La Jolla's 16 Italian and pizza listings run from Piatti and Bernini's Bistro on Girard Avenue to Catania on Prospect Street and Piazza 1909 in Bird Rock—wood-fired pizza, housemade pasta, and trattoria dining across 92037.
7402 La Jolla Blvd, La Jolla, CA 92037
+1 858-246-6756
Verified7930 Ivanhoe Ave, La Jolla, CA 92037
+1 858-456-4005
Verified7863 Girard Ave 301 F3, La Jolla, CA 92037
+1 858-551-5105
Verified1237 Prospect St ste p, La Jolla, CA 92037
+1 858-454-2524
Verified7550 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA 92037
+1 858-454-5013
Verified7731 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA 92037
+1 858-412-3108
Verified5518 La Jolla Blvd, La Jolla, CA 92037
+1 858-454-6421
Verified2152 Avenida De La Playa, La Jolla, CA 92037
+1 858-246-6692
Verified7766 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA 92037
+1 858-459-0700
Verified711 Pearl St, La Jolla, CA 92037
+1 858-454-3806
Verified7734 Girard Ave, La Jolla, CA 92037
+1 858-412-5566
Verified2151 Avenida De La Playa, La Jolla, CA 92037
+1 858-551-1221
Verified2182 Avenida De La Playa, La Jolla, CA 92037
+1 858-454-1589
Verified617 Pearl St, La Jolla, CA 92037
+1 858-729-0717
Verified1044 Wall St, La Jolla, CA 92037
+1 858-401-6787
Verified8107 Camino del Sol, La Jolla, CA 92037
+1 858-551-0125
VerifiedPiatti on Girard Avenue has been La Jolla's most reliable Italian restaurant for years, serving rustic pasta and wood-grilled dishes in a warm dining room that fills on weeknights as easily as weekends.
Catania on Prospect Street takes a more modern coastal-Italian approach with seafood-forward plates and partial ocean views, and La Dolce Vita Ristorante on Prospect delivers a traditional trattoria experience that repeat visitors to La Jolla often call their standing reservation. Bernini's Bistro on Girard rounds out the Village Italian scene with bistro-format pastas and salads.
Isola Pizza Bar fires Neapolitan-style pies from a wood-burning oven and is the closest La Jolla gets to a dedicated pizzeria with a sit-down wine list and a full Italian menu alongside the pizza.
Dough Momma Pizzeria takes a different approach nearby with thick-crust and specialty pies, and American Pizza Manufacturing runs a craft-pizza counter format. For a broader Italian meal where pizza is part of a larger menu, Piazza 1909 in Bird Rock serves personal pies alongside housemade pasta.
Girard Avenue is where La Jolla's Italian dining clusters most tightly. Piatti has held its corner on Girard for years with a Northern Italian menu built on housemade pasta and seasonal ingredients, and Bernini's Bistro sits nearby with a more casual bistro approach to classic Italian dishes.
The Girard corridor also connects to Girard Gourmet for baked goods and Harry's Coffee Shop for morning coffee, making it a walkable dining strip that runs perpendicular to Prospect Street and catches both restaurant-goers and shoppers headed to Café Milano further down the block.
Catania on Prospect Street is the Italian restaurant closest to La Jolla Cove, serving coastal Italian with a seafood emphasis in a modern room that catches late-afternoon light off the ocean.
La Dolce Vita is a few doors down on Prospect with a more traditional Italian menu and a candlelit atmosphere that fills steadily after sunset. Both are within a two-block walk of the Cove overlook, making them natural dinner options after an afternoon watching the seals from Coast Boulevard.
Pizza delivery options in La Jolla are more limited than in denser San Diego neighborhoods, but Dough Momma Pizzeria and several of the Village pizzerias handle delivery through third-party apps covering the 92037 ZIP.
For pickup, Isola Pizza Bar and American Pizza Manufacturing both do call-ahead and pickup orders. If delivery radius is the deciding factor, Pacific Beach to the south has a higher concentration of delivery-focused pizza operations that can reach parts of southern La Jolla and Bird Rock.
Piazza 1909 on La Jolla Boulevard in Bird Rock serves housemade pasta, wood-fired pizzas, and a full Italian wine list in a corner spot that has become the anchor restaurant for the Bird Rock dining strip.
The restaurant pulls from both the local Bird Rock crowd and diners from across La Jolla who want Italian without fighting for parking on Girard or Prospect. Lupi Italian Restaurant adds another Italian option in the southern La Jolla corridor, rounding out a stretch of La Jolla Boulevard that gives Bird Rock more Italian per block than most neighborhoods in San Diego.
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