Pummaro

It's been a long time since my last review, but Pummaro is still one of my favorite Italian restaurants in San Diego. Casual, Italian feel, delicious authentic wood-fired pizzas, great salads, unique Italian wines, and all reasonably priced. We've been in twice the last month - once for a birthday party with a table of 22 people, and last night just the two of us. Both wonderful. I love all the salads, the spinach with toasted walnuts and goat cheese is really tasty, as is the verdure. Can't go wrong with any of the pizzas, but my favorite top 3 are the Margherita, 4 Stagione, and most recently - the Veliero w/ San Marzano tomato sauce, mozzarella, pesto, pepperoni, spicy salami, basil and olive oil - amazing flavors! We parked it with the Volpicello which we discovered in Venice. Heavenly. Grazie!

I don't usually write yelp reviews but this used to be one of my favorite pizza spots in SD. Dough wasn't cooked at all. Forgot to remove two things on the salad I ordered. Took a long time for waiter to take drink / food order. 60% capacity. Pizza 'chef' was busy taking pictures of the pizza outside of the restaurant to properly cook orders on hand.

We ordered a margherita pizza and were so disappointed! The crust was soggy and the pizza sauce tasted like tomato sauce! Not much cheese and just an underwhelming bland bite! We won't be ordering from them again as this was our second chance order. The restaurant was busy with what looked like pasta dishes and maybe those are better. There was no one at the pizza counter. It's a warm clean restaurant with good staff!

So... when it comes to the food.. absolutely delicious. My husband had the pizza, my daughter had the risotto, and myself the rigatoni. We then shared a tiramisu. Hubby loved the pizza, I loved my rigatoni, my daughter was a little disappointed with the risotto but it might have been personal preference. I tried her dish and I thought it was very tasty. Tiramisu was hands down one of the best I've ever had in my life... and I've had a lot of tiramisu. The reason for 4 stars instead of 5? The service was good and friendly but a little slow. Ambience is super cute but there was quite a few mosquitos and flies because the doors were open and it was dusk.

Ordered a margarita and formaggio pizza for carry out. Both were mediocre, wouldn't visit again.

This is updated review. Came back last night and thoroughly enjoyed the service and the quality and freshness of the food. We had a light salad, meatballs marinara, sautéed mushrooms and a recommended pizza, the profumata with added burata cheese. Way too much food for the two of us so we boxed half the pizza up along with half the salad and mushrooms. Five enthusiastic stars!

Pizza is terribly soggy. I recommend bringing your own oven if you're eating in and if you're taking it to go put it in your oven when you get home and expect the prices to be $4 more than what the website says. And when you call it in use a translator.

This place is seriously messed up on service which is sad considering their pizzas is pretty good. It is a local place for me. I try to cut them slack but in the last 6 mos of ordering to go they get every 3rd order wrong. Friday night (7/19) I decided to dine in. I waited almost 40 min for someone to take my order even after going to the host and asking twice who had my table. I was at an outside table and there were only 3 other people outside and not even 1/2 full inside .. so not busy. I finally ordered pizza to go by phone from the table and the pizza was awful.

Love this place! Very cozy with nice ambiance with great and welcoming staff. My husband and I are visiting from out of town and stumbled upon this place and are so happy we did! We ordered an Espresso Martini, Diavola Pizza (Napoli style, amazing), Caprese! Delisioso! Highly recommend this place, and they even have takeout available if you're on the move!

Love this place. Authentic Italian food. Service is great too! The dining room is cozy and clean.