A great place to recharge after a full day at the museum. There was a great selection of sandwiches, pizza, timbales, pastry, and drinks. There’s a section for table service, which was nice as our feet were tired! The staff are excellent! They were happy and helpful, and made some good suggestions for us Canadians who were unfamiliar with a few things. A snack, a pot of tea, we were ready to take on more of the museum!
If you need break while in Naples National Archaeological Museum, there's no more convenient place than the small cafe it offers, the Manncaffé. You can order at the counter and try to find a place to eat with the limited seating available, or sit in the dining room and get full table service. We opted for that, which was more comfortable, but also took longer as only one staff member was attending to all of the tables in the room which were all occupied.
We tried a couple different "timbales" which are variations of fried pasta balls...a few of which offered were vegetarian, but they didn't have them all in stock when we were there.
We had the Timbale Sorrento which had a great lemon flavor to it along with potatoes, along with the Nerano which had zucchini flowers in it (which my wife preferred over the Sorrento.
For drinks I had a Limonata soda which was refereshing (but not the fresh lemonade I thought I was ordering. I need to up my Italian language game.)
My wife had an organic tea.
We appreciated that there were several options for us vegetarians to choose from and were happy to try the timbales which we'd never had before.
The staff in the full service dining room did a decent job but they could have used another server to speed things up for everyone as it was a bit of a slow experience.
You can't beat the convenience, though, if you're already at the museum.
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