Naples · gelato
Chalet Ciro
A seafront kiosk on Via Caracciolo since 1952, run by the founder's grandson, serving up to two thousand people a day a gelato deliberately richer than the northern Italian style — in a cone modelled on the fried Neapolitan graffa. It is the most Neapolitan thing in this guide and nothing else in the cohort resembles it.
What to order
The conograffa.
What we know
- A chalet in the Neapolitan sense — one of the food kiosks along the seafront, opened in 1952 and one of the largest, with two long vitrines under golden awnings
- Up to two thousand people a day pass the counter, which the owner describes as a concert of people
- The conograffa is its own: a cone modelled on the graffa, the fried Neapolitan cousin of the doughnut
- The recipe carries extra cream, which the owner states plainly as a Neapolitan preference against the northern Italian style
- Third generation of the founding family behind it
- Status
- open
- Address
- Via Caracciolo, fronte Via Orazio, 80139 Napoli (Mergellina)
- Maker
- Antonio De Martino, grandson of the founder
- Opened
- 1952
- Website
- www.chaletciro1952.com/
- Last checked
- 2026-08-21
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