Buon Appetito Restaurant in downtown San Diego's Little Italy has served traditional Italian dishes from family recipes on India Street since 2003, making it one of the first restaurants to stake a permanent table in the neighborhood's now-dense dining corridor. The kitchen bakes bread and desserts in-house daily and pairs them with a 200-plus-bottle wine list curated from the same cellar that supplies the connected tasting program at Sogno Di Vino next door. Southern Italian seafood anchors the dinner menu — linguine allo scoglio loaded with clams, mussels, shrimp, and bay scallops; grilled branzino; and a rotating catch preparation — alongside hearty meat dishes like osso buco and veal piccata. Fresh-made pastas range from classic spaghetti and meatballs to ricotta-stuffed ravioli, all turned out of a kitchen that shares co-founder Flavio Piromallo's supply network with Civico 1845 further up India Street. A private dining room that seats large parties for multi-course Italian dinners handles the venue's highest-value bookings, from rehearsal dinners to corporate wine-pairing events.