Filippi's Pizza Grotto in Santee brings a 1950-founded San Diego Italian institution to the Woodside Avenue corridor, operating as one of roughly 17 locations across Southern California and Napa. The kitchen uses the same recipes the DePhilippis family introduced at their original India Street location, rolling out thin-crust pies, baked pastas, and torpedo sandwiches alongside a full antipasto bar that shares the Woodside block with the grab-and-go pastry case at Honey Donuts. Every pizza starts on hand-stretched dough made in-house each morning and bakes under high heat until the mozzarella blisters, a process that produces the signature charred-edge crust across the chain's entire menu. An on-site Italian grocery walk-through stocks imported olive oils, dry pastas, and jarred sauces for retail purchase, complementing the wine-and-beer selection available through nearby Belvedere Liquor Store on the same stretch of Woodside Avenue. Large-format family trays serve up to 10 guests with layered lasagna, eggplant parmigiana, or baked ziti portioned for multi-generational dinners.