Mona Lisa Italian Foods in downtown San Diego's Little Italy has operated its dual restaurant-and-deli format on India Street since 1973, extending a Brunetto family legacy that dates to a 1956 downtown original. The attached deli cases hold house-made sausage, imported pecorino, fresh pasta dough, and extra-virgin olive oils—inventory rooted in a wholesale import operation that once provisioned San Diego's commercial tuna fleet, maintaining the same Italian-provisions depth found at Bencotto one block south. A full dinner menu runs from ricotta-and-mozzarella lasagna to thin-crust pizza and chicken or veal piccata, all built on sauces produced in-house daily. The Italian and California wine list is organized by region and poured by the glass, building out an India Street concentration of Italian-label curation that includes Vinarius Wine Bar & Restaurant closer to the waterfront. Third-generation management now oversees private-dining buyouts pairing multi-course Sicilian menus with reserve bottle service from the full bar.