Skip the Cooking, Not the Quality
Every dinner is made fresh to order from Tom's family recipes, cooked by hand the day you pick it up and never pulled from a case. Because we prepare exactly what is reserved, these are pre-order only – just lock in your order by 8 PM the night before. Walk in, grab your dinner, and add a bottle from the wine boutique and a cannoli or tiramisu to make the whole night effortless.
Friday Dinner Is Solved
This week’s Friday Night Dinner for Two brings a classic Italian comfort-food combination home to your table: manicotti, a Tarantino family recipe meatball, and garlic bread.
Each dinner serves two, with one manicotti, one meatball, and one piece of garlic bread per person.
Picked up hot and ready to enjoy. No cooking, no reheating, and no Friday-night cleanup.
What’s Included
2 manicotti
2 meatballs
2 pieces of garlic bread
Serves two: $35
Preorder by Thursday at 8 PM.
Pickup Friday from 4 to 7 PM at Buon Cibo in Scripps Ranch.
Preorder at buoncibosd.com/preorder
How Pre-Order Works
1. Reserve by 8 PM the night before.
2. We cook it fresh – every order made by hand perfectly timed to be ready for your preferred pick-up time.
3. Pick up and enjoy – bring it home, no cooking and no cleanup. Add wine and dessert at checkout.
Sugo Sunday is Buon Cibo’s slow-simmered Italian Sunday sauce meal, made with rigatoni, rich red tomato sugo, one tender meatball, Italian sausage, grated cheese, fresh basil, and warm garlic bread.
This is the kind of meal that makes Sunday feel like Sunday.
At Buon Cibo in Scripps Ranch, our Sugo Sunday is inspired by Tom Tarantino’s Sicilian family recipe, passed down from his Nanu and made the way Sunday sauce is supposed to be made: low and slow, with tomatoes, garlic, herbs, and braised meat filling the kitchen with that unmistakable Italian comfort.
Every bowl starts with rigatoni tossed in rich, slow-cooked sugo, then gets topped with a tender meatball, savory Italian sausage, generous grated cheese, and fresh basil. On the side, you get warm garlic bread for every last bit of sauce you will not want to leave behind.
Recommended Wine Pairings
Make it a true Sugo Sunday. Enjoying your meal at Buon Cibo? Settle into the Palermo Room and add a glass from our Fine Daily Wine Selection. Taking it to go? Add one of our recommended bottles and bring home the full Italian Sunday meal experience.
Perfect Pairing — Planeta Etna Rosso DOC, Sicily 2021 — $50
Bright, elegant, and beautifully balanced for slow-simmered tomato sugo, rigatoni, meatball, Italian sausage, cheese, and garlic bread.
Best Take-Home Bottle — Firriato Ribeca Perricone — $42
A savory Sicilian red with enough richness for the sauce and enough freshness to keep every bite balanced.
Bold Upgrade — Firriato Harmonium Nero d’Avola — $56
A fuller, deeper Sicilian red for anyone who wants a bigger, richer pairing with sausage, meatball, and red sauce.
Wine available for guests 21+. Valid ID required at pickup or dine-in. Wine availability may vary.
“Generous portions and amazing flavor.”
“Melts in your mouth. Do not change a thing.”
“Another great meal — we’ll be ordering again next Friday!”
“We loved it!”
“Thank you for giving us date night at home!”
“We’re so happy you’re in the neighborhood!”
“You have a great team.”
“The beef was so tender and flavorful.”
“The chicken was outstanding.”
“The tiramisu was the perfect touch.”
Looking for Dessert?
Available to add on at checkout
Tiramisu is the dessert Italian grandmothers built specifically for the end of a long, good meal.
Espresso-soaked ladyfingers are layered with cloud-light mascarpone cream and finished with a dusting of bittersweet cocoa on top. Sweet, but not too sweet. Rich, but not heavy. Coffee, cocoa, and cream doing exactly what they were meant to do together.
One generous slice, enough for two, packed cold and ready to enjoy after dinner.
Add it to your Friday Night Dinner for Two, or grab one any time you stop in.
The cannolo is Sicily’s most famous sweet, and the one Tom Tarantino grew up watching the women in his family make on Sunday afternoons in their Sicilian kitchen. A crisp fried shell, a fresh ricotta cream filling that walks the line between rich and bright, and a generous dusting of powdered sugar — like Sicilian snow — to finish it off just right. Just enough sweetness to feel like a real treat without overwhelming the espresso you should drink with it.
Two cannolis. One for each of you. Or both for whoever called it first.
A rich, comforting Italian-inspired dessert made with traditional panettone bread, baked until golden and custardy, then finished with a light dusting of powdered sugar. Each bite offers a soft, moist center with warm notes of vanilla, citrus, and sweet fruit from the panettone, creating a dessert that feels both familiar and special.
Available in limited quantities.