According to Nation's Restaurant News, Italian continues to be the country's most beloved ethnic cuisine. I've fallen out of love and then gotten moony-eyed again several times over the past decade or so.
It's a cuisine that is manhandled, jerry-rigged, misinterpreted frequently, marked by gargantuan sadness-mounds of pasta, overcooked and swimming in sauce. Carbo-phobia made a dent in our collective enthusiasm, but in the past bunch of years we've kept the flirtation alive by focusing on regional Italian.
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The peppers of Calabria, the pizzas of Campania, chickpea flatbread in Liguria, fregola in Sardinia. Oh, and Roman food has been red hot recently. Simona Sarpa's grandparents owned a restaurant in Naples. She worked in Italy and Switzerland before landing in Tampa and deciding to open a little spot using family recipes. They've smoothed things out, Sarpa and chef Francesco Sorrentino working in tandem to offer a very Napoli-like experience.
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It's personal, intimate, charming, homey — the kind of restaurant every Italophile perseverates about while scrolling through iPhone trip photos. You're going to get pizza the wood-fired oven built in Naples, with its puffy cloud trompe l'oeil painting, is too enticing , but a one-of-each approach with all the menu sections is wise. These pizzas are the thin, tender kind with a fat cornicione and charry black speckles all over, their tomato sauce a simple puree of San Marzanos and the cheese either parm or a bouncy fior di latte an Italian mozzarella made from cow's milk.
The flour is finely ground Italian 00, a soft wheat without strong glutens so the finished product isn't super chewy. Balanced, perfectly cooked and tender — it was a textbook version.
The rest of the short secondi list is variations on chicken and veal scallopini; might be nice to have one seafood offering on the non-pizza-and-pasta part of the menu. Viva Napoli has added a short, well-priced beer and wine list, and offers discounted beverages and appetizers from 5 to 7 p. Monday to Thursday. Sarpa is likely to serve you, frequently guiding and explicating as needed. Even if you've never ventured to Naples, Viva Napoli will feel familiar, its menu a lineup of greatest hits.
What makes it a gem is the kitchen's execution and Sarpa's presence in the dining room.
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And so our love affair with the cuisine continues. Contact Laura Reiley at lreiley tampabay. Follow lreiley. She dines unannounced and the Times pays all expenses.
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