Neapolitan pizza bar and Italian restaurant at 7734 Girard Ave in La Jolla's Village, 92037, from chef-owner Massimo Tenino. Isola Pizza Bar is built around 96-hour fermented dough fired in a wood-burning Neapolitan oven, and the Girard Avenue location sits a block from Cafe Milano on Pearl — the two representing opposite ends of the Italian spectrum, one all about the dough and the other about family-recipe veal and gnocchi. The Gamberi pizza — shrimp, burrata, cherry tomatoes, basil — is the standout alongside antipasti and housemade pastas. Named for Tenino's grandmother. A genuinely Neapolitan approach to pizza in the middle of La Jolla Village — while New York–style devotees who want their crust with a proper crackle head to Pizza On Pearl in Bird Rock.