About Monello

Monello has one of the best happy hours in San Diego. True to old country traditions, the folks at Monello know that an apertivo (literally, “to open” the stomach before dinner) must include food, so from 3-5:30 pm Tuesday through Friday they serve small bites to eat with each happy hour drink order. Sit on the patio and enjoy a negroni and a polpette (homemade meatball) or an Aperol spritz and a gnocchi sampler, while you work your way toward dinner time.

We recommend you stay for dinner too – the food here is better than most other restaurants in the area, serving traditional pasta dishes, meat and seafood dishes, like ossobucco and salmon piccata, as well as Neapolitan-style pizzas. They have a giant cheese wheel too – a sixty pound hunk of parmesan that they will toss some pastas in, when asked.

Best Parts

  • Try something that incorporates the giant cheese wheel
  • One of the best happy hours in San Diego

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