, a few minutes later it came back up, and thank goodness, it went back down a few minutes later. And stayed down. We ate in peace.
Salad – tasty – There’s plenty in an order to split between 2 people. I can’t remember the Italian names but I had the one with avocado & nuts. It would have been enough for a meal by itself.
BUT…we came for pizza, so…
We split a Quattro Somethingorother, and liked it a lot. Delicious full-flavored ham, olives (didn’t taste canned to me), mushrooms, artichoke hearts, mozzarella, red sauce. Shaggy, my dinner companion, thought that the crust should be thinner and crispier. I thought the ingredients should have been evenly spread over then entire pizza, instead of concentrated on 3/4’s, leaving 2 slices with sauce & little else. I know, picky, picky.
If all of the service was as friendly, warm and efficient as the woman apparently managing the dining room and seemingly doing everything, this place would be unstoppable. Perhaps its just opening night jitters and the kids haven’t gotten into their groove yet. I hope they will.
We didn’t try desserts, and didn’t see a coffee machine of any sort. Odd.
I liked it, I’m definitely going back soon to try some other menu items.
Here’s a link to the menu.
http://www.saporidinapolipizzeria.com/menu.html
Mangia!