Monzu Fresh Pasta in East Village celebrates three years

Cestino Spaghetti al Tartufo at Monzu Fresh Pasta.

May 28, 2021 2:38 PM PT

To celebrate its third anniversary, Monzu Fresh Pasta is hosting a week of events, including a cheese-themed wine dinner, an Italian brunch and the debut of a new summer menu.

At 7 p.m. June 1, the East Village restaurant will host its anniversary dinner with three courses focused on creative variations of mozzarella from San Diego’s Mozzarella Concept cheese shop, paired with wines from Italy’s Campania region. Tickets are $60.

On June 2, the restaurant will introduce its summer menu. And from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 5, it will host an a la carte One-Day-Only Italian Brunch. Monzu is at 455 Tenth Ave., San Diego. Visit monzufreshpasta.com.

Kragen writes about local restaurants for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Email her at pam.kragen@sduniontribune.com.

Pam Kragen

Pam Kragen is the arts and entertainment editor, as well as the chief theater, dining and opera critic, for the San Diego Union-Tribune. She joined the Union-Tribune staff in October 2012 after 27 years at the North County Times, where she served as the Arts & Features Editor, as well as the paper’s longtime arts writer and theater and opera critic. She is the co-founder of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from San Diego State University and completed fellowships in theater criticism at the University of Southern California and opera-classical music criticism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. And in 2022, she was chosen as one of the fellows in the prestigious National Critics Institute, run by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterf, Conn.