San Francisco Restaurant Guide

Located on the edges of San Francsco's north beach, china town and the financial district, Chef Alessandro Campitelli is proud to welcome you to the next evolution of chiaroscuro ristorante. His classic Roman style Italian cuisine is balanced with a redesigned sleek and modern ambiance that refreshes the Italian scene in San Francisco.

Chiaroscuro (Italian for clear-dark) is a term in art for a contrast between light and dark. The term is usually applied to bold contrasts affecting a whole composition, but is also more technically used by artists and art historians for the use of effects representing contrasts of light, not necessarily strong, to achieve a sense of volume in modelling three-dimensional objects such as the human body. Further specialised uses of the term are "chiaroscuro woodcut", used for coloured woodcuts printed with different blocks, each using a different coloured ink, and "chiaroscuro drawing" used for drawings on coloured paper with drawing in a dark medium and white highlighting. The term is now also used in describing similar effects in the lighting of cinema and photography.