Trattoria da Sofia at 4055 Adams Avenue in Kensington, San Diego is a Sicilian-rooted Italian restaurant opened in 2024 by a team of seven first-time owners from Sicily and Mexico City: Mario Liga, Sofia Lo Cascio, Andrea Carbonaro, Giancarlo Guttilla, Giuseppe Lo Coco, Sebastian Berho, and Franco Mestre. Every pasta on the menu — from crab-stuffed ravioli to hand-cut pappardelle — is made fresh in the kitchen each afternoon before dinner service begins, using techniques the founders learned in their families' restaurants and home kitchens across southern Italy. The full bar stocks Italian wines by the glass and bottle, and the cocktail program features Aperol spritzes and Negroni builds alongside a nightly happy hour that runs through the full dining room and patio. Kensington's natural wine and craft bottle scene supports the Italian program through nearby retailers such as Clos Wine Shop, the boutique wine bar on Adams Avenue that stocks the kind of Sicilian and southern Italian labels that complement the trattoria's menu. The arancini rice balls, braised beef over polenta, and ossobuco represent the heavier Sicilian comfort tradition, while a seafood section built on local catch rotates with the season. Dessert arrives tableside with a made-to-order tiramisu and a rotating selection of Italian sweets, and the espresso program runs through dinner service as a digestivo companion. The dining room balances Sicilian warmth with a modern, minimal aesthetic — wood tables, low lighting, and an open kitchen where the pasta station operates within view of the dining floor. Restaurants in Kensington carry a neighborhood-scale intimacy that fits the trattoria format, and the 92116 ZIP code's density of independent kitchens on Adams Avenue makes this stretch one of the stronger dining corridors in San Diego's uptown neighborhoods. The fine-dining end of Adams Avenue includes Et Voilà French Bistro further west, and Trattoria da Sofia's emphasis on quality ingredients over volume positions it in the same destination-dining tier. Reservations are recommended through OpenTable, particularly on weekend evenings when the patio and indoor tables fill with the LGBTQ+-inclusive crowd that defines Kensington's dining culture.