"You can’t miss Gaspare’s. The Richmond restaurant is painted in bright green, red, and white Italian flag stripes for all of Geary Boulevard to admire. Come here when you want to sit at a checkered tablecloth and shovel garlic bread into your mouth while debriefing an eventful weekend. While the pastas are overcooked, you’ll be happy with the thin-crust pizzas with a slightly sweet tomato sauce. You can build your own, but there are also 29 options with pre-determined topping combinations—we like the Gaspare’s Special with fresh tomatoes and melty feta." - julia chen 1, patrick wong