Salty Tongue, Urban Deli

Located beside the Heather, this is the most recent of our projects. By living in Gastown the Heather family, Roisin, Erin, Ogie & Sean knew that there wasn’t anywhere in the hood to buy artisan bread, cheese, Italian Water, Spanish Olives, etc. We believe that we identified the need and if our neighbor’s response is a gauge we have filled that need. Architects and city planners are delighted with the Salty Tongue as it speaks volumes for the progress of Gastown……the hood can now support a deli!

Why Salty Tongue?

I fell in love with the expression a couple of years ago while channel surfing I stumbled upon an interview with famed Irishman Bono. In it he described himself as an “Irishman with a salty tongue” (sailor talk for swears a lot) and I thought that it would fit perfectly on a deli owned by an Irish person. Love it or hate it nobody ever forgets it and as a graphics pal of mine remarked “that’s golden”