Google
★★★★★
“In my opinion, the Spicy Sicilian sandwich is one of the best sandwiches in all of San Diego. The perfect amount of heat, great bread, and quality cured meats.”
Italian sandwiches, pinsas, dinners to go and a wine wall in Scripps Ranch, San Diego.
An Italian market and deli at 10380 Spring Canyon Road: sandwiches on bread baked every morning, pinsa romana, heat-and-eat dinners, Friday dinner and Lasagna Sunday to preorder, catering, and 108 bottles on the wine wall at market price.
What is coming up.
Every dated evening we have open, soonest first. Seats are limited and prepaid.
Friday Dinner for Two: Chicken Cordon Bleu
Pickup Friday, October 23, 4:00–7:00 PM. Tender chicken rolled with ham, melted cheese, roasted red peppers and spinach, finished with brown butter and sage sauce. Served with buttery Italian-seasoned sweet corn. Packed hot and ready to enjoy.
$35 for two. Order by Thursday, October 22 at 8:00 PM.
Lasagna Sunday for Two
Pickup Sunday, October 25, 4:00–7:00 PM. A quarter tray of meat lasagna from the Tarantino family recipe, served with garlic bread. Generous layers of pasta, rich meat sauce and melted cheese. Serves two.
$35 for two. Order by Saturday, October 24 at 11:59 PM PT.
Journey to Piedmont: Wednesday, October 21 · 5:30–8:00 PM · $85 per guest, gratuity included, plus tax. Sold out. Join the list for the next one.
Paint & Sip Night
Monday, October 26 · 6:00–8:00 PM. An evening of painting in the shop with Creative Canvas SD. An instructor takes the room through one painting step by step over two hours; easels, canvases, brushes and paints are set out for you, and two glasses of wine come with the ticket. No experience needed, and the painting goes home with you. At Buon Cibo with Creative Canvas SD, $45 per guest. Tickets are sold by Creative Canvas SD.
Pot & Sip
Pot a succulent, paint the pot, and sip while you do it. All supplies included and all ages are welcome; wine is for guests 21 and over. The first date is coming soon. Join the email list to hear first. At Buon Cibo with The Painted Vine, $45 per guest. Tickets are sold by The Painted Vine.
A week of Italian dinners, already cooked.
Order by Friday at 8:00 PM Pacific. Pick up your meals Monday, 2:00–7:00 PM.
Chef-made in our kitchen, finished with love at home. Pick any 5 meals for $75 or 7 for $85 from this week's rotating menu.
- Pasta with Vodka and Pea Sauce
Pasta shapes rotate based on availability.
Il banco · the sandwich board
The best sandwiches in San Diego.
Focaccia baked here every morning, salumi sliced to order. Ten of them, and no wrong answer — The San Diego List put ours at No. 1.
Tutto Italiano — 17.95
Mortadella, salame, capocollo, prosciutto cotto, provolone, arugula, pepperoncini, our signature dressing.
The Spicy Sicilian — 14.95
Spicy mortadella, ’nduja-hot soppressata, stracciatella, hot honey, pepperoncini, arugula.
Prosciutto Caprese — 18.95
Prosciutto di Parma, fresh mozzarella, roasted red pepper, basil, olive oil, balsamic glaze.
On the boards
The two boards behind the counter
Pinsas 12″
The Queen Margherita — 17.95
The Classic Pepperoni — 18.95
The Tuscan Spinach & Mushroom — 18.95
The Spicy Sicilian — 18.95
The Chicken Florentine — 18.95
The Bella Vita — 19.95
The Crying Pig — 20.95
The Purple Package — 20.95
The Pistachio Prince — 21.95
The Parma Prestige — 21.95
Sandwiches
Tutto Italiano — 17.95
Prosciutto Caprese — 18.95 — 14.95
Mortadella — 14.95
Chicken Pesto — 15.95
Tacchino — 14.95
Salami — 14.95
Albacore Tuna — 14.95
Artichoke & Red Pepper Caprese — 14.95
The wine wall
Restaurant wine. Market prices.
Most places buy a bottle and charge you three times what it cost. We do not. A hundred and eight bottles on the rack, priced like the shop they are sitting in — and that price does not change when you decide to drink it here.
