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San Diego Restaurants San Diego's Little Italy, ripped apart by freeway construction in the 1960s, took awhile to recover but over the last decade has become one of this seaside city's most desirable neighborhoods. Downtown redevelopment, which began in the city's Gaslamp Quarter in the middle 1980s, at last reached Little Italy, on downtown's northern fringes, bringing with it an eclectic blend of stylish condos, funky boutiques and classy restaurants. Today Little Italy is known as one of San Diego's premier dining meccas, with trendy new eateries joining standbys that have been around since the community was a quiet little fishing village.

Considered by regulars as well as some critics to be the crown jewel of Little Italy dining, Indigo Grill was one of the first in the new breed of stylish urban eateries to open in the community when its renaissance began a decade ago. It is still considered one of the best, with master chef Deborah Scottherself a San Diego institutioncreating an everchanging menu of Pacific Rim [b][url=http://www.moncleroutletvip.com/]http://www.moncleroutletvip.com/ [/url][/b] fusion dishes, such as butternut squash soup, wild mushroom fettuccini, alderwood plank salmon and wild blueberrylacquered rack of lamb.

San Diego, CA 92101Open since 1950, Filippi's Pizza Grotto is Little Italy's oldest restaurantand a throwback to the days before the freeway came, when Little Italy was a quiet village of Italian immigrants. The front section is an oldtime "market with crates of salt cod, barrels of Sicilian olives and rows of salamis dangling from the ceiling. In the back is one of San Diego's most popular Italian restaurants, with redandwhite checkerboard tablecloths, candles set in Chianti bottles wrapped in straw, and thick cheesy pizza and specialties, such as linguini with clam sauce.