Caporivo Opens in Vico Equense: Gennaro Esposito's New Restaurant, September 2026

There's no fixed tasting menu at Caporivo, a genuine departure from the format that earned Torre del Saracino its two stars. Esposito and his kitchen go to the market first, then build the day's dishes around whatever the fish counts and vegetable stalls turn up — a return, in his own description, to the cooking he was doing at the very start of his career, thirty-five years before Torre del Saracino's move. Expect Mediterranean and Sorrentine Coast staples handled with a chef's technique rather than a restaurant's choreography: the emphasis is on immediacy over precision plating.

The room stays small on purpose — 25 to 28 covers in winter, rising to around 30 in the summer months — and prices run roughly €120–150 per person without wine, well under the tasting-menu bracket Torre del Saracino commanded. Caporivo is open for both lunch and dinner, closed Sunday evening, Monday, and Tuesday lunch; reservations go through the restaurant directly rather than through Bellevue Syrene.

For anyone who ate at Torre del Saracino before September 2026, the split is clean: the two-Michelin-star tasting menu now lives in Sorrento's Bellevue Syrene hotel on Piazza della Vittoria, a short walk from Piazza Tasso, while Caporivo occupies the original Seiano tower with a shorter, market-priced, no-fixed-menu format. Michelin stars stay attached to a specific kitchen and address, so they remain with the Sorrento location; Caporivo starts from zero and will build its own reputation from this opening rather than inheriting the Torre del Saracino rating.

For a Vesuview guest based on the Sorrentine Peninsula or staying near Vico Equense, that means two distinct reasons to book with Esposito's name on the door within a few kilometres of each other — a set-menu fine-dining evening in Sorrento, or a looser, market-led lunch or dinner back at the original address in Seiano.