Normally we try to avoid visiting any restaurants in Valentine’s Day, Thanksgiving etc as these are the worst days but sometimes when you are traveling you can’t avoid such visits. After some searching we found one more upscale restaurant in San Diego which didn’t seem to take part in any serious Valentine’s Day stuff and in addition was one of our stops which we liked a lot when we lived in SD - Cucina Enoteca. Very good Italian inspired food with house-made pasta, pizza etc. It was as good as we remembered it from the old days
Grilled octopus, heirloom tomato, red onion, cucumber, sundried tomato relish, colatura vinaigrette
Italian chopped salad, escarole, radicchio, green bean, cherry tomato, cucumber, provolone, pepperoncini, ceci bean, almond, dill, oregano vinaigrette, rosemary breadcrumbs
Charred hispi cabbage, butter bean puree, chili crunch oil, ricotta salata, sourdough pangrattato, dill
Rigatoni bolognese, veal, pork, lemon ricotta
Short rib mafaldine, mushroom, cherry tomato, baby kale, parmesan
Maple leaf farm duck breast, strawberry jus, rosa chicory, potato, pea tendril, huckleberry
Chocolate budino, salted caramel, vanilla whip, chocolate crumble, cocoa nib tuile
Pavlova, strawberry, passion fruit curd, whipped creme fraiche
Tiramisu, marsala caramel, espresso soaked lady finger, whipped mascarpone, crushed hazelnut
