Baccos Wine Cafe

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Bacco wine cafe Anniversary Party Like promised earlier this month we are hosting a WineTasting celebrating our 10 years From Napa Valley we are brining you the wines of Bruce Wayne. Unfortunately, despite our clever marketing,the name has nothing to do with the Dark Knight. The winery was named for two of its founders, Bruce Walker and Wayne Hansen. Together they've come up with a great smallish production operation that produces some very nice, round, and fruity wines that will impress even the most Old World tastes. Thursday November 11th @ 6:30 $45.oo + tax & gratuity reservation only @ 321 259 3456 Loris & Raffaella
On analysis, la cucina italiana is a miscellany of regional, provincial, local and family dishes that vary from season to season and cook to cook. It is a deliciously random fund of little treasures, of recipies rarely written down but passed intuitively from one generation to another, modified according to the produce available and enhanced by knowing hands.
At Bacco Wine Cafe, those hands belong to Loris and Rafaella Barsiola. They arrived in the United States from Savona, Italy in 1999 and opened Bacco a year later. Since then, the restaurant has become a popular dinner destination which attracts both new customers and a loyal following of regulars.
Loris works the dining room playing an eclectic mix of Jazz and serving fine Italian wine from his collection. Raffaella presides over the kitchen, preparing the evening's menu from her family recipes and the freshest local ingredients. The menu is small and constantly changing, with each dish prepared to order.
A HISTORY OF TOASTING YOU MAY HAVE WONDERED just what a roasted slice of bread has to do with the practice of offering a toast? The two couldn't seem more unrelated.
As early as the 6th Century B.C., the Greeks were toasting to the health of their friend's for a highly practical reason to assure them that the wine they were about to drink wasn't poisoned. To spike the wine with poison, had become an all too common means of dealing with social problems disposing of an enemy, silencing the competition, preventing a messy divorce, and the like. It thus became a symbol of friendship for the host to pour wine from a common pitcher, drink it before his guests, and satisfied that it was a good experience, raise his glass to his friends to do likewise. The Romans, impressed by the Greeks in general, tended to handle their interpersonal problems similarly. It's no surprise then, that the practice of toasting was popular at Roman get-togethers as well. The term toast comes from the Roman practice of dropping a piece of burnt bread into the wine. This was done to temper some of the bad wines the Romans sometimes had to drink. (Much later, even Falstaff said, "put toast in't" when he was requesting a jug of wine in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor.) The charcoal actually reduces the acidity of slightly off wines making them more palatable. In time, the Latin tostus meaning roasted or parched, came to refer to the drink itself. In the 1700's, party-goers even liked to toast to the health of people not present usually celebrities and especially beautiful women. A women who became the object of many such toasts, came to be known as the "toast of the town." By the 1800's, toasting was the proper thing to do. Charles Panati reported that a "British duke wrote in 1803 that 'every glass during dinner had to be dedicated to someone,' and that to refrain from toasting was considered 'sottish and rude, as if no one present was worth drinking to.' Oneway to effectively insult a dinner guest was to omit toasting him or her; it was, as the duke wrote, 'a piece of direct contempt'."
To temperance . . . in moderation.

09/08/2010 - 10 Year Anniversary Wine Dinner Our 10 Year Anniversary is rapidly approaching. We will be serving a special wine tasting. Please check back for more details.