Restaurants

Volcanoes might wreak disaster every millennium or so, but on a day-to-day basis they also guarantee the most fertile of soils. Wine, olives, vegetables—Naples and environs produce prize specimens, and in the cases of mozzarella and pizza can claim pride of origin. And, of course, there's the fruit of the sea, from the tiny and taste-packed anchovy to swordfish nearly a table long. Nowhere does the pride in tradition show more clearly than at Pompei’s Il Principe. The restaurant's menu is historically accurate and the marvelous dishes served here hark back to the era when Vesuvius was still the intact Monte Somma, the abode of the wine god Dionysus, whose image fittingly graces the wine list.