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Not my thing, but it was good for what it was, and I think it could be a good item to order for a little kid that might be a picky eater. It turns out that Cafe Cibo’s Ravioli is filled with chicken, provolone cheese, and rosemary, and topped with a gorgonzola cheese sauce.

Then I see Ravioli on the menu, and blurt out, “I want that!” I did this without reading the description as we were just in an ordering frenzy. MORE FOODIES READING Red Mesa Restaurant - Still Rockin' After All These Years Cafe Cibo MeatballĪnother dish I had a lot as a kid was beef ravioli in red sauce, which I couldn’t tell you where to get around here.

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Feel free to read my intro for the Top 5 Best Meatballs in St. I say this because most Italian meatballs around here disappoint me. Speaking of delicious meatballs, their regular Italian meatballs in red sauce are pleasantly, and surprisingly quite good. Cafe Cibo’s soup meatballs are about 1¾” in diameter, and they are delicious. Usually, Italian Wedding Soup has meatballs that are 1″ in diameter. Let’s get back to the meatballs in the soup. (I like the standard version of Italian wedding soup too.) Cup of Italian Wedding Soup The mouthfeel of that pasta combined with the taste and feel of the grated parmesan, and the flavor and silkiness of the broth…Wow! It’s a perfect example of “simpler is better”. Mom-Mom made a simple soup with the Ditalini pasta just like Cafe Cibo’s. (For the record, we actually called her, “Mom-Mom”.) With it being so different than the usual Italian Wedding Soup, I still love it.īecause it reminds me exactly of the soup my grandmother made. They use a light Caesar dressing, which is perfectly fine. I really liked the homemade, rustic, crunchy, buttery croutons. The Caesar Salad is good and fresh, and pretty standard. The dipping sauce gets rave reviews everywhere you can find reviews. (This makes me seem really old.) Very Good Italian Bread, and the Famous Dipping SauceĪt Cafe Cibo, you start off with two types of Italian bread that are both excellent-a few pieces of a nice rustic baguette, and a few pieces of Focaccia. Back then, in the earlier days, we had a milkman that delivered fresh milk, and we had a cheese guy that brought large chunks of cheese to my grandmother’s house. (How cool is it to have two kitchens in one house?)Įverything was made from scratch, from the backyard garden, always fresh grated cheese that came from the delivery truck.

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(I appreciated this a lot more as I got older.) Their basement was completely finished with a full kitchen including stove, oven, and refrigerator, and had a long table for large family gatherings. Their house was in New Brunswick, close to Rutgers University, and one block from the Douglas College for Women’s Dorms. (They’ve been around since 1999.) It feels more like my grandmother’s basement than a restaurant. The atmosphere feels a little dated, but I actually like it.

When I go to Cafe Cibo, it brings me back to that time. It sounds like a cliché, but my maternal grandparents literally came over on the boat from Sicily.

(Cue “The Soparanos” theme music.) I also grew up with an Italian grandmother. It was old school northeast-New York / New Jersey area. It seems like, back then, that all of my friends were either Jewish, or Italian. I grew up in New Jersey in the 1970s-early 80s.