When Italian-born executive chef Donato Scotti decided to open a second venue to complement his home-country regionally inspired four-year-old Donato Enoteca in Redwood City, he settled on Old Oakland.

His new restaurant, Desco, which translates from Latin as "dinner table," adds to Oakland's growing list of destination spots worth the short drive across the Bay Bridge or Bart trip from San Francisco.

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