Via Napoli

Place was empty got seated waited 20 min no waiter or waitress even came to are table. So we just got up and left. What a disgrace of an Italian restaurant and when especially Iam 100% Italian myself and my family is from Naples.

I’ve been here as few times. The only thing I enjoyed (sadly) was the warm bread while waiting for our food!

The worst calamari I have ever had in my life, all salty, I love salty but when it is like all salt and you can’t taste anything else it’s bad, and when the waitress lets you know that that the way it is, and you ask to leave before your, entrée have arrived, got to say not your kind of place, so I suggest you if this place is no good, but if you do show up do not bring the salt shaker with you

Terrible. We used to go here for lunch a lot. Pizza, pasta, fresh bread. Cheap glasses of wine. Just went here for dinner. We ordered the bread which didn’t puff up as promised and was covered in Parmesan cheese. It was barely edible. While my husband still ate his soup, the waitress brought over our entrees. No timing for us to enjoy our courses. I had the shrimp scampi and he had the puntanesca. The shrimp was so over cooked it was rubbery. The sauce on my scampi was nothing more then olive oil. Absolutely tasteless and swimming in oil. I couldn’t eat it. My husbands pasta was visually appealing but eating it you got a mouth full of anchovy paste. Our waitress never even asked how our dinner was. She saw my plate sitting there in front of me untouched. Never even acknowledged, all she did was pack it up for us to go.
Never again.

My family has a wonderful time every time we come here. The food is fantastic for the price and you get a good portion. The service is spectacular and usually on point. Everything is fresh and the focaccia bread is simply delicious. Definitely a favorite. A little place that’s never too crowded, and always just perfect. Don’t go to the Olive Garden, come here instead.

Very mediocre Italian food. I ordered the eggplant rottilini — the eggplant itself with the ricotta and spinach was very good, but the sauce was flavorless and everything was little smothered in mozzarella cheese. I mean, I like my cheese as much as the next person, but this was ridiculous! My pasta-​loving boyfriend ordered the bolognese rigatoni, and he had the same complaints about the sauce and cheese. He came into the restaurant starving, and couldn’t even finish his plate because he disliked it so much. I doubt we’ll ever be back. Even Italian food at a diner would’ve been better than this.

Good solid Italian food. Despite what other reviewers said, we didn’t find the menu to be limited. They had a nice rounded variety. The décor and atmosphere was very nice. The service was a bit slow but bearable. Great bread. The antipasti was excellent, especially the roasted red peppers. The chicken parm was very good with tender chicken, crispy breading and a good sauce. With a salad and app or was enough to share. Ceasar salad was fresh and tasty. Our friends shrimp scampi looked great but had a slightly spicy taste which while good, was unexpected. All in all, we will definitely go back.

Food is wonderful. calamari were a big hit with the kids. Tagliere plate was a nice especially the fennel salami. Our main selections were… branzino aqua pazza and cotolette with arugola salad which were both expertly prepared. Kim our server was excellent. Going on a web search for italian in the area we hit a homerun. Great job!!!

Honestly nothing to rave about, the pizza was okay. I think places in philly need to travel to other states and learn how to make a nice pizza sauce. The sauce didn’t have that amazingly fresh tomato taste. It was definitely fresh, just not as good as I wanted it to be. My girlfriend had linguine with chicken, which she said she enjoyed very much.
If you are very hungry and want something, the food is edible… But it may not fulfill your Italian desires.

It the name of this place Mia Napoli or via Napoli? One will never know, as it was represented equally all over the restaurant as both. My review really is a 3.5. Our waitress was a little rude. Didn’t offer a refill on a soda, but did on wine. The bread was pretty good. I’d eat it again. I just wish it came with oil instead of a butter. As for main dishes, pizza I’d ok. We ordered 2 pizzas: the mushroom with added ricotta and a 4 cheese pizza. Both were over cooked and fair at best. We also ordered the seafood fra diablo. It was perfectly spicy and very good. Also ordered was the chicken Milanese. It was just ok. It came with a lemonchello and arugula salad on top. That was delicious! The chicken was fried (not mentioned on the menu) which was a huge disappointment. Also, there was no side to the dish. Overall, just ok. I might be back.

The atmosphere and service here made a great impression as soon as we walked in the door. Then it just got better. The oven bread was delicious. So flavorful! I came here with my family and everyone enjoyed their entrees. I highly recommend the Italia pizza. But the dessert was the best finale. The tiramisu was perfect.

Disppointing. I was hoping for better.
Ordered salmon with string beans and roasted potatoes. The string beans were the best thing on the plate. I could tell the salmon was frozen when they cooked it. It just had that texture. Over priced for what I had gotten. Bathroom was absolutely gross. Im sorry but I will not return.

we came here after my college graduation with a party of 8 people and it did not disappoint! Our servers were very nice and accommodating and the entrée sizes were huge, I had 3 dinners out of it! Finding the bathroom was a bit confusing, its downstairs and theres a fountain it does not look like another level. I live literally 3 minutes away from here and will return again!

Came here for a quick lunch with my parents today. Our server was really great, friendly and informative. She knew her wines, and helped me pick a nice red wine that I have never tried before. I ordered the veal with wild mushrooms… it was juicy, flavorful and delicious. My mom ordered crab cakes and they were fried, and not the best. My dad had some kind of sea food pasta and it was good. I would of liked this spot more it more if it was a byob. For northeast Philly location, it can really get pricy. If im in the area, I would definitely come by here again.

