Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 2:00 AM - 5:00 AM ยท La Ciccia, Noe Valley, San Francisco
La Ciccia hosts a wine dinner featuring Mastrojanni's Montalcino wines paired with the restaurant's Sardinian menu. Export manager Guido Dispenza and wine buyer Paul Chung guide the tasting.
An intimate, family-run Sardinian restaurant in Upper Noe Valley, with a warm dining room, a menu written in the island's own dialect, and a 170-bottle wine list featuring an entire section devoted to Sardinia. The malloreddus (semolina gnocchetti in slow-cooked pork sugo with pecorino sardo) is worth returning for, while the spaghetti with bottarga and spicy garlic oil makes a compelling case to skip mainland Italy altogether.
Baby octopus slow-stewed in spicy tomato sauce. Bold and deeply savory.
Fresh spaghetti in spicy garlic oil finished with shaved cured fish roe.
Sardinian gnocchetti in slow pork sugo with aged pecorino sardo.