Neapolitan art and Okuda art.
Today we know that Neapolitan pizza is special. Not only special, it is intangible heritage of humanity according to UNESCO. It is a delicacy of gods, unique, because Not all pizza is Neapolitan pizza. Y Antonio Belardo, Neapolitan, based in Barcelona, was clear about it when he opened his first store in Barcelona "in April seven years ago".
“I wanted to offer a different producer, with a quality that for me is the best, that was not seen outside of Italy or outside of Naples”, account by phone. And he made it very clear what product that was from the name of the place: ** NAP, an acronym for Neapolitan Authentic Pizza (Authentic Neapolitan Pizza).**
Heritage pizzas only come out of a Neapolitan oven.
“We are not an Italian restaurant, because we don't have pasta, we are a pizzeria because we give pizzas and some specific starter”, he says. Belardo was determined to bring to Spain the same product and the same experience that is eaten and lived in Naples. “We are used to eating pizza several days a week there. The families go quite a lot because you don't have to fight with the budget you have”, he says.
Therefore, it was not only brought flour and tomatoes that make the recipe of the capital of southern Italy unique. The wood oven, Of course, it was also irreplaceable: “It is the only one that can be set at a very high temperature so that the pizza is done very quickly in just the right amount of time so that the mozzarella does not melt too much,” he explains.
But, in addition, and this is the most important thing and what sets them apart from other pizzerias: at NAP they also reproduce the original price of this universal heritage and the pizzas range from five euros for the marinara or the margarita without reaching 10 when they add speck and truffle.
Okuda's art stands out in the new Chamberí NAP.
After succeeding with this formula in Barcelona (with two premises), Belardo jumped to Madrid with a friend of his, Fernando Herreros, with whom they started in a pizzeria in Lavapiés and now they have just opened the second in the traditional neighborhood of Chamberí. If in these years of experience they have been improving and evolving in service and offer, they have also done so in the decoration of their premises.
Both in Lavapiés and Chamberí they had the hand and the colorism of the street artist Okuda. “We liked the idea of bringing together two concepts: street food, because it is fast, good and cheap; and the street art”, Antonio Belardo says.
Tomato and flour traveling from Italy.
Both premises were designed by the designer Cecilia Moretti that she drew on the minimalist simplicity of good Neapolitan pizza. The one in Chamberí is a place with straight, simple lines, white walls that leave space and prominence to the Okuda's colorful mural and a three-dimensional mask that seems to watch over the wood-fired oven from which pizzas can come out at all hours on weekends.
Street food + street art.
WHY GO
Because now that we have finally learned to distinguish and enjoy authentic Neapolitan pizza, you have a new place in a very central neighborhood of Madrid. The best of all? Its price.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
If seeing Okuda's murals while you eat doesn't seem quite extra...
Address: Calle Cardenal Cisneros, 38 See map
Telephone: 91 066 53 53
Schedule: From Monday to Friday from 13:30-16:30 / 20:00-00:00. Weekend: 13:30 to 00:00
Half price: €10