Friendly atmosphere, a star chef and a true Italian experience. Salumi is a local darling! Notable chef Armandino Batali casts his spell with lip-smacking home-cured meat and sausages. If you're game for a feast, order a full plate of assorted hot or cold meats. By lunch hours, however, Salumi's waiting lines run long but your patience is usually well-rewarded. Sit with the regulars at the community ...
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Artisinal meatballs, sausage, homemade salami, more. Mere sliver of a shop. Special dinners by reservation. Lunch picks: oxtail sandwich; cured meat plate featuring salamis, lamb or pork prosciutto; swiss chard with garlic, olive oil, lemon.
The kind chef-owner Armandino Batali (father of famed New York chef Mario Batali) doles out samples of his fabulous house-cured meats while you wait for a table (which you must be willing to share) at this postage-stamp of a place. Order a meatball, oxtail, sausage, or lamb sandwich -- and get samples of your runners-up. The house wine served at lunch is strong, inexpensive, and good. This place gets ...
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Private rooms are available for special prix-fixe lunches, Tuesday-Thursday. Seven or eight people may dine; price runs $30 per person, with low-priced wine available for an additional charge.
Only 30 to 45 minutes' worth of lunch line signals that Salumi is no neighborhood lunch counter. Though it emphatically is, as long as you appreciate that the dot-com survivors and city department heads are busily schmoozing with traveling celebrity chefs and guidebook-wielding visitors over Armandino Batali's superb Italian cucina povera. Salumi has become a pilgrimage spot for lovers of hearty artisanal ...
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For many folks, salami is a guilty pleasure. We all know it has a lot of fat, but it tastes too good to resist. Now, raise the bar on salami, and you have the artisan-cured meats of this closet-size eatery near Pioneer Square. The owner, Armandino Batali, who happens to be the father of New York's famous chef Mario Batali, makes all his own salami (as well as traditional Italian-cured beef tongue). ...
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Not everything here is the best. Ive tried four sandwiches so far and two of them came out pretty good. Two others are merely OKas in I wouldnt go wait in line for 45 minutes again to buy those.But the line seems to be long all the time. I wonder what the secret isperhaps Ive gotten use to spices and need more to get satisfied.You should try it at some point but dont go between noon and 1pm because ...
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