Filippi's Pizza Grotto on Friars Road is the Grantville outpost of a San Diego restaurant family that dates to 1950, when Vincent DePhilippis and Madeleine Manfredi converted their Cash & Carry Italian Foods market on India Street into a sit-down dining room. This location at 10330 Friars Rd serves the 92120 ZIP from a full-service dining room fronted by an Italian grocery and deli counter stocked with imported pasta, olive oil, and cured meats — the same retail-to-restaurant layout the DePhilippis family has replicated across more than a dozen locations. The red-sauce menu runs deep: pizza in traditional and Sicilian cuts, lasagna layered with ricotta and bolognese, linguini with clams, fettuccine Alfredo, shrimp Filippi, and parmigiana preparations for veal, eggplant, and chicken. Torpedo sandwiches built on house-baked rolls and an antipasto salad dressed tableside round out the deli side of the operation, sourcing Italian imports from purveyors on the same Grantville corridor as Iowa Meat Farms on Mission Gorge Road. The wine list runs red, white, blush, and sparkling by the glass and bottle, complementing a menu that has remained deliberately unchanged for seven decades. Friars Road places this location at the western edge of Grantville, within a short drive of SDSU and the east-bound 8 freeway interchange. The dining room accepts reservations and seats families, college groups, and tourists alongside a catering operation that scales for off-site events through the same kitchen network as Bekker's Catering across greater San Diego. Vincent and Madeleine arrived in San Diego in 1947 from Westchester, Pennsylvania, and every location remains owned and operated by original family members of the founders.