Al Dente San Diego

Have you dined at Al Dente San Diego? Al Dente serves up traditional and innovative dishes from Sicily and Naples. While their menu is filled with staples from Italy, they've included seafood and unique flavors for an ultimate Italian dining experience! Al Dente is located on Park Boulevard in the University Heights neighborhood of downtown San Diego. A big thank you to Al Dente for hosting us!

The Antipasti, Appetizers

There are several options of dishes to order at Al Dente with additional menus rotating with specials. Their standard dinner menu includes antipasti, salads and soups, pasta, chef's favorites, entrees and sides. The Cozze E Vongole was our favorite antipasti which is clams and mussels served in a white wine lemon butter sauce! They also offer a beef tartare, frittura di calamari, meatballs with marinara, zucchini blossoms and artichokes all romana.

Salads and Soups

Al Dente has an insulate al dente, caesar and burrata caprese for their salads. They also have a lenticchie soup. We went for the burrata caprese and it was very refreshing, light and sharable for 2-3.

Main Courses at Al Dente

We recently went to Cabo so James is all about the lobster now. Once he saw that on the menu, we had to order it. The Fettuccine All' Aragosta includes a half Maine lobster, calamari, shrimp, mussels and clams in a spicy marinara sauce. It was very tasty and packed full of seafood.

They have at least 10 other pasta dishes available and you can add a protein to any item. Some of the other pasta dishes include pappardelle bolognese, gnocchi and spaghetti carbonara. They also offer a cheese wheel. We ordered the Cacio e Pepe, one of my all time favorite Italian pasta dishes!

Date Night In San Diego

Al Dente would make for an awesome date night spot or a place for friends to grab a bite and a drink. They have a beer and wine menu plus daily happy hour specials from 4-6PM. Al Dente is also doing San Diego Restaurant Week. They are offering a 3 course meal for $35 per person.