Review of Nicolosi's Italian Restaurant

9420 Cuyamaca St, Santee, CA 92071

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Disclaimer: this place is probably really good if you don't also need to be dairy free. I think you can hide a lot under some great cheese.

What worked for me here is a great view on the patio that we could bring the dog on. Reasonably friendly staff. They had a gf menu!

What didn't work: there were two choices I could make due to also needing to be dairy free, chicken marsala and spaghetti with clams and red sauce. I got the marsala. It was much sweeter than I expected but otherwise had little flavor. I kept putting salt and pepper on it. The pasta had a mildly objectionable texture. I've had much better. The marsala on the regular menu didn't come with steamed veggies but with roasted potatoes. I believe those are easily made gf but they weren't an option for the gf version. The streamed veg was done well, but well, it's boring by nature. We were also really not into the music but whatever.

Updated 4 years ago