I want to enjoy some pizza and red wine with friends. I want hip, yet unpretentious. I want a clean place. I want a patio. I want to walk there easily from King’s Curve.
Bar Salumi www.barsalumi.com is the answer. Fabio Bondi (Chef) and Michael Sangregorio (Front Of House Man) own this neighborhood wine bar and eatery. It’s the sister to their proper restaurant Local Kitchen & Wine Bar. www.localkitchen.ca
Yes, yes I know Salumi is a meat thing, and I’m a veggie-head. (Wendy at Chez Chloe please still like me!) Well I don’t care what my friends eat if they don’t care what I eat. I go to Bar Salumi for the pizza. It’s awesome. They also bake focaccia in their pizza oven.
I get my camera to photo-journalistically document the experience. I envision the pics I’m going to take of the food I’ll be eating.
As I enter Queen, I quickly become distracted by a hanging flower basket. Ah, the BIA is in back in action, and it only costs me $1,000.00 a year.
I think of all the extra pizza I could eat and wine I could drink if I had that grand. Hmm, I wonder what the flowers taste like?
Bar Salumi is one of the many enterprises slotted into the endless old row buildings on the north side of Queen.
Walking to Bar Salumi
I arrive at Bar Salumi, a niche in an old store-front. They’ve chosen to utilize the remainders of the past and just add their sign and sandwich board.
I walk inside. It’s narrow. Perfect for a bar, which is what it is; a bar with food that I will document with my camera. I’ve come right at opening so I don’t have to deal with patrons freaking out when I take shots.
The chandeliers help make the place. The well stocked bar also helps. Of course I’ll be taking pics of the food.
And now for the patio. Urban Boho at it’s happening-est.
We sit at a table, and before I’m fully seated, I order a bottle of Nero Di Troia. Someone else gets a beer.
We order a Salumi Platter, a Cheese Platter and 2 pizzas. One pizza is a classic Margherita Pizza. The other is a white pizza with porcicni mushrooms and some odd cheese which I have replaced with mozzarella.
Another bottle of wine, please! What a great time I’m having.
What a yummy dinner that was. Oops, I forgot to take pics. At least someone documented the vestiges.
What can I do? I know! I’ll take a shot of the bottle of wine. Notice how I have the perspicacity to feature the 3/4 profile of the back of the label. Sigh!
What a neat floor! I notice it, as we depart.
On our way to Crystal-Cave for chocolate cup cakes, vanilla ice-cream and just a little bit more wine, K and I decide to have an old-fashioned OK Corral shoot-out.
It’s ten paces, turn and fire. Only one will come out alive.
High as kites on cupcake sugar, we rock out for a bit at Crystal- Cave, but I can’t get over the fact that I forgot to document the food at Bar Salumi.
How can I do a blog post about a restaurant without food shots?
AFTERMATH
A couple of nights later, I return to Bar Salumi. I intend to get food shots. Rain’s a promise. I sit inside. I drag a friend over to enjoy the fare.
Due to wine and fun, I manage to take this picture before the last vestiges stage of the evening is reached.
In summation, Bar Salumi is just too tasty and too much of a good time to ignore. I’m going again soon. You?
WAAAAAAAAAAAANT
Waaaant back.
Now I wanna go to
. Great post!!! Looks like you guys had fun and bar salumi looks very nice
I’m lucky.
i heart this blog. i heart this post. i heart you.
I heart you, too! Thanks for, you know! Techno difficulties with my Blog’s display all of a sudden. My pages are displaying between the tile of my Blog and the image.This can’t be. It looks retarded. I must have f^&>=% something up in the “Menu” selection.
I’d love to Resa…. It’s a bit far to go though…. I’ll just enjoy reading about it for now….!
Oh, by the way; that pic of the food – delightful…
Oh, thank you for reading about it.I live in such a great spot on earth that I want to share. The food pic might be delightful, but not as delightful as you!
LOL…. Likewise I’m sure…. xoxoxo
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Thank-you. I’ve just started a new job, and my time is very limited. I find accepting the awards is time consuming, so it will be a back-burner project for me. I’m still happy with my Beautiful Blogger award.Thank you for you kind thoughts.Thank you for writing.
wine and pizza — great combination.
A mark of civilization!
I love that I’m not the only person who forgets to take photos of the food! Great when find a place you love!
Like your blog spot! Thanks for the visit, Imelda.
Hi there,
I have two cousins who always take photos of their restaurant food. They post it on Facebook. I always think, I’ll do that the next time I go out for lovely dinner… but I always forget.
Just like me! Nice to hear from you!
Of course I do… your kind of monkey mind is totally my style! And I will also add I watched Food Inc, about a month ago and haven’t had the heart to eat cows or pigs…But now must admit I was once again swayed to the dark side by a local BBQ joint where the smiling faces faded into the black char and bourbon sauce. And the cornbread sucked so there was nothing else to eat.
And I’ll have to go back for pics.
Yay! I have a monkey mind. Black char and bourbon sauce does sound good. I wonder if there’s non-pig and non-cow takes on that?
Bar Salumi sounds like my kind of place. A change from Terroni. Pizza is it’s own food group. A few years ago we owned what was considered the best pizzeria in the Pacific North West. Passionate Pizza. I’d walk ten miles for a good pizza. Virginia
For me, Terroni has nothing on Bar Salumi. Pizza rocks.