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19 restaurants in Little Italy, San Diego, CA that earn more on your cards

Little Italy has 19 restaurants in our San Diego, CA listings: 15 take a dining program and 4 have a card perk. Most common price: $$ (moderate). Top cuisines: Café (4), Italian (4), and American (3).

19 restaurants

  • Coco Maya

    up to20%

    American · $$$$ · Little Italy

    American Express Gold Card + inKind

    inKind20%Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+10 more

  • appalecco

    up to12%

    Little Italy

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Upside6%

  • Caffe Italia

    up to12%

    Café · $$ · Little Italy

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+10 more

  • Mimmo's Italian Village

    up to12%

    Italian · $$$ · Little Italy

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+8 more

  • Pop Pops

    up to12%

    Dessert/Bakery · $ · Little Italy

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+10 more

  • Quick Bites Cafe

    up to12%

    Breakfast · $$ · Little Italy

    American Express Gold Card + Upside

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+10 more

  • Pappalecco

    up to12%

    Italian · $$ · Little Italy

    American Express Gold Card + Rakuten Dining

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+9 more

  • Bonjour Patisserie

    up to8%

    French · $$ · Little Italy

    American Express Gold Card + Bilt Dining

    Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+9 more

  • Maranello

    up to6%

    Italian · $ · Little Italy

    American Express Gold Card

    Resy credit

  • Herb & Wood

    up to6%

    Californian · Little Italy

    American Express Gold Card

    Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables credit

  • Ironside Fish & Oyster

    up to6%

    Seafood · Little Italy

    American Express Gold Card

    Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables credit

  • Juniper & Ivy

    up to6%

    Farm to Table · Little Italy

    American Express Gold Card

    Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables credit

  • Rovino

    up to6%

    $$$ · Little Italy

    American Express Gold Card

    Rakuten Dining5%
Restaurants
19
Neighborhoods
1
Cuisines
17
Dining programs
14
With a card perk
4

The 3 best cards to bring to dinner in Little Italy

Ranked by what each card earns across this city's restaurants at our point valuations, counting the dining program that pays most at each one. Card credits aren't counted. Rakuten Dining (8 restaurants) and AAdvantage Dining (7) are the most widespread dining programs here, out of 19 restaurants. American Express Gold Card tops the list here on its own dining rate — ≈$6.00 on a $100 dinner before any program.

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14 dining programs that pay in Little Italy

Dining programs pay on top of your card. Join one, link a card, and every meal at a participating restaurant earns twice.

17 cuisines in Little Italy

8 neighborhoods near Little Italy

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Some restaurant addresses, phone numbers, websites and cuisines come from Overture Maps Foundation open data (Meta and Microsoft, CDLA Permissive 2.0; Foursquare, Apache 2.0; AllThePlaces, CC0 1.0). Overture attribution Some neighbourhoods come from Who's On First boundaries (CC-BY 4.0). Who's On First licenses Some opening hours, phone numbers, websites and cuisines are © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). OpenStreetMap copyright

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