by Candice Woo

A fixture on India Street since 1950, when Vincent DePhilippis and Madeleine Stefani first founded a deli and grocery called Filippi's Cash and Carry, Filippi's Pizza Grotto in Little Italy was the first in a chain that now includes 14 locations in San Diego and California.

The restaurant, with its red and white checkered tablecloths and chianti bottles hanging from the ceiling, specializes in hearty Italian-American food; more often that not, there's a line of waiting patrons stretching the block. Eater sat down with Daniel Moceri, grandson of the original founders and general manager in Little Italy, to talk about the eatery's history and that darn line.

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