“It’s not your average pizza parlour,” says Posto Pizzeria and Bar general manager Curtis Gallinger. Indeed, the pizzeria and bar takes pizzas in unexpected directions. Special, house-made crusts and Italian deli-style meats co-mingle with leeks, gorgonzola, figs and other unique ingredients.
Serve it up in a rustic, wood-panelled room with an initmate, urban vibe, and Posto's reputation precedes itself. It's a hip hang-out where patrons might just drop in for a glass of good wine or a pint of craft beer with antipasti or a full meal. Also, a wild boar’s head above the bar makes for a nice conversation piece regardless of whether it’s lunch, dinner or time for evening drinks.
“I like to describe Posto as Bonterra’s hip younger brother or sister,” says Curtis of highly acclaimed Bonterra Trattoria, its next-door Italian eatery.
Set in a small but refined space on 10th Avenue SW, Posto Pizzeria & Bar – attached to next-door Bonterra Restaurant – brings a curious side of Italy to Calgary’s Beltline with its creative pizza toppings and piatti offerings. Go nutty with its chicken pizza pie with almond pesto, goat cheese and red peppers or reel in some slices of smoked salmon pie with leek, caper, crème fraiche and lemon. For shared piatti, the swordfish bresaola with capers, lemon and arugula is a fan favourite.
Situated right beside Bonterra, its fancier sister restaurant, Posto may not be big, but it packs a mighty punch. This is thin-crust at its finest, with largely authentic Italian toppings. The 10 pizzas on Posto’s regular menu are all winners, but the potato pizza with crème fraiche, leek and smoked pancetta is a cult favourite for good reason.
Bonterra Trattoria’s sister restaurant and next door neighbour, Posto specializes in richly topped thin-crust pizzas, but it also features some nice pastas for those hankering for noodles rather than flatbread. The black pepper linguine is topped with a nice portion of mussels as well as prosciutto, leeks, tomato and fresno chili.