Davanti Enoteca Little Italy in downtown San Diego occupies a rustic-chic India Street space that restaurateur Scott Harris opened in 2011 as an outpost of his Chicago-based Francesca's Restaurant Group. The shareable-plates format built the menu around wine-bar pacing — chicken-liver pâté, fritto misto, burrata boards — rather than the single-entrée model at traditional trattorias like Buon Appetito Restaurant up the block. Focaccia di recco — a Ligurian baked flatbread layered with melted cow's-milk cheese and drizzled with honeycomb — anchors the antipasti section as the kitchen's signature import. The wine list rotates Italian and California labels by the glass and quartino, structured for the pour-and-graze rhythm that distinguishes an enoteca from a full-service dining room. A tree-shaded rear patio strung with string lights hosts the restaurant's enoteca-style tastings and seasonal wine events, drawing from the same Italian import network that stocks Pali Wine Co. in the neighborhood. Full-patio buyouts with custom shareable menus and dedicated sommelier service handle the venue's largest private-event bookings on India Street.