content: If you want good pizza, you can get it in just about any good sized American city. If you want the best pizza though, you have to go to the source, Naples. Naples Italy is where pizza evolved from a barely recognizable fisherman's meals of warm flat bread seasoned with olive oil and sardines, to what we've all come to recognize as contemporary pizza. A trip to Italy for a pizza may not be in everybody's budget though. \n\nFortunately, you don't have to go to Naples for authentic Naples pizza. If you live in Las Vegas, you can go to Settebello's.\n\nSettebellos is one of only 12 American pizzerias certified by the Verace Pizza Napoletana, an organization dedicated to the preservation authenticate Naples pizza by establishing rigid guidelines for preparation and ingredients, some of which seem to border on the ridiculous.\n\nThe dough can contain only four ingredients, flour, natural yeast, yeast of beer and water. The dough can only be worked with the hands, no rolling pins or machines allowed. The sauce has to be made from Italian grown tomatoes and the cheese can only be fresh buffalo mozzarella. The oven has to made from bricks imported from Italy and heated with a fire fueled only by wood.\n\nIs the result of all these harsh restrictions noting more than artifact and pretense? Is the end product an overpriced and mediocre discus of high falooting namby pandery?\n\nI SAY THEE NAY!\n\nSettebello's is the best pizza I've eaten within the borders of this nation, and the closest I've had to the pizza I had in Naples. The use of fresh ingredients and the dearth of artificial flavor enhancers and preservatives leaves the pizza with a crisp and bright flavor without the bitter acidity of cheap canned tomatoes. The dough has a smokey crunch that you can only get from a wood fired brick oven and the chewy mouth feel that requires manual kneading to develop gluten.\n\nDespite this attention to detail and lack of compromise on premium ingredients, Settebello won't put a hole in your wallet. A pizza will run you between $9 and $12 and while that's more expensive than Pizza Hut or Little Caesar's, if that's what you were looking for, you wouldn't be reading this. If you live in the Las Vegas area, or are just visiting, do yourself a favor and take a detour down to Henderson and give Settebello's a try. If you like pizza, you won't regret it.