Our Take on L'Ebbrezza di Noè
Vico Vetriera a Chiaia is a sloped lane a minute from Piazza dei Martiri, quiet enough at 7pm that you hear corks pulled before you see the door. L'Ebbrezza di Noè started as a bottle shop and still works like one until the tables fill, with shelves running floor to ceiling around a handful of candlelit tables. The name means the drunkenness of Noah, and the room takes the joke seriously.
Owner and sommelier Luciano Di Marzio built the cellar around southern Italy, then kept going until critic Luciano Pignataro named it the temple of wine in Naples. Lonely Planet lists it among the essential Chiaia stops for exactly that reason.
This is a wine room first and a kitchen second, though the kitchen holds its own. Come for a glass at the counter, stay for the bottle Di Marzio talks you into.
Reading the Room
The front room keeps the old enoteca bones, bottles where wallpaper should be and a counter worn smooth by decades of pouring. The back room seats perhaps twenty under low light, close enough that the next table's bottle becomes a conversation.
By 9pm on a Friday the whole place hums at dinner pitch, never louder. Sunday lunch is the quiet local secret.
The Menu, Edited
Who Shows Up, and When
Chiaia professionals and wine trade regulars hold the counter early, and couples take the back room from 9pm. The crowd skews local even in summer, which in this part of Naples says plenty.
Yelp reviewers flag the staff as the reason they return: extremely knowledgeable, happy to navigate a list that runs past most restaurant cellars in the city.
The Word on the Street
- Luciano Pignataro called it the temple of wine in Naples and the city has not argued since.
- Lonely Planet describes an intimate room where the selection is beyond extensive and the staff expert at steering it.
- Tripadvisor reviewers single out the wine pairings at dinner and Di Marzio's table side recommendations.
- Yelp regulars note it works as a wine shop too; bottles to take away at retail prices until evening service starts.
Go, or Skip
- Wine drinkers who want a sommelier, not a list
- A date that should feel like a secret
- Avoid if you want cocktails, beer taps, or a loud night
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