Pair that with a healthful griglia salad - although the vegetables aren't actually grilled, they're roasted. The grilled, doughy wedges of focaccia, smeared with sweet, caramelized garlic cloves and crumbled gorgonzola, could easily become habit-forming. After one visit, I decided two people could easily make a meal out of the roasted garlic appetizer and a small salad, which felt more like a large. While pizza clearly plays a starring role at Pizzicato, what also endears me to the restaurant are the terrific salads, which are ample in size and bursting with assertive flavors. Sheffer, with his partner Kirk Reding, have owned a Pizzicato franchise in Encinitas for nearly nine years. Pizzicato co-owner Travis Sheffer says bring it on, pointing out that the more quality restaurants in the area, the more people will be drawn to the neighborhood, increasingly populated by urban professionals taking up residence in the surrounding condos. When the restaurant opened in April, the owners couldn't have known that the longtime Laurel Restaurant, just a stone's throw away, would soon be transformed into an affordable Italian eatery, complete with a new pizza oven. Part of a chain of gourmet pizza places, mostly in Oregon, Pizzicato boasts that its dough is handmade, its ingredients locally sourced (whose aren't these days?) and its cheeses and olive oil imported. Some of our favorite places are even opening second shops, so do we really need one more pizzeria?Īfter a couple of visits to the new Pizzicato in San Diego's Bankers Hill, I'm here to tell you, the answer is yes. Few among us would be likely to turn down a flavorful, well-made slice of pizza, so it's no surprise that there is a growing number of San Diego restaurants turning out top-notch thin-crust pies with gourmet toppings. Pizza also sold by the slice.ĭON'T MISS: The roasted garlic appetizer, caesar salad, molto carne and barbecued chicken pizzas.
THE SCENE: Not much of one, with basic tables and chairs and front counter for ordering food. THE FOOD: Wide selection of thin-crust gourmet pizzas and generously sized salads.
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