Operating on North Harbor Drive since 1990, Pizza Nova in Point Loma, San Diego fires hand-stretched dough in a wood-burning oven from a dining room overlooking San Diego Bay, minutes from Shelter Island. An exhibition kitchen puts the dough-stretching and oven work on full display while a crew—many on staff since the mid-nineties—runs the line through lunch and dinner, a retention rate that reflects the consistency behind the complimentary garlic rolls the restaurant has become known for across the peninsula near Sunset Cliffs, complementing the classic Italian-Mediterranean menu at Old Venice Restaurant on Cañon Street. The Italian-Californian menu goes well past pizza into fresh-made pastas, grilled seafood, and specialties like salmon crostini and BBQ chicken flatbreads, covering a culinary range that few counter-service Point Loma restaurants attempt. A full bar pours rotating San Diego craft beers on tap alongside an Italian-leaning wine list, anchoring a waterfront happy hour program with bay views. An upstairs banquet room seats 30 inside with overflow for 50 on an adjacent patio, giving the North Harbor Drive location private-event capacity that most pizza operations in Point Loma cannot match—a seated-dinner format that Jimmy's Famous American Tavern handles from the American gastropub side of the harbor. Full-menu catering delivers the wood-fired pizza, pasta, and specialty programs to off-site events with trained staff, scaling the exhibition-kitchen output into multi-course packages for corporate buyouts and private celebrations.