Every bottle numbered, so you can find one by its number
Sixty-nine Italian, the rest from California, France, Spain and South America
Ten-dollar glasses of red or white, Monday to Friday, 2 to 5
The Palermo Room
The Palermo Room, yours for the evening.
Birthdays, showers, team dinners and wine tastings, in the private room behind the arched window. You pick the food off our menus and the wine off the wall.
Boards, trays and pinsa straight from the counter
Wine off the wall, chosen with you beforehand
The same room our wine nights and sip evenings run in
See the room and book a date →
Catering
We will bring the whole counter to you.
Grazing tables, salumi and cheese boards, sandwich and pinsa platters, and trays of lasagna for the office, the game, or the thing at the house on Saturday.
Grazing tables built on site
Half and full trays from the Heat & Eat kitchen
Office lunches, ordered once and sorted
Porticello → Scripps Ranch
A Sicilian pantry, six thousand miles from home.
Our family left a fishing village outside Palermo with a handful of recipes and a stubborn idea of what food should taste like. The meatballs on the board are the ones from that kitchen. So is the sauce, the bread, the dressing we won’t write down.
What we built here is the shop we missed: a counter where somebody knows your order, a wall of wine you can afford to open, and a room loud enough to feel like Sunday.
— the Tarantino family
A local school fundraiser
Dingeman Family Dinner Night
12:30–7:00 PM
Bring the family together for pasta, meatballs, Caesar salad and garlic bread at Buon Cibo.
15% of ticket sales supports Dingeman Elementary School.
$25 per adult$18.99 per child under 12
Four 90-minute seatings · 50 guests per window.
View dinner & ticketsOne email a week
This week’s dinners and events, before they sell out.
Friday Dinner for Two, Lasagna Sunday, the Heat & Eat menu, and first dibs on every wine night and Paint & Sip.
- Friday Dinner for Two
- Lasagna Sunday
- Heat & Eat
- Wine nights & sip evenings
From our guests
From the sandwich counter
Google
★★★★★
“I was so pleasantly surprised with Buon Cibo! We ordered the Tuscan spinach and mushroom pinsa and the artichoke and red pepper caprese sandwich, which were fresh, tasty and flavorful.”
Google
★★★★★
“I ordered the Spicy Sicilian and it was fire — perfectly fresh, packed with flavor, and generously sized (big enough that I probably could’ve saved half).”
From our guests
What Friday dinner guests say
Yelp
★★★★★
“Ordered the Friday Night Dinner. So delicious. More than enough for two. Had leftovers the next day. Still licking our fingers.”
Customer email
“Dinner was spectacular!! Such a great thing to be able to pick up a meal where we can share it watching a movie and relax with a glass of wine together ! Thank you for giving us date night at home!!”
Yelp
★★★★★
“Ordered the Friday Night takeout dinner for two last night. The lasagna was excellent and plenty for two very hungry adults!”
From our guests
What guests say about our lasagna
Yelp
★★★★★
“Ordered the Friday Night takeout dinner for two last night. The lasagna was excellent and plenty for two very hungry adults!”
Customer email
“The meat lasagna dinner was absolutely delicious! Well done!”
Customer email
“The Lasagna and garlic bread was a terrific dinner. So favorable and a perfect portion. Don’t change a thing.”
From our guests
Stories from our wine nights
Yelp
★★★★★
“Tuscan Dinner and Wine Tasting... always excellent and informative. The charcuterie table was impressive and laid out with style typical to the region.”
Customer email
“We enjoyed the entire experience. The wine, the food and the atmosphere were all great. The staff were amazing. It was so much fun.”
Customer email
“Thank you for another great wine event. Cecilia and I thoroughly enjoyed the food, atmosphere, vino and of course the Wine Captain! Keep it up. We are so glad you are in our neighborhood.”
From our guests
Around the market
Google
★★★★★
“It's definitely the best Italian sandwiches and Italian market food we've found anywhere in San Diego and especially North Inland County and we go to Italy almost every year, so we're pretty picky.”
Google
★★★★★
“I had the Tutto Italiano sandwich. Amazing! Huge , had to bring half home yo have for dinner.”
Google
★★★★★
“This place is a gem! The pizzas are incredible!!!! We got a couple of them and it was more than enough for 3 people. We also got their cannoli and tiramisu and they were both absolutely delicious!”