It’s summer season, and at Cesarina, the fascinating, 5-month antique Italian restaurant in Point Loma, the season requires figs, ripe melon, summer season black desserts, mangoes, and extra.
The menu features new dishes, beverages, and cakes, such as luxurious homemade gnocchi with porcini, gamberi, and sliced black muffins, an authentic, housemade tonnarelli cacio e Pepe and an appetizer to send you immediately to a piazza in Rome: focaccia crowned with burrata, figs, prosciutto, basil and a drizzle of honey.
Pastry goddess Cesarina Mezzoni also makes the perfect cannoli, with fluffy ricotta mixed with lemon zest, cardamom, cinnamon, and chocolate decorated with chopped pistachios. Prepared tableside may rival Mezzoni’s stunningly delicate and delicious tiramisù. And because nothing tastes better than unfastened, Cesarina will characteristic a brand new tableside dessert at the house with dinner on the second Tuesday of every month.
Michele Parente is the Dining, Wine, and lifestyle reporter for The San Diego Union-Tribune. Her areas of know-how include the Valle de Guadalupe wine location, style, television, girls’ problems, and insurance of getting old, such as the impact of Alzheimer’s and dementia and her family caregiving. Michele is the previous Sunday and features editor, in which she oversaw profiles and unique projects, including the Legacy of WWII and in-intensity reports on an expansion of subjects. She joined the U-T 2003, supervising coverage regions with blanketed features, fashion, TV, Food, Consumer Health, and Arts & Entertainment. Previously, Michele became the
assistant capabilities editor at The Oregonian in Portland and the Portland City Hall reporter. She spent ten years at New York Newsday as a reporter on the crime, schooling, national legislature, and New York City Hall beats. She was part of a team that gained the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting. A native New Yorker, Michele obtained her B.A. In political, technological know-how, and Italian Literature at UC Berkeley. In 1980, she studied at L’Università di Urbino, in Italy. One of her goals is to make her manner via each of the world’s amazing wine areas.
