Dining Guide 2008

POSTED // Feb 13,2009 - 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!

POSTED // Oct 10,2007 - 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.

POSTED // Oct 10,2007 - 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

POSTED // Oct 10,2007 - 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.

POSTED // Oct 10,2007 - 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...

Dining Guide 2007: Whitey’s Guide to Taco Carts

Get ’em while you can. New rules could make street tacos harder to come by.

POSTED // Oct 10,2007 - The key to enjoying a tongue taco is not knowing what you’re eating. That must have the been the reasoning behind assigning the job of reviewing Salt Lake City’s roadside taco stands to the one employee who doesn’t speak a word of Spanish....

Dining Guide 2007: Oh My Hex!

When good restaurants happen to cursed locations.

POSTED // Oct 10,2007 - Astute observers recognize the common cycle: boarded-up windows decorate a once-promising restaurant facade—then a colorful new café takes its place, only to be replaced again with the familiar boarded-up décor. It seems like something...

Dining Guide 2007: Wheels of Fortune

Three wild and cheesy guys use their own hands to give raw milk immortality.

POSTED // Oct 10,2007 - Initially, the idea of making cheese was one that made Pat Ford chuckle. He’s co-partner with Tim Welsh and Stewart Christensen in the Beehive Cheese Co., located in Uintah. Ford was in land development working in his family’s business in...

Dining Guide 2006: Tray Chic

Everything Food & Drink, Served Up Hot!