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...
350 Main New American Brasserie
The menu at 350 Main New American brasserie showcases chef Michael LeClerc's contemporary flair for seafood and beyond. A Culinary Institute of America graduate, LeC
Sage's Cafe
Although vegetarian restaurants aren't really my forte, Sage's has won me over. I'm not alone. For eight years straight, Sage's Café has won City Weekly's Best of Utah award
La Macarena
Dining at La Macarena is as close to a south-of-the-border experience as you're likely to find without leaving the state. Grab yourself a table, order an icy cold Corona, agua fresca or
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...