Big day
Well, a bittersweet day today, watching the pizza ovens rolling out the front door. I remember when we bought the place, the pizza ovens were the dominant force, a huge hulking presence in the back of the kitchen. Then of course, we were going to sell them: Wendy was trying to come up with a good idea for the food for Corso, it couldn’t just be a generic Italian restaurant, not after the famous opening of A16 and the real awareness in the Bay Area of regional Italian food. Wendy spent so much time in Florence, it was the food she was most familiar with, so it made sense to feature it. The only problem was, pizza isn’t really done in Florence, I mean, you can get it, but not in a traditional trattoria.
But we had the ovens, so we made it a feature of the restaurant. And though we love our pizza, it never really caught on at Corso. We’d sell a dozen a night, but out of 150 covers, it wasn’t a very high percentage and we had to have a cook dedicated to doing pretty much just that. So after two years, we finally decided to pull the plug and sell them. Moving them out granted us badly needed space, we can now have our salumi refrigerator in house to show everyone we make it all in house, and if you don’t know, Chef Rodrigo gets in whole animals to make it from. We feel we can now concentrate on what we do best: regional Italian food from Florence.
I’ve snatched up some new wines recently, even found some more 2004 Brunellos, not cheap wines, but a great wine from the best vintage in 10 years.
Hope we’ll see you soon at Corso!
Roscoe