Filippi's Pizza Grotto in Chula Vista dates its recipe book to 1950, when the DePhilippis family transitioned their Cash & Carry Italian Foods market on India Street in San Diego into the first of what is now a multi-location restaurant chain. The Broadway location doubles as a catering source for private events along the same block that includes The Vogue on Broadway, making it a go-to Italian menu for seated dinners and celebrations in the corridor. Guests enter through a functioning Italian deli stocked with hanging salami, provolone wheels, and imported olive oils before reaching the grotto-style dining room — a layout replicated across every Filippi's location since the original. The menu spans thin-crust pizza, baked lasagna, eggplant parmigiana, chicken parmigiana, and the torpedo sandwich — a sub loaded with Italian cold cuts, provolone, and house-marinated peppers. Filippi's fields a full catering menu for off-site events, placing it in the same South Bay event-service market as Baja Tacos & Gourmet Catering for large gatherings requiring volume platters. The kitchen's lasagna layers ricotta, mozzarella, and a slow-simmered meat sauce between pasta sheets, served alongside a wine list of Italian reds available by the carafe — maintaining the same red-sauce-and-carafe format the DePhilippis family codified in 1950.