Noe Valley, San Francisco · restaurant
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.