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It's Sunday March the 26 around 12:33PM and

Sunday Styles: Salt-y Goodness

SALT Andrew Morrison emailed to let me know that another Opening Soon blog is up and running. This time it is for Salt Tasting Room. The next place in the Irish Heather group of joints set on dominating Gastown. Here is what you'll be looking forward to:

On a blackboard, a constantly changing menu will feature ten types of cured meat, ten types of cheese and ten types of condiments.
For $14 you choose 3 items from the meat and cheese sections i.e. 2 cheese & 1 meat, and three matching condiments. In essence you design your own tasting plate and we present it to you with an unlimited supply of bread.

Mmmmm. Meats. I think this sums up what could be most exciting about this soon to be salty gem: "Located in Gastown’s historic blood alley, and accessible only via the alley, Salt’s location will have the look and feel of NY’s meat packing district, right down to the cobblestones. As with the Shebeen, it’s nearest neighbor, it is not seeking to appeal to the masses, but rather to target a specific group, i.e. folk that will walk down an alley to find a gem."

THE ORACLE OF BALTIMORE A few other things to think about this lazy sunday on the food and wine front. Especially since I missed out on the California wine tasting this week. Kottke.org, which always has great, interesting, links brought our attention to this. Robert Parker gave 90-91 points to adult film star Savanna Samson's 2004 Sogno Uno - an Italian red. Of course, maybe this is a sign of Parker's fall from wine god to mere mortal. Or he is just seeing how far people will go to drink the wines he recomends.

Over at The New York Times' Eric Asimov - who has also been put on the paper's blogroll with his own called "The Pour"- decants Parker today. Parker is like the Sun's Gismondi only thousand times more smug and 100-times as powerful. Definetely worth the read - especially if you have seen the little wine-documentary gem "Mondovino".

Oh, and I tasted a silly Australian wine, Mad Fish this week. It's another critter wine label that claims they are without pretension etc. I think they just collect all the grapes in Australia and mix them together and put pretty labels on the bottle for export. I'm on to you. More on the critter-ification of wines at AdFreak.

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR
I caught this while I was surfing around. It's a long-winded tirade against some crummy service the writer got at Sammy J Peppers, in Langley no less. This has everything that is annoying about blogs wrapped up with a double shot of why would you ever go to Sammy J Peppers anyway amusement. I would rather eat at McDonald's than waste money at a place like Sammy J Peppers.