Cara Mia Menu (Update 2025)
Introducing the Menu at Cara Mia
Cara Mia invites you to experience the rich flavors of Italy right in Rancho Cucamonga. With a delightful selection that marries tradition and creativity, the menu highlights include the Meat Lasagna, Chicken Piccata, and the exquisite Grilled Salmon. Each dish is crafted with fresh ingredients, offering both comfort and sophistication.
Noteworthy is their extensive lunch selection, featuring delicious paninis such as the Chicken Pesto and Eggplant Parmigiana. The atmosphere is enhanced by live music, especially on weekends, providing a vibrant backdrop to every meal.
Cara Mia is perfect for intimate gatherings or larger celebrations, showcasing excellent service that leaves guests feeling welcomed and cherished. Indulge in this culinary journey where every bite transports you straight to Italy!
Lunch Specials
Meat Lasagna
Layered dish with wide flat pasta.
Chicken Piccata
Served with a side of pasta.
Grilled Salmon
Ray-finned fish.
Spaghetti
Served with marinara or meat sauce.
Spinach Ravioli
In aurora sauce.
White Fish
In spumanti cream sauce.
Angel Hair Fresco
Angel hair sauteed in olive oil and garlic with spinach, fresh tomatoes, and mushrooms.
Top Sirloin Salad
Grilled top sirloin over bed of baby mix greens, red onion, cherry tomatoes with your choice of dressing.
Chicken Marsala
Served with a side of pasta.
Grilled Top Sirloin
Topped with green peppercorn cream sauce with a side of pasta in a light marinara sauce.
Chicken Pesto Panini
Served with grilled onion, peppers and melted provolone cheese.
Chicken Parmigiana Panini
Made or covered with Parmesan cheese.
Eggplant Parmigiana Panini
Served with mozzarella, fresh tomatoes, and arugula.
Lunch Panini
Dinner Appetizers
Bruschetta
Marinated fresh tomatoes with extra virgin olive oil, garlic, oregano, and fresh basil.
Fried Calamari
Squid.
Shrimp Liveronese
Shrimp sauteed in olive oil, garlic, white wine, and light marinara sauce.
Burrata & Arugula
Burrata mozzarella cheese, arugula salad, cherry tomatoes with extra virgin olive oil, sea salt, and balsamic vinegar reduction.
Crab Cake
Served with Gorgonzola cream sauce.
Mozzarella Caprese
Fresh mozzarella vine-ripened tomatoes, extra virgin olive oil, and balsamic vinegar reduction.
Lobster Bisque Soup
Thick and creamy soup.
Lentil Soup
Minestrone
Hearty vegetable soup.
Dinner Soup
Dinner Salads
Shrimp Salad
Shrimp and mushrooms sauteed in olive oil and garlic over the bed of baby mix greens with raspberry vinaigrette.
Caesar Salad
Green salad with Caesar dressing and cheese.
Cara Mia Wedge
Baby lettuce wedge with crispy bacon, red onion, blue cheese crumbles, cucumber, and cherry tomatoes with blue cheese dressing.
Green Salad
Lettuce, baby mix green with tomatoes, cucumber, black olives, artichokes with your choice of Italian, blue cheese or ranch dressing.
Cara Mia Salad
Spinach or baby mix green with candied walnuts, grapes, hard boiled eggs, feta cheese, crispy bacon, and poached pears in a raspberry vinaigrette.
Green Salad & Soup
Fresh salad with a variety of green vegetables typically served on a bed of lettuce.
Dinner Green Salad and Soup
Dinner Pizza
Pizza Burrata
Burrata cheese, prosciutto, and arugula.
Pizza Genovese
Mozzarella cheese, pesto, pine nuts, cherry tomatoes, and artichokes.
Pizza Cara Mia
Mozzarella cheese, truffle infused Gorgonzola, chicken, mushrooms, and fresh basil.
Spaghetti Fresco
Sauteed in olive oil and garlic with fresh tomatoes and spinach.
Fettuccine Primavera
Sauteed in olive oil and garlic with mixed vegetables in marinara or Alfredo sauce.
Tortellini Genovese
Cheese tortellini with pesto cream sauce.
Fettuccine Alfredo
Flat thick pasta.
Salmon Linguine
Sauteed with butter, garlic, and green onion, with salmon and tossed in a mascarpone cream sauce.
Butternut Squash Ravioli
In a pernod pink cream sauce.
Shrimp Parmigiana
Shrimp sauteed in olive oil, garlic, white wine, and light marinara sauce, baked with mozzarella then served over linguine.
Baked Ravioli
Spinach Ravioli in aurora sauce baked with mozzarella cheese.
Cara Mia Angel Hair
Sauteed in olive oil and garlic with oven-roasted cherry tomatoes, artichokes heart, and burrata cheese.
Penne alla vodka
Sauted in butter and garlic with bacon in vodka pink cream sauce
Dinner Pasta
Dinner House Specials
Eggplant Parmigiana
Lightly breaded eggplant baked with ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese, and light marinara sauce.
Cioppino
Mixed fish, clams, mussels, calamari, and shrimp sauteed in a light tomato broth with a side linguine.
Chicken Riccho
Boneless chicken breast sauteed in olive oil, garlic, white wine, and light marinara sauce, baked with prosciutto and mozzarella cheese.
Chicken Vaneziano
Boneless chicken breast sauteed with fresh spinach and tomatoes in a cream sauce.
Chicken Cara Mia
Boneless chicken breast with mushrooms in truffle infused Gorgonzola sauce.
Chicken Parmigiana
Lightly breaded deep-fried boneless chicken breast baked with mozzarella cheese and marinara sauce.
SIDE PASTA
Dinner Chicken
Dinner Beef
10 oz. Filet Mignon
12 oz. Ribeye
Scampi
Your choice of green peppercorn brandy cream sauce, herb sauce, diavolo sauce, or piccata.
Sole picatta
sole fish with butter,garlic,lemon and capers
Dinner Fish
Takeout Special
Pizza x2
Two pizzas come with four toppings of your choice (two free toppings on each pizza). In the special instructions, please let us know which toppings you would like on which pizza.