{"id":431986,"date":"2026-08-13T18:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431986\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T18:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:54:13","slug":"san-jose-boss-of-the-sauce-contest-returns-to-little-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431986\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose: &#8216;Boss of the Sauce&#8217; contest returns to Little Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ll see whose tomatoes make the grade Sunday when \u201cBoss of the Sauce\u201d returns to San Jose\u2019s Little Italy district on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Eight Bay Area restaurants, including returning champ Locanda Restaurants, will compete in the tournament-style contest in the piazza in front of the Little Italy Cultural Center and Museum at 323 Sharks Way.<\/p>\n<p>The other sauce slingers are Bibo\u2019s, Mio Vicino Pasta and Pizzeria, Paesano Ristorante Italiano, Famiglia Meduri\u2019s Poor House Bistro, Sorelle Italian Bistro, Tony &amp; Alba\u2019s and Vito\u2019s Trattoria.<\/p>\n<p>The festivities start at noon, and you don\u2019t have to take the judges\u2019 word for whose sauce is the best. For a $25 ticket ($30 at the door), you can sample all the sauces accompanied by freshly cooked pasta.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s \u201call you can eat,\u201d of course, so you can make an informed decision and vote for the \u201cPeople\u2019s Choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tickets: <a href=\"http:\/\/littleitalysj.com\/events\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">littleitalysj.com\/events<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019ll see whose tomatoes make the grade Sunday when \u201cBoss of the Sauce\u201d returns to San Jose\u2019s Little&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,185,421,181,23,100,412,88,90,89,197,198,200,420],"class_list":["post-431986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-campbell","tag-food-and-drink","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-restaurants","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}