Comments on: Call Joe Pantalone! Open Salt Wine Bar

By: Salt Wine Bar celebrates three years in business | Ossington Village

Salt Wine Bar celebrates three years in business | Ossington Village — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 21:04:45 +0000

[…] been longer, but Salt was a restaurant that was caught on the wrong side of former city councillor Joe Pantalone’s misguided restaurant moratorium. The owners had signed their lease but they had not submitted their liquor license application by […]

By: Salt Wine Bar is closed, hopefully not for good | Ossington Village

Salt Wine Bar is closed, hopefully not for good | Ossington Village — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:26:20 +0000

[…] Wine Bar is closed, hopefully not for good By Melinda M, on September 30th, 2010 As we have mentioned, the moratorium and other restrictions on Ossington have proven too much for Salt Wine Bar. We […]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:44:00 +0000

In reply to Vanweb. JP is still not open. And I think if you break the rules, you should be open about breaking the rules. It wasn't like they were sneaking around while doing that. They told people they didn't have a license, somewhat to bring attention to the issue. Isn't the question why don't they have a license now? Just because they got caught on the wrong side of Joe Pantalone's sneaky endeavor to shut down the street.

By: Vanweb

Vanweb — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:13:00 +0000

Breaking the rules will not gain you sympathy and in fact will make it harder for them to get an actual licence. Even if the city lifted the moratorium the AGCO may say they will not grant the licence because Salt illegally served liquor in the past which is a valid reason not to grant someone a licence (everyone in the inductry knows you cannot use a catering licence to serve liquor in your own restaurant, so calling it “semi-legal” is a lie).

They should have done what JP did and took the fight to the media and the people.