CUCINA enoteca Is the San Diego Treat

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • April 5, 2012
We sat under a leafy olive tree. If not for butcher-paper placemats, the cold, metal surface of our table would've sapped the warmth from the bare skin of our elbows. Above us, the strung-up lights flickered on as twilight approached. From our...
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