Centifonti's Bar & Restaurant in the heart of La Mesa Village has operated at 8365 La Mesa Boulevard since 2005, when the Centifonti family expanded their 1999 chocolate shop into a full-service Italian-American restaurant and bar. An on-site chocolate factory produces handmade truffles, caramel apples, and seasonal confections using recipes the family traces to the late 1800s, a multi-generational craft that complements the tasting-room wines at San Pasqual Winery Tasting Room & Gallery down the boulevard. The kitchen cooks with rice oil across its Italian pasta dishes and American comfort plates, and the bar pours 25 craft beers on tap alongside a full wine list. Twenty-four gelato flavors are churned in-house and rotated seasonally, an Italian-dessert program that deepens La Mesa Village's Italian dining corridor alongside trattorias like Antica Trattoria nearby. The pastry department produces pies, layer cakes, and chocolate gift boxes from the same on-premises factory, running continuous-temper chocolate machines that hold couverture at precise crystallization points for a glossy shell finish.