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Buon Appetito Review
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Buon Appetito
- Address: 1609 India St., Little Italy, San Diego, CA | Map It
- Phone: 619/238-9880
- Price range: $-$$
- Cuisine: Italian
- Location: Little Italy
Fodor's Review:
The booming Little Italy restaurant scene includes this charmer serving old-world-style cooking in a casual but decidedly sophisticated environment. The young Italian waiters' good humor makes the experience fun. Choose a table on the breezy sidewalk or in an indoor room jammed with art and fellow diners. Baked eggplant all'amalfitana, in a mozzarella-topped tomato sauce, is a dream of a dish, and in San Diego, tomato sauce doesn't get better than this. Consider also veal with tuna sauce, fusilli pasta in savory duck ragout, hearty seafood cioppino, and expert osso buco paired with affordable and varied wines.
- Credit Cards: AE, MC, V
Member Reviews & Ratings:
Sun Dried Tomatoes?
Posted by hboswort from San Diego on 4/7/08
I took my wife to Buon Appetito for her birthday, based on recommendations from her friend and from this site. I ordered Linguini Boscomare - Linguini with shrimp, scallops, and sun dried tomatoes. The 5 shrimp were big and good. The scallops were miniscule pieces, maybe 10 of them about 3/8 inch across. Not even sure the little white things were even scallops. My main complaint is the sun dried tomatoes. They were salty, chewy little chunks I assume were sun dried tomatoes - No tomato taste whatsoever. I expected sun dried tomatoes that taste like sweet little dried tomato morsels. They ruined the dish. The place is very crowded and noisy, but the atmosphere is pleasant and waiters are friendly and attentive. By the way, my wife had shrimp on spinach. She liked it. I tried the vegetables that came with her shrimp and spinach - broccoli and carrots with no flavor. May have been steamed and under heat lamp a long time.
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