POSTED // Oct 15,2012 - One of the essential components of a quality dining experience—for me, at least—is a well-rounded beverage selection and wine list.

POSTED // Oct 9,2012 - The Park City Area Restaurant Association’s semiannual Park City Cocktail Contest takes place this Friday, Oct. 12, at Deer Valley’s Stein Eriksen Lodge, beginning at 6:30 p.m.

POSTED // Oct 9,2012 - When Shakespeare came up with his “A rose, by any other name” line, he probably wasn’t looking at a menu. Words matter when it comes to food, triggering responses ranging from salivating to stomach-churning.

POSTED // Oct 8,2012 - Some of Italy’s wine-producing regions are among the oldest in the world. Winemaking in Italy predates even the prolific Romans, who produced wine on a very large scale.

POSTED // Oct 2,2012 - There are 101 ways to get lucky on 25th Street. No, we’re not talking about what might happen during a downtown Ogden bar crawl.

POSTED // Oct 2,2012 - Chef Greg Neville and his Lugano crew are busy this fall with a number of events and menu specials.

POSTED // Oct 1,2012 - At least as far back as 1946, when Stick McGhee sang the lyrics later made famous by Jerry Lee Lewis—“Drinkin’ wine spo-dee-o-dee, drinkin’ wine!”—rock & roll has been tethered to the fermented grape.

POSTED // Sep 25,2012 - The first one was free, they said. But all it took was one mouthful of Pop Art popcorn and I was hooked.

POSTED // Sep 25,2012 - The ninth-annual Downtown Dine O’ Round, sponsored by Salt Lake City’s Downtown Alliance, winds down this week, ending Sunday, Sept. 30.

POSTED // Sep 24,2012 - The resurgence of absinthe in the past few years as a spirit of choice has all but ceased the consumption of its more humble cousin: pastis, a liqueur that originated in France following that country’s ban on absinthe.