Paesano Italian Food

Originally founded in 1967, Paesano Italian Food puts diners at ease with a welcoming ambience that Emma Goldman of the San Diego Reader said had her “charmed before we’d taken a bite.” This rustic allure also characterizes the restaurant’s menu, which includes hearty servings of italian sausage and sautéed peppers with the kitchen’s house-made marinara, alfredo, or pesto sauces. Before baking a pizza, the chefs layer whole-milk mozzarella onto the freshly kneaded dough, and they set aside time to hand-roll each meatball into perfect replicas of Jupiter’s roundest moon.