Photo via Google, Michael SebournSalumi
- Hours
- Today: 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM
- Getting there
- Pioneer Square, downtown Seattle
Why it’s in the log
Armandino Batali — a retired Boeing engineer and father of chef Mario Batali — opened Salumi after training in Italy as a traditional meat curer. Anthony Bourdain closed out the Pacific Northwest episode of No Reservations here, and later told the Seattle Times, "That is a holy place for me... it should be a UNESCO site. It should be a landmark."
The shop runs on Batali family cured-meat recipes: house-made salami, coppa and prosciutto stacked into sandwiches at a counter that's barely changed since it opened. It's takeout-format and often standing-room only — the appeal was never the seating.
Go for lunch, not dinner — Salumi keeps daytime deli hours, and the cured meats sell out by the time the line thins.
“Told the Seattle Times it should be a UNESCO site — for a sandwich shop, that's about as high as Bourdain's praise got.”
What people said recently
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“Update: After being underwhelmed by the cold salami, I was informed they changed up the bread. So I went back and got the eggplant parm. Total reversal here in terms of my experience and opinion of this place. Excellent bread, flavors and…”
“Heard this was one of Anthony Bourdain's all time favorite restaurants in Seattle, and boy was he right! We stopped in before our cruise, and ended up coming back in after our cruise. The porchetta sandwich is absolutely to die for and my…”
“Used to love coming here. In my opinion, it was the best Italian sandwich you could get in Seattle. They’ve changed since, one of the things that really made the worst difference was that they changed the bread for the sandwiches from…”
