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Cured meats for birthday dinner

bonacorsi and I went to Perbacco for her birthday on the recommendation of our CSA folks. It's one of the relatively recent crop of regional Italian places that make salumi (the Italian version of charcuterie, or cured meats).

It was nice. Not an intimate romantic place - more of a (wince) meat market; but good. We were somewhat overdressed and the service was a bit over-solicitous.

We split the small salumi platter to try the sampling of cured meats. That was the way to go - oh man, I want to make my own proscuitto, but I'd need a meat cellar. Actually, I'd like to go back in a group of 4 or 6 and sit at the bar, have a couple glasses of wine, and try a bunch of the appetizers. Might be fun for a boys' night out.

We both had fish for the main course. Again, good but not knock your socks off. The trio of gelati (caramel with black sea salt, pistachio, and chocolate) was fabulous however.