peninsula restaurant profile
The Latch Inn
Visiting With the Cisottos by Lara Gladych
This is the fourth in a six-part series of profiles on some of the Saanich Peninsula's wonderful restaurants and pubs. I'm at The Latch Inn and Restaurant, and owner Luigi Cisotto and I are meeting for the second time. It's mid-morning one day in July, and it's just the two of us sitting down together this time, though he owns and operates the business with his wife, Valeria. We're friends enough now that without
much conversation, Luigi pours me a glass of sparkling water and leaves me alone at a table overlooking the patio, while he disappears into the kitchen to prepare something for me. I look outside and see that there are tables still set up outside from a family reunion held here the night before. When Luigi rejoins me, he carries with him an antipasto plate and a sausage dish. I've heard Luigi talk in the past about his house-cured meats and homemade sausage.
Capicolla, seasoned with chili and paprika, and prosciutto lay at the top of the plate. Next to the meat is a preserved smelt. He catches the smelts himself up-island. There's also tomato and mozzarella caprese, the tomatoes fresh from their garden, and Valeria's roasted and marinated yellow peppers. There are olives and artichokes, Valeria's sundried tomatoes, a radish and a warm onion tart. It's a lovely selection, and Luigi says that these cold plates are particularly popular during the
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The Latch Inn and Restaurant Open Tuesday - Sunday For Dinner 2328 Harbour Rd., Sidney 250.656.4015 • www.latchinn.ca 56 SEASIDE | AUGUST 2015
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