Roman Pastas & Neapolitan Pizza in Oakland Park, Just Across Dixie
Craving proper Cacio e Pepe or a blistered Margherita near Oakland Park? Cross Dixie Highway and you're at NapulEATan — Roman pasta classics and Neapolitan pizza built on imported Italian ingredients.
Slow-fermented dough stretched by hand, DOP San Marzano tomatoes, mozzarella di Bufala, out of the oven in about ninety seconds. Worth eating here rather than in the car.
The counter Oakland Park comes for: mortadella with pesto pistacchio and stracciatella, bresaola, speck and prosciutto di Parma, all sliced to order on fresh bread.
Amatriciana and Carbonara built on guanciale — not bacon, not pancetta — and no cream anywhere near the carbonara. Plus the Saltimbocca, if you want something you have not had.
Roman pasta & Neapolitan pizza near Oakland Park, FL
Oakland Park regulars come for the pasta: Carbonara with crispy guanciale, Amatriciana with a touch of chili, and the Sunday Sauce that tastes like somebody's nonna made it. All handmade daily, never frozen.
Pickup and delivery are both a short hop away. Order online in a minute and skip the wait at the counter on Commercial Blvd.
Come Thursday through Saturday and there's live music with dinner, no cover.
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308
Thu–Sat · 12 PM – 10 PM
Sun · 12 PM – 9 PM
Mon · Closed
Roman pasta and Neapolitan pizza near Oakland Park
Oakland Park sits just south and west of us — north on Dixie Highway or Federal and across Commercial Boulevard, and the whole trip is under ten minutes outside rush hour. Close enough that ordering for pickup makes more sense than delivery, which for Neapolitan pizza is always the better call.
Oakland Park has spent the last few years building a genuine food identity around the Culinary Arts District on NE 12th Avenue, and the standard in the area has risen accordingly. We are not in the district, but we are competing with it, and the thing we bring that it mostly does not is the salumeria half of Italian eating — a counter with prosciutto di Parma, bresaola, speck and mortadella sliced to order, alongside a kitchen doing Roman pasta at twenty-five dollars a plate.
For people working in Oakland Park, the practical version is this: the sandwiches travel, the pizza does not. A mortadella with pesto pistacchio and stracciatella is as good twenty minutes later as it is here. A Margherita is not. Plan accordingly, and if you are eating pizza, eat it here.
We are also one of the few places in this stretch with live music that is not a bar. Thursday is Italian, Friday adds Spanish, Saturday is American, and there is never a cover.
Getting here from Oakland Park: about 8 minutes, north on Dixie or Federal Hwy. We are at 2500 E Commercial Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308, with free parking directly out front. See the full menu or order online.
What people from Oakland Park order
Oakland Park leans towards the deli counter more than any other neighbourhood we serve. The Mortadella sandwich — mortadella, pesto pistacchio, stracciatella and arugula — is the single most-ordered item coming from this direction, and the Bresaola is not far behind.
On the hot side it is the Amatriciana and the Carbonara. Both are Roman, both are built on guanciale rather than bacon or pancetta, and the carbonara has no cream in it, which surprises people often enough that it is worth saying twice.
The Saltimbocca is the item most people have not tried and should. It is pizza dough folded around classic fillings and baked — crisp outside, soft inside — and at twenty dollars it eats like a full meal. The Eduardo, with smoked provola and Neapolitan broccoli rabe, is the one to start with. Friarielli is the Neapolitan bitter green inside it, and it is the ingredient most people cannot name afterwards but remember anyway.