Hot Italian’s Canalis Salad

by Undercover Caterer on January 26, 2012

I’ve got some great recipes for you coming up but in the meantime I figured I’d share this fab salad I ate at Hot Italian the other day.  I stopped in at 5pm, after working a long and arduous day and since I’d forgotten lunch I decided I’d eat then with a happy hour cocktail.  That was probably the best decision I made all day.

The Canalis salad includes local Del Rio greens, albacore tuna, cannellini beans, red onions, good briny olives and some nice salty pecorino for good measure.  What a tasty and filling combination of ingredients.  I sucked down a Pista cocktail with it–a concoction of vodka, Campari and grapefruit juice and was as right as rain in no time flat.

Hot Italian

1627 16th Street

Sacramento, CA 95814

916-444-3000

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