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| - Went to this little restaurant on a suggestion from a friend. Local kitchen is a cozy ittle italian place on the west end with a constantly changing specials menu.
Upon walking in you'll notice that the whole place will remind you of something between a deli and a meat locker. I think the meat locker curtains were a nice little touch. There are a lot of little things that also add to the experience. Mason jars for beer, water from refrigerated swing-top bottles and meat hanging on the ceiling.
I ordered the salami platter right away and followed it up with a N'Duja crostini, the gnocchi and a black pepper linguini with bacon.
The salami plate was quite interesting. Really similar to the black hoof if you'd ever been. They cure all their meat in house which is pretty cool. After trying them all I found myself not completely impressed with their selections. The shoulder salami was quite tasty. Perfect consistency, flavour and almost melted in your mouth. However the hunter salami was probably my least favourite. It had the consistency of a stick of lard with pieces of meat in it, gross. The procuitto that they had on there was not made in house and was okay, but not "mind blasting".
My friends ordered the two different salads and I had a tiny sample. One of the salads was a leek salad with some olive oil and an egg on it. If you're wondering how this looked, it's exactly how it sounds. 2 leeks with some olive oil (flavoured) and an egg. I was really unimpressed with this. It seemed like something I could have pulled together after an exam in university.
The other salad was actually quite nice. It had a bed of candy cane beets, a nice sweet dressing and Parmesan regiano slices ontop; a great paring.
The pastas were probably the best things about this place. Both the gnocchi and the linguini were hand made pastas. In my opinion a world of a difference. One thing that I found really delightful was the fact that you could actually taste the potato in the gnocchi.
The bacon linguini was pretty good as well, not the best I've ever had but pretty good. The bacon was thinly sliced and actually very light. Went really well with the linguini.
One thing that I didn't order but kept seeing people order (we sat at the bar) were Caesars. These did not mess around. Clamato juice, vodka, jalapeño, shaken and then topped with fresh grated horseradish. I'm really surpised I didn't order one but it'd be on te top of my list if I'd return.
Definately a place to check out if you can. Get the Caesar and tell me how it is. I overheard a person saying it was "too spicy". Silly rabbit.
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