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Little Italy Events

Patrizio Buanne Amici Park	Saturday, September 21, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Rock & Roll Avalanche: Billy Idol Music Box	Saturday, September 21, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Bite San Diego: Downtown/Little Italy Rooftop Bar	Saturday, September 21, noon to 3 p.m.
Little Italy Mercato	Saturday, September 21, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Little Italy News & Stories

When the fish is not fish at Café Gratitude

It’s no Hawaiian poke, but when it comes to poke bowls, choose watermelon over tuna

I’ve got a love/hate relationship with poke. The love is based on trips to Hawaii, where a simple poke salad of raw fish, sliced onions, sesame oil, and maybe some chili spice turns out to ...

Josie’s forest sunset from from Nepal, Free People, and Autumn Teneyl

Husky Caleb seemed to match Josie’s blues

Part of my ritual for dropping friends off at the San Diego Airport includes a stop at James Coffee Co. in Little Italy. Tucked away in a transformed warehouse at the very end of the ...

Could be wood frame house in Alabama, but it's El Cajon Blvd. storefront

Why would anyone sing in church these days?

“If you want, I’ll give you a hug,” a tall man with silver hair says to a seated congregant. “I give man hugs,” the silver-haired man says after the two have bro-hugged. It’s noon on ...

Seafood cravings once again met, south of 8

Little Italy joins Tijuana in the growing Supernatural family

Last weekend brought good tidings for fans of saucy seafood sandwiches in the downtown area, namely me: Supernatural Sandwiches held its grand opening in Little Italy. When I first got hooked on Supernatural, it was ...

Tiny rooms in Little Italy

But not for the homeless

On a Little Italy plot where a Victorian house stood for more than a century, construction of tiny apartments is underway. The house, built in the 1890s at the corner of Union and Cedar, was ...