The best grocery stores Campania

A pretty shop, popular with tourists and locals alike, which offers all the best local products of Ischia. Its star product is rucolino, a liqueur made from rocket. You can also buy other liqueurs such as limoncello and nocino (made from walnuts), brandies (grappa, gin), food products (sauces for bruschette, nougats and biscuits flavoured with orange or local wine), perfume and soap. In short, you will find everything you need and bring back a small souvenir typical of the island.

"Charcuterie" and not salumeria: "As in French", says Giuseppe Esposito, the grocery store owner, proudly looking at his hams. On the other hand, in terms of products, it is like in Naples: mozzarella di bufala, dried pasta of all shapes and colours, wines, olives, marinated aubergines, preserves, limoncello and all the good products of the Parthenopian and Campanian tradition. Perfect for shopping in local colours. In case you are feeling hungry, ask for a slice of pagnottiello, a bread dough filled with hard-boiled eggs and salami.

This small grocery store is located in the Sanità district. The Esposito family will introduce you to the world of taralli, the salty cookies eaten in Naples as an aperitif. For over half a century, they have specialized in making this cookie. They come in a variety of flavors, from the traditional 'nzogna e pepe, with lard and pepper, to sweet cookies like taralli with almonds. You can also try their homemade pagnottiello , a bread dough filled with salami and hard-boiled eggs.

Located next to the main entrance of the Umberto I Gallery, almost opposite the San Carlo Theatre, this shop sells typical products of the region, a souvenir surely more appreciated than a new useless magnet for the fridge . Here you will find everything: dried pasta, cheese, good wines, cold cuts, dried peppers, limoncello... Antonio, the owner, will be delighted to let you taste his pistachio liqueur, proudly homemade, or his lemon juice from Sorrento. In summer, the lemon granita is also very refreshing.

The shop is entirely dedicated to the brand created in Benevento in 1860 by the Alberti family. Strega means "witch" in Italian and recalls an ancient legend that made Benevento a gathering place for the witches' Sabbath. The Strega liqueur is obtained by distilling seventy herbs and spices from all over the world, including saffron, and Alberti desserts. Their speciality: nougat, with almonds, lemon or chocolate, but also cakes such as panettone and filled chocolates.

Refined and elegant shop that has been selling Cetara's specialities since 1950: colatura di alici, anchovies and high quality tuna. But also vegetables in oil, squid ink to colour your rice and pasta, tomato sauce, tapenades and vegetable pastes to spread on bruschette, pesto with almonds and capers, flavoured rice for risotto, homemade pasta, liqueurs... The special recipe is always supplied with the products purchased, to try out at home and try to bring a little bit of Italy back in your suitcases

In this pretty shop by the beach, lovers of fish and specialities from the Amalfi coast will certainly find what they are looking for! The shop offers a selection of products from Cetara: the famous colatura di alici, marinated anchovies, tuna in oil or prepared (tuna pâté, peppers stuffed with tuna), bottarga. You can also find products from the Amalfi coast, such as lemons, limoncello, wine and homemade pasta. To be offered as a gift or to be tasted on the spot, as the shop also makes good paninis.