La Fornacella

Such delicious pasta and octopus! Best experience in Ercolane.

Pizza Margherita was delicious ! For 7 euros it is a reasonable price. This restaurant is a rare pearl to find. Many local people eat here and so that says a lot about this place…Great service !

Typical neapolitan pizzeria, flexible person as we ask for a pizza for two and they directly said yes. Pizza was good. Tiramisu was tasty. Food price is ok, but the service is 2€ per person wich is significant for ercolano 25% of the bill.

Great friendly staff. The pizza was amazing and large. Great value for 7 euro. They had many other great menu items. Over 50 years in business past down with generations recommended by other locals. Truly feel this is non tourist restaurant and one that is enjoyed by locals.

Great experience. Nice staff. Amazing pizza 😁. And it is not a busy place, so you can find a seat right away.

Excellent Italian restaurant. We had the gnocchi, pasta Siciliana, pasta pomodoro and a steak dish. All EXCELLENT. Great place to go after visiting Herculaneum. One of the best tiramisu I have ever had. House red wine was good too. We will be back.

We were staying in Ercolano for a few days and after getting off the train, we decided to get some lunch. This is about 2 minutes from the train station. I know they always say go off the main path for good food. But this food was incredible! Seriously, one of my favorite pizzas during our trip to Italy was here. I couldn't believe that we were the only ones in there. We ordered two pizzas and two glasses on wine. The owner took our order and came back and said 10 euros for two glasses or 12 for the whole bottle. Not many people would do that, because if we ordered more glasses after the first, thats more money. Great food and great people!

I had a lovely meal here with my family, I recommend sitting on the undercover patio! It was great fun watching the world go by especially seeing some of the crazy Italian driving! 🤪

Brilliant value for money, food was really tasty and the staff were really welcoming and spoke good English.

Really enjoyed our meal here, good value and well prepared. A kind and friendly waitress and did not feel like a tourist trap. Would have preferred wine by the carafe. Would recommend for a good meal.

I had an ortolana pasta which was one of the best (if not, the best) pasta I've ever had. Well cooked with juicy and flavoursome sauce and veg. Would've stayed there longer if I had time. Good service too and didn't have to wait too long for food despite being relatively busy.

The pizza is the best I have tasted in all Italy so far. In two days we tasted 4 different pizzas and every single one of them was perfect.. great service.. highly recommend

Thry deliver their promise. Tasty food, a waiter out of a Fellini movie, good prices!

Great place to spend time! Not if you look for fancy, but if you look for truly Italian place to eat. Hosts barely speak english, table cloth is paper, but that is how you know you eat where locals do! Show you loved it and you will feel loved back! We do recommend highly!

I visited this place with my wife. We chose the daily special, which happened to be octopus and spaghetti. I have to say this was the best octopus I've ever had! Fresh, very delicious and not chewy at all. The waitress was kind, although her English wasn't strong. All in all, it was a great experience, I recommend this place.

We stopped in here on our way to Herculaneum for lunch. Excellent food and reasonable prices. The people were really nice.

Honestly the best pizzas we’ve ever had (and we’ve had many) and very reasonably priced too (plus nice draft beer). So glad we opted for this restaurant after visiting Herculaneum, rather than any of the more pushy ones across the road. Really looked after us too and our toddler without any fuss and absolutely none of the hard sell that all the other places were pushing. Just had to recommend it.

Excellent food at a lower price than surrounding restaurants. Freshly prepared and delicious. Large portions. Canaloni.

Back from my trip to Italy for a couple of weeks now, but I still remember this place. We visited twice and were 100% satisfied with both the food and service. The catch of the day fish was grilled to perfection and its combination with tomatoes, capers, garlic and olives makes my mouth water as I'm writing this review:-) Very generous portions, too, both the starter and the main. Highly recommended!

Went in after a morning on Vesuvius working up an appetite. Excellent food. We had the shellfish starter to share between three. Pizza and spaghetti vongole for mains. Very reasonable price for it's location with good service.

The place was awesome, clean, fast service and the food was delicius!