Ordered dinner from here recently. I wasn’t really a fan of my meal, but I was definitely very happy with the service. They labeled everything and made it all nice and neat and individually packaged so it was easy to distinguish what was what, which was GREATLY APPRECIATED.
As far as the food, I would say I probably wouldn’t order it again. I got the spinaci insalata … spinach salad with chicken and bacon and a bacon dressing, candied walnuts, and more…
The combination of savory and sweet wasn’t really appealing to me, but it normally isnt so I guess I wasn’t surprised. I just really didn’t like that dressing!

I was here a few days ago, I am a foodie and as such look for very unique dishes, but on this outing I was tired from Christmas shopping and to my surprise the level of service was to notch. The seafood manicotti was so flavorful along with fried calimari… this will become my go to spot a quick dinner, great job

I’ve been here several times before and they have always been good. Not amazing but decent… that was until our most recent visit last night. First off, the service is really fantastic. Everyone is super friendly and courteous so I really can’t complain. But as for the food, I was really disappointed.
Their menu seems to have been updated recently and the selection is much smaller. They used to serve fresh pizza dough cooked from their fire/​coal oven as the «bread basket» but last night they only gave us a basket of sliced bread. We ordered a calamari appetizer and the portion was definitely smaller than before. Luckily, the calamari was still pretty good. As for the main courses, our table ordered the gnocchi, lasagna, braciole, and shrimp scampi. The braciole was lukewarm at best, and the meat sauce was bland. The gnocchi was OK with butter sage cream sauce, but the lasagna and shrimp scampi were both bland and unexciting. I’m not sure if they have changed owners or kitchen staff with the new menu, but I was really unimpressed with the food. I don’t think I can go back for a while if at all.

I came back here on a Saturday night and ordered rigatoni in a sage-​butter-​parmesan sauce with grilled shrimp on top which was phenomenal.
My friend had a pasta and seafood dish (it had scallops, calamari, clams, mussels and salmon in it) which was served in a lemon-​garlic white wine sauce which she thought was delicious.
The only reason I won’t up the rating is because their salads are always wilted and soggy which grosses me out. In addition, their service is hit-​or-​miss and the night I was there, our waiter was completely out of it.

I’m honestly surprised how many ppl gave this place 5 stars, I think 3.5 pretty much sums it up. Making it an excellent first date spot… so your partner doesn’t think your cheap (bc it’s not olive garden) but they also don’t expect you to be a baller.
All you really need to know is get the calamari in garlic sauce, get extra bread for dipping, order one meatball… and leave. But if you want the full report… read below. lol
Some highlights of the place: the ambiance and décor is really nice. You feel like you are sitting at a fancy restaurant. They have an excellent wine menu and the staff was extremely helpful and friendly.
Food:
We ordered the sauteed calamari in garlic and white wine sauce to start and they were phenomenal. Another thing that was phenomenal was their puffed out flat bread smothered in garlic and cheese. So basically 15 mins into my meal I had extremely high expectations.
I ordered Grandma’s special as per the server’s recommendation. Which is pasta in red sauce with sweet & spicy sausage and a giant meatball. I didn’t care too much for the sauce, not too much of it, pasta and sausage had no special umpf to it. But this GIANT FABULOUS MEATBALL. Yum. It was the size of my fist, and seasoned to perfection. I’m not even a meatball lover regularly so trust me when I say it was good.
My date ordered shrimp diablo, not spicy and hated it. It brought these little mini clams that had hardly any meat and a handful of shrimp. He didn’t care for the sauce, and actually dumped the awesome leftover calamari sauce on the plate to try to fix it.
I wouldn’t mind trying something else on the menu out here, prices are very reasonable and for me customer service is everything and they were really nice. So go try it out for yourself!

We decided to check this place out tonight since we were in the neighborhood. Via Napoli is a refreshing addition to an area that is void of creative but simple Italian food. (that isn’t over sauced, over salted or over cheesed).
I like the pictures on the wall of the people riding the scooters. (fun but not too cheeky). Our hostess was very friendly. Our server (Mike) was professional & personable. He gave us the right mix of attention and space. Our water glasses were continually refreshed and the plates were cleared in a timely manner.
They have over 20 wines by the glass (from the Naples’ Campania region), most were below $ 7.00. They have a small beer selection. They also have some tasty specialty drinks (Prosecco Bellini, Sorrento Ice Tea, etc.).
They give you a complimentary ‘loaf’ of bread that is light/​airy, very good. For an app we ordered the (5) piece Salumeria & (5) piece Formaggi, we enjoyed that.
I had the ‘Grandma’s House’ specialty (a generous portion of sweet sausage, spicy sausage, huge meatball, escarole in tomato sauce over ribbon fettuccine). Each ingredient tasted fresh. Kate had the ‘Timnallo’ lasagna (pasta tubes, mozzarella, ricotta, eggplant, zucchini & tomato baked in an herb parmesan crust), she enjoyed it.
We finished our meal off with the ‘Pastiera’ neapolitan Cheese Cake (made with ricottta cheese & grain), it was excellent !! Just the right mix mix of sweet with a little tart.
We enjoyed this place and are looking froward to returning to try some of the other dishes. A solid 3.5 stars.