Pizzeria Di Matteo

The window is why Di Matteo is famous: a fried pizza or a frittatina in paper, eaten on the street between sights. Dissapore's 2022 ranking of the city's fried pizzas put Di Matteo tenth, with the completa (ricotta, cicoli and pepper) at €6, and called the display window straripante, overflowing.

The same window is the problem. The 2024 reviewer's fried starters were, in her words, too old to be served, and the staff explained that sitting in the window does that. At the table you get a list of twelve margheritas from €5 to €9 and about thirty other pizzas. She found the fried pizzas the best thing she ate.

The practical advice: if you buy from the window, ask for something just out of the oil, or watch what comes out and point.

Dissapore's reviewer took a table of six on a June evening in 2024. The order was two trays of mixed fried starters and a round of pizzas, with a tuna pizza that arrived swimming in oil and mozzarella water. The bill came to €101. When she complained at the cash desk about the fried food, the cashier took it off, for a discount of €4, leaving €97 for six. Her conclusion was a question: what happened to the old pizzerias of Via dei Tribunali?

One visit is one visit. But it matches the shape of the problem: a place that sells a lot of fried food to passers-by, some of it waiting in a window, and a dining room that is no longer cheap.

• Sorbillo, Via dei Tribunali 32: a €5.50 marinara and a €7 margherita, with a queue.
• Zia Esterina Sorbillo, Via dei Tribunali 35: the same family's fried-pizza counter.
• La Masardona: the benchmark fried pizza, €6 at the original near the station, if you are heading for a train.

For the history of the dish and where else to eat it, see our pizza fritta page and the cheap eats guide.

Via dei Tribunali is the spine of the Centro Storico, and Di Matteo is on our decumani walk. Inside, you pay downstairs at the cash desk on the way out. The 2024 review describes the dining room as plain and unchanged in a decade, which some will like.

We could not open the pizzeria's own website, which blocks automated visitors, so every price on this page comes from a dated review. Check the board before you order.