📍 Little Italy, San Diego
54 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 54 Restaurants
India Street's dense corridor of Italian roots and modern California cooking, with rooftop bars and oyster counters spilling onto the Saturday farmers market
Top 10 in Little Italy
1
Juniper & Ivy
Richard Blais's San Diego flagship — the 2014 Little Italy opening that helped redefine San Diego fine dining for a decade. Contemporary California menu, produce-forward, with a di...
92
2
Born and Raised
Consortium Holdings' proper classic-steakhouse throwback in Little Italy — red leather booths, tuxedoed waiters, tableside Caesar, bananas Foster. The San Diego steakhouse that mad...
91
3
False Idol
Entered through Craft and Commerce's walk-in beer cooler — Martin Cate's Polynesian-pop-tiki temple, routinely ranked among America's best tiki bars. Rum program that runs 400+ bot...
91
4
Vinarius Wine Bar & Restaurant
Vinarius is a wine bar and Italian kitchen on India Street in Little Italy, and the near-perfect regard is earned over homemade pasta and a serious list. The menu runs deep — antip...
91
5
Herb & Wood
Chef Brian Malarkey's Little Italy Mediterranean — an open wood-fired kitchen runs the entire dining room's menu, sending out wood-fired octopus, wood-oven pizza, and prime steak. ...
90
6
Bonjour Patisserie
Bonjour Patisserie is a French pastry shop and cafe in Little Italy that grew from farmers-market stalls into a brick-and-mortar location. The kitchen makes its pastries from scrat...
90
7
Ironside Fish & Oyster
Consortium Holdings' Little Italy seafood temple — the famous 1,600-piranha-skull wall behind the bar, oysters flown daily, and a raw-bar program that legitimized San Diego as an o...
89
8
Craft and Commerce
The Consortium Holdings gastropub that put their whole group on the SD map — Little Italy corner restaurant with a taxidermy-heavy interior, a massive back patio, and a burger that...
88
9
Wormwood
A small Little Italy modern-American room with a tasting-menu-optional format — chef-driven, whimsical plating, and a menu that changes enough that regulars return for what's next....
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10
Barra Oliba
Barra Oliba is a Spanish wine and tapas bar on Kettner Boulevard in Little Italy, from one of the owners of India Street's Crudo Cevicheria. The menu draws on the bistros of Barcel...
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All 54 Restaurants in Little Italy
AMICIBAR Caffè + Heritage House
88
Kyoto Coast Matcha
88
Kettner Exchange
87
Davanti Enoteca
87
Morning Glory
87
Civico 1845
87
Ambrogio15
87
The Lion's Share
87
The Crack Shack
86
Monello
86
Pappalecco
86
RoVino Restaurant + Bar
86
James Coffee Co
85
Cloak & Petal
85
Bencotto Italian Kitchen
85
Bottlecraft Beer Shop
85
Barbusa
85
Puerto La Boca
85
Filippi's Pizza Grotto
85
Little Italy Food Hall
85
Harumama Noodles & Buns
85
Napizza — Little Italy
84
Buon Appetito
84
Nolita Hall
84
Prepkitchen — Little Italy
84
Queenstown Public House
84
Mona Lisa Italian Foods
84
Vincenzo
84
Piedra Santa
84
Mimmo's Italian Village
83
Waterfront Bar & Grill
83
The Sicilian Thing Pizza
83
The Casbah
83
Ballast Point Little Italy
82
Kiku Room
82
Crudo Cevicheria
82
Nonna+Zucchero
82
Lofty Coffee Little Italy
82
Music Box
81
Roman Wolves
81
Allegro Restaurant and Bar
80
Ristorante Illando
80
Lala
78
Coco Maya
76
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