Serving Cañon Street since 1980, Old Venice Restaurant is Point Loma, San Diego's longest-running Italian kitchen, built by founder Karl Walter around handmade pasta, house-stretched pizza dough, and candlelit dining on the peninsula near Sunset Cliffs. The menu crosses Italian and Mediterranean registers—seafood risotto layered with clams, shrimp, and mussels; honey-glazed salmon over seasonal vegetables; chicken Florentine—sharing the peninsula's Italian culinary lane with Pomodoro Ristorante Italiano but angled toward the candlelit, garden-patio end. Three distinct spaces—a fireplace-anchored bar, a formal white dining room, and a twinkle-lit garden patio under a canopy of mature trees—accommodate groups from intimate two-tops to 100-guest events. Live music sessions on the patio run alongside a full bar program with craft cocktails and an Italian-leaning wine list, turning the garden into one of Point Loma's most established evening venues. The kitchen handles its own seafood program—steamed mussels in wine sauce, parmesan-crusted shrimp, black linguine with spicy sherry marinara—operating a raw-to-plate pipeline comparable in scope to the catch-driven format at Point Loma Fish Shop. Full-venue buyouts convert the garden patio, glass greenhouse, and indoor dining rooms into a private event space for up to 100 guests, hosting weddings, rehearsal dinners, and multi-course catered receptions spanning the entire Italian-Mediterranean menu.