Ida Giotta, matriarch of Caffe Trieste in S.F.’s North Beach, dies at 101
- Posted on December 11, 2025
- By San Francisco Chronicle
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Ida Giotta, matriarch of Caffe Trieste in S.F.’s North Beach, dies at 101
Ida Giotta, who founded Caffe Trieste with her husband and helped turn it into a North Beach cultural institution by regularly performing arias there, has died at 101.
