General question for fans of Primo

Is bread served as a standard item to each table or is it by request only?

[Robin Garr]

Is bread served as a standard item to each table or is it by request only?

In my experience, Dan, it's standard, and yummy - crusty Blue Dog baguette, cut in thick slices and stacked in a tall wire basket, with olive oil on a plate for dipping.

I could see them pulling back to request-only if supplies ran low, but it's always been a fixture on the table without my having to ask.

At lunch I remember more the thin, long, crispy cracker.

Its funny you mentioned that. When we ate there last Saturday, my wife noticed a table that was sat after us had bread, and noted that we did not. Not 10 seconds later, without us saying anything, here comes our server with bread and oil...

We had a similar experience to Todd's with the exception of us receiving the bread. We did not say anything because we did not notice the other tables receiving the bread until we had finished our meal. I would have enjoyed some bread with my seafood bisque. More than anything I just wanted to know for possible future visits.

I took my mom there tonight for her b-day before we ventured over to the Palace for the Celtic Woman concert. After we ordered our apps, the server brought the bread in the wire basket along with a quality olive oil. I just wished they would've added something to the oil. The bottle the oil came in did have rosemary and garlic in it and that is a good thing, but I like additional stuff. You know, like cracked pepper, herbs, spices, etc. Sometime soon, I'll write up a full review of our scrumptious meal. It wasn't perfect, but it was darn good. Really darned good. Maybe only a miscue or 3 from perfection.

I wonder how flour going up 500% in the last few months will effect the usual bread offerings. It's got to be hurting our bakeries.

If the oil is a good quality extra virgin olive oil, I don't want them to put a spice mix into a la Carrabba's. My real pet peeve is when a restaurant ruins a good dish of extra virgin olive oil by dribbling a bunch of cheap, faux-balsamic vinegar into it.

Last time I was at Primo, they were using a good evoo. The only thing I want to add to that is maybe a pinch of salt.

I couple of weeks ago my wife and I had a real nice dinner at Primo. That anchovey pizza is a killer!

If the oil is a good quality extra virgin olive oil, I don't want them to put a spice mix into a la Carrabba's. My real pet peeve is when a restaurant ruins a good dish of extra virgin olive oil by dribbling a bunch of cheap, faux-balsamic vinegar into it.

Last time I was at Primo, they were using a good evoo. The only thing I want to add to that is maybe a pinch of salt.

Variety IS the spice of life.

[Robin Garr]

Last time I was at Primo, they were using a good evoo. The only thing I want to add to that is maybe a pinch of salt.

I love Primo, but for the record, that oil-in-a-dish thing seems to be American, not Italian. Over there, in my expereience, you get butter with your bread.

Last time I was at Primo, they were using a good evoo. The only thing I want to add to that is maybe a pinch of salt.

I love Primo, but for the record, that oil-in-a-dish thing seems to be American, not Italian. Over there, in my expereience, you get butter with your bread.

I think the oil with bread is a Sicilian thing, but American or not, I don't like adulterating good olive oil with a bunch of seasoning.

I wonder how flour going up 500% in the last few months will effect the usual bread offerings. It's got to be hurting our bakeries.

Hey Carla,

I'm sure it's hurting the bakeries, but it's hurting everyone else too. I just found out that my #1 distributor will start adding a fuel charge to EACH delivery starting next month---wanna guess how much? SEVEN dollars. I understand that fuel is expensive, and I'm not so much against a charge-----but I think there should be limits, and exceptions. We get a delivery AT LEAST three, sometimes four, sometimes five days a week. I'll have to raise my prices....especially when we (small, independents) don't have as deep pockets as the chains, I can't just take the hit. It's a sad thing...some of my customers just don't understand. My favorite is, "When you were on Brownsboro Road, that was X dollars!" Well, when we were on Brownsboro Road, that was FIVE years ago, and I could fill up my twelve gallon tank for under twenty bucks....ahhhh....those were the days:)

Eye eye, Ashley. We should all take a page outta that book of logic. Hard to get that point across without whopping people in the face with it.

I meant that in a metaphorical-non-violent way. By the way.