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Wandered into Salt Tasting Room a couple weeks ago but didn’t get a chance to check it out. Nina and Lorraine have been able to do what I haven’t – check out the legendary Salt. Well, I’ll have to live vicariously through their musings about the place. If that doesn’t work, there’s always sweetspot’s sweet nothing from July 21st:

07-21-06 Pass the Salt

Ahh, France, so many things to love: the history, the clothes, the men. (S’il vous plaît, they invented French kissing. It doesn’t get any better than that!)

And the way they throw bread, cheese, meat and wine together, creating a meal that rivals five-course feasts from Michelin-starred restaurants. Which is why we were so delighted to stumble across Salt Tasting Room, a sleek new joint that elevates charcuterie and cheese to their rightful place at the top of the gourmet food chain.

At Salt, good things come in threes. Choose any three items from among the 20 meats and cheeses listed on the blackboard. Pick three condiments (and we’re not talking ketchup and relish) from the exotic array of chutneys, nuts and assorted accompaniments and voilà! For $15, you’ve just created your own little taste of Provence, complete with crackers and baguette.

Our tip for first-timers: Let your waiter create a wine and plate combo for you. Our taste buds won’t stop craving stilton, honeycomb and cabernet sauvignon. Or wild boar chorizo paired with organic apricots, or Hungarian salami with Riesling, or. . .

Now bring on the hot waiter and some French kissing. Excusez moi, we meant to say, French dishing. . .

Salt Tasting Room
www.salttastingroom.com
Blood Alley, Gastown
604-633-1912

If your imagination isn’t running wild at the moment, there’s also vitamin v’s daily dose from July 28th:

10 things we love about salt tasting room

1. Its secretive, Blood Alley entrance in Gastown. Look up for the salt shaker.
2. The gorgeous, clean, modern design—with a picture window looking onto a whitewashed flophouse.
3. GM Chris Stearns’ new faux-hawk. Did he get it for his recent stage in the kitchen at Charlie Trotter?
4. Brilliant and unusual wine selects, like the amazing Italian Feudi di San Gregorio white ($60/bottle).
5. The beautiful concrete bathroom walls. Really.
6. Sean Heather’s (The Irish Heather) prize meat slicer.
7. The modern take on the ploughman’s lunch that constitutes the menu. $15 gets you three meats or cheeses from a rotating list, with Terra bread and crackers. So simple, so smart.
8. The tiny plates of “condiments” that come with roasted Spanish macona almonds, organic Similkameen apricots and French cornichons.
9. The fact that the 50-seat room was standing room only even before the opening was announced.
10. That this list could be a least twice as long.

Read more and view the blog at www.salttastingroom.com

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