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Best of 2001: Best Waffle Sunday Brunch

Caffe Italia 1704 India Street, Little Italy 619-234-6767 There's something about Little Italy on a Sunday morning. All the faithful pour out of Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic church into the sunshine and make ...

Condos Invade Little Italy

Ten years ago, construction was completed on the Rob Quigley-designed La Pensione Hotel, which sits at the intersection of India and Date Streets in Little Italy. The four-story hotel, recalls Quigley, was "by far the ...

Best of 2000: Best Place To See A 1300-Pound Fish

Squidco 1730 Kettner Boulevard, Little Italy (619) 238-0909 One thousand three hundred and seventy-six pounds, to be exact -- and there's a 1294-pounder, to boot. You wouldn't believe the size of the aquarium this fishing-supply ...

Best of 2000: Best Spitinis

Pete's Quality Meats 17421/2 India Street, Little Italy (619) 234-1684 Sicily used to be known as the "Breadbasket of Europe." They exported grains all over the Mediterranean. Then came countless invasions, poverty, until their only ...

Best of 2000: Best Italian Grocery

Mona Lisa 2061 India Street, Little Italy (619) 239-5367 This market and deli, owned and operated by the Brunetto family for 26 years, is small but full of culinary gems. The delicase shows off mozzarella ...

Best of 2000: Best Gelato

Gelato Vero Caffe 3753 India Street, Little Italy (619) 295-9269 Gelato Vero Caffe's gelato (Italian ice cream) is denser, creamier, and tastier than all-American ice cream. Even "gourmet" ice creams don't come close to the ...

Best of 2000: Best Belly Dancing

Urban Tribal Dance Company Gargoyle Gallery 1845 India Street (at Fir), Little Italy (619) 234-1344 Exotic and hypnotic, the Urban Tribal Dance Company dresses in folkloric costumes of full skirts and pantaloons, turbans, scads of ...

Best of 2000: Best Cheap Barber

Vince's Barber Shop 2030 India Street, Little Italy (619) 239-0966 Vincenzo Bruno moved to San Diego from Sicily in 1946 and has cut enough hair to send his children to college, see them become successful, ...

Accused Pedophile Priest Sets Up Housekeeping in Little Italy

Why is Roman Catholic priest Rudolph Kos, a.k.a. Rudy Edward, a.k.a. Father Rudy, whom a Dallas jury found liable for sexually abusing 11 boys, able to live without supervision near an elementary school in downtown's ...