Alice's Italian Gourmet on North El Camino Real in Encinitas brings Northern Italian street-food and trattoria cooking to a New Encinitas storefront, operated by Carlo and Alice Paoletti, who relocated from Milan with their three children to launch the concept. The kitchen imports specialty Italian ingredients and pairs them with prime domestic beef and local produce, a dual-sourcing model that mirrors the imported-and-local ingredient philosophy at Forchettina on the same El Camino Real corridor. The menu spans carbonara, eggplant parmigiana, chicken piccata, and a build-your-own pasta format where diners select a shape and sauce combination. A covered patio extends the 94-out-of-100 health-score kitchen into an alfresco dining area suited to the corridor's mild climate, and a catering program scales the same recipes for off-site events. The Vietnamese and Italian cuisines share El Camino Real frontage, with PhoEver Encinitas operating in the same commercial stretch. Signature dessert is the chocolate salami, a no-bake confection of dark chocolate, crushed biscuits, and dried fruit shaped into a salami log and sliced tableside.