Aug 27, 2012

Este Pizza in Sugarhouse, Utah has some great pizza and is in a really cool location.  I pulled up for lunch today, and took about 5 minutes to marvel at the vine wall outside the restaurant.  It reminded me of a kid watching Cubs baseball games on T.V because the wall had the same greed ivy as Wrigley Field in Chicago.  You have to go further East than the...

Aug 24, 2012

I probably never would have tried or even known about this place if it were not for Groupon.  But after buying the $10 for $20 deal, I had to try it.  This place is a breakfast and BBQ diner, the first time in my life I’ve ever heard of that combo. My co-worker had the Chile Verde special.  He said it was okay but nothing fantastic.  This plate was...

Aug 21, 2012

I recently had the chance to enjoy a stay at the Zermatt Lodge in Midway, Utah.  Zermatt is a beautiful Swiss and