Amano's new bar is making serious waves in the fine chocolate industry. Seventy Percent is just as impressed and excited for Amano's success as we are! Check out the article here and don't forget to ask for a sample during your next Caputo's visit:

http://www.seventypercent.com/2010/06/amano-chuao/comment-page-1/#comment-4819

The Salt Lake Convention and Visitor's Bureau has recently highlighted lunch and dinner service at Caputo's downtown location.  Contributor Nick Johnson highlights our most famous sandwiches and the reasonable prices attached to them.  Caputo's has been part of Salt Lake's downtown culture for over thirteen years and we are proud to be mentioned on this website!

http://www.visitsaltlake.com/mysaltlake/dining-nightlife/tony-caputos-market-and-deli/

Handmade and Bronze Cut Pasta Direct from the Producer

Tony Caputo has developed a relationship with Maestri Pastai, Italy’s premier artisan of pasta. This relationship allows us to cut out the middle men so our customers save a great deal of money on the finest pasta.

What makes this pasta different from commercially made pasta?

Bronze Cut Pasta: Maestri Pastai makes pasta from two natural ingredients: stone-ground durum flour from the finest hard wheat germ and pure water. These two ingredients, when mixed together and extruded through hand carved bronze dies, produce textured pasta that holds sauce beautifully. The 56 hours of air-drying creates pasta that cooks perfectly al dente.

Commercially produced pasta is typically extruded through Teflon, non-stick dies, and is flash dried in a heated chamber. The Teflon creates a smoother texture that does not hold the sauce as well as bronze cut pasta. The flash drying technique also results in softer pasta and kills proteins in the wheat, requiring additives. Once you have had Maestri Pastai and go back to a store bought brand, the store bought brand will seem mushy and pasty in comparison.

While there are many fine bronze cut and air dried pastas on the market, none of them are available to the public for only $3.95 for 1.1 lbs!

Fresh Truffles Available Year Round

The Caputo family maintains direct relationships with truffle hunters. We are the only retail store in the country to stock fresh truffles 365 days a year from either Italy (Umbria, Piedmont and Puglia) and France (Perigord and Burgundy). Our truffles come straight to us right after they are harvested and are always very fresh. Because there are no middle men involved we are able to sell truffles at retail prices that are the same price wholesalers charge restaurants.

With rare exception, we never run out of truffles so there is no need to pre order for small orders. Just walk in and have our knowledgeable staff help you select your truffles and offer preparation recommendations. Preparing a truffle dish is not as expensive as one might think. We can suggest a dish for 2-4 people that takes full advantage of the truffle's musky and earthy nature for as little as $15-$20 worth of truffles.