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Busalacchi's Ristorante

  • Address: 3683 5th Ave., Hillcrest, San Diego, CA | Map It
  • Phone: 619/298-0119

Fodor's Review:

This long-running hit on the fringe of Hillcrest offers a romantic, low-key dining room and a stylish, sheltered patio that overlooks busy 5th Avenue. The lengthy menu zeroes in on elegant, fully flavored Sicilian specialties -- it may be the only place in San Diego offering an insalata di citrioli, a salad of cucumbers, corn, tomatoes, and Gorgonzola. The pasta dishes include familiar favorites, but classically Sicilian is the rigatoni in an aromatic sausage-caper sauce; the stuffed, breaded veal spiedini (on skewers) also is superb.

  • Credit Cards: AE, DC, MC, V
  • Closed: No lunch weekends

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