Dining Guide 2009

City Weekly’s annual round-up of the Top 100 Utah restaurants.

For food and dining enthusiasts, 2009 has been a banner year. Despite a crappy economy, a host of new, enticing restaurants have opened in the communities this paper serves...

Dining Guide 2009 E-K

City Weekly’s annual round-up of the Top 100 Utah restaurants.

With a kitchen full of Chinese chefs via Hong Kong and San Francisco...

Dining Guide 2009 A-D

City Weekly’s annual round-up of the Top 100 Utah eateries.

Dining Guide 2009 S-Z

City Weekly’s annual round-up of the Top 100 Utah restaurants.

Dining Guide 2009 L-R

City Weekly’s annual round-up of the Top 100 Utah eateries.

Dining Guide 2008

Fifteen years ago, I began reviewing restaurants for the Private Eye, which eventually would become City Weekly. And, this month, I officially became City Weekly’s dining editor.

Dining Guide 2007

Yum’s the Word: City Weekly makes your dining experience a piece of cake!

Each morning as I sail down the 600 South off-ramp into the heart of downtown, I see a billboard that reads “Iggy’s? … Or What’s for Dinner?” It’s a good ad—for Iggy’s or anyone else. Because, and I’m...

Dining Guide 2007: Modest Mousse

British pastry chef Martin Perham quietly takes the cake in Utah.

Martin Perham is your typical Brit. He makes a cup of tea you can stand a spoon in. Watching rugby with a pint in his hand is his idea of heaven. But when it comes to making pastries and desserts, the 43-year-old ex-pat couldn’t be further from...

Dining Guide 2007: Five Worth Watching

Opening and operating a restaurant can be a crapshoot. There are at least as many ways to fail as there are to succeed, not to mention wild cards that can ruin the best laid business plan. I’m reminded, for instance, of the way Americans turned...

Dining Guide 2007: Beat the Meat

A primer to discovering veggie delights in meat-loving restaurants.

My last memory of eating cow flesh is foggy but, as I recall, it involved miles of rank manure and a man beating a horse. In retrospect, it’s possible some well-meaning cowboy was simply reining in an obstinate steed, but to a seventh-grade city...