401 Second Street Williamsburg
VA 23185
Food Truck: Donny G’s Salsa – VBC
My name is Chris Galiffa and I am known now as Daddy G. I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia’s Fan District and during my short college career in the early 80’s, I fell in love with a local restaurant called The Texas-Wisconsin Border Cafe. They had this addictive salsa that I just couldn’t get enough of. I spent many days and nights over the years there chowing down salsa and chips, washing it down with an ice cold beer. It was the perfect, I mean perfect snack and I just could never get enough. The Border had a great run for many years but sadly closed in 1999. NOW what was I going to do without that salsa? Seriously, I was in total shock and disbelief thinking I may never taste that incredible stuff ever again. Or so I thought…
A couple years later, I’m hanging with neighbors, one of which was a waitress at The Border, and we start to get nostalgic about that place. She can sense my anguish and then I hear the magic words, “Well I have the Border salsa recipe if you’d like to play around with it.” Oh man, I literally fell out of my chair with joy and after some major hugging she presented the recipe. It was like having the secret map to the Holy Grail for me and the excitement that I could finally taste that salsa again.
The first few attempts were frustrating as I tried to parse the original 50 gallon recipe down to a manageable batch. I tweaked and tweaked and after a few attempts, boom, I finally had the texture and flavor that I remembered, but with a few changes. Two gallons was still a lot of salsa so on “salsa say” I’d called my friends to bring over empty jars. Over the years it started gain cult like status I’d make it to keep up with the demand of my friends, and the friends-of-friends. Little did I know what was next!
ABOUT THE VENUE:
Hosted by: Virginia Beer Company
- 401 2nd St, Williamsburg, VA 23185
- 757-378-2903
- https://www.virginiabeerco.com/
- HOURS Monday-Thursday 3-9PM / Friday & Saturday 12-9:30PM / Sunday 12-9PM
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