Oil & Vinegar, a Palate's Delight

Edible Skinny was lucky enough to visit the newest location of foodie specialty store Oil & Vinegar at the Del Amo Fashion Center during the Holiday season!  From a fierce Moutarde Royale, a fantastic mustard made with Cognac, to freeze dried Bruschetta which is perfect for a weekend camping trip (just add water), Oil & Vinegar has gourmand delights for every palate.   

 

Oil & Vinegar is an innovative and interactive Gourmet Specialty Retail concept store filled with a vast range of exclusive private labeled products.  Originating in Oosterhout, the Netherlands the brand has 109 stores worldwide, 23 which are located in the United States.  As Oil & Vinegar says, “you can taste the Mediterranean sun in all of their ingredients.” 

 

The Torarance location at the Del Amo FashionCenter location, which has been open since December 7^th, offers a variety of bon vivant Oil & Vinegar products such as herb mixes, dressings, olives, sundried tomatoes, mustards, sauces, pestos, pastas in various forms and colors, and a large variety of olive, nut/seed oils and balsamic/wine vinegar.  Comment dit on: YUMMM!!!!

Oil & Vinegar’s specialty is their “on-tap” oils and vinegars which consists of a vast variety of options including Peach Pulp Vinegar, Lemon Olive Oil, and Tomato Vinegar.  They also offer some fun sweeter options with items such as their divine Crema al Caffé, a sweet Sicilian cream with coffee.  

So if you looking for that perfectly fabulous hostess present or you just want that perfect gourmet gift for yourself, Oil & Vinegars is the perfect place to delight any palate.  

Art, Wine, & Olive Oil at Trio Carmel

After our night at Hofsas Hotel, Miss Julia Reed Nichols and I decided to explore Carmel-by-the-Sea’s storybook four-block downtown.  Peppered with local Monterey wine tasting rooms and numerous art galleries, it’s the perfect place to intentionally get lost. 

We were doing exactly that when we stumbled across Trio Carmel, which along with being a Monterey wine tasting room AND art gallery, also harbors a delightful amount of space dedicated to the sale of Ultra-Premium Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegars.

Trio encourages its patrons to sample freely; morsels of bread dot the end of each shelf.  But you must save room to fully experience Trio, as there were at least fifty bottles to discover throughout the sleek modern space. 

Some of my favorites included their Fused Blood Orange Olive Oil (made by pressing whole fruit and olives together), the Baklouti Green Chile Olive Oil (which is spicy and green at the same time), and their Garlic Olive Oil (which had a great soft roundness that comes from cloves of roasted garlic). 

Prices were pretty reasonable, around $13 for a bottle or you can get a mini-6-pack for $30.   

We opted for the later, splitting the deal for 3 olive oils each.  The hardest part of the whole tasting was figuring out which unique olive oils made the final cut for future salad dressings! 

As always, hope life is delicious!