Bellanico is a rustic Italian restaurant in Oakland, CA owned and operated by husband and wife, Chris Shepherd and Elizabeth Frumusa. Bellanico is a little neighborhood gem offers unmissable house-made pasta plates paired with organic, biodynamic, and sustainable Italian wines. Shepherd and Frumusa cure all of their own salumi in-house and freshly make all bread and pasta. Stop in to try one of Elizabeth’s specially-curated flights of Old World wines or to admire their creative use of flavorful seasonal California produce.