Michele founded his first pizzeria in 1906 on the current location of Ascalesi Hospital which required the pizzeria to relocate due to construction. The pizzeria was relocated to its current home on Via Cesare Sersale in 1930, which has been named “the sacred temple of pizza” by specialist and journalist.

WHO IS MICHELE?

The man who, more of less consciously, incarnated the philosophy of Neapolitan pizza was a small person and a man of humble origins. He had a sharp look and a mischievous smile; he was an unusual person, particularly for his character, for his life but above all, for the way he worked and appreciated his job.

One of his sons, master pizza chef Antonio Codurro, defined him as ‘an icon of the art of pizza’. Michele was simply a ‘pizza fanatic’, just like Luigi Condurro, another of his 13 children, used to define him.

This was Michele Condurro, the famous master pizza maker and founder of the family of restaurateurs who has made Neapolitan pizza their life’s work since 1870.