Restaurant Bella Napoli di Raffaele, Italian restaurant in Poble-sec, Barcelona, Spain.
Restaurant Bella Napoli di Raffaele is an Italian restaurant in the Poble-Sec neighborhood of Barcelona, focused on Neapolitan cooking with pasta and wood-fired pizzas. The dining room has round tables and an open kitchen, giving guests a direct view of the cooking area.
The restaurant opened in 1993 and was one of the early places in Barcelona to focus on authentic Neapolitan cooking. It has remained a regular meeting point for Poble-Sec locals for more than three decades.
The kitchen follows Neapolitan pizza-making traditions and uses ingredients sourced directly from the Naples region. Guests who watch the open kitchen can see the dough shaped by hand before going into the wood-fired oven.
Booking ahead is recommended, as the place fills up quickly on weekends and in the evenings. If you are coming with a larger group, it is worth securing a table in advance since seating is organized around round tables with limited capacity.
The restaurant serves its pizzas with a soft, slightly raised crust that is typical of the Neapolitan school and quite different from the flat, thin style found in many other pizzerias across Barcelona. This style requires only a short time in the wood-fired oven at high heat, which gives the dough a soft, almost chewy center.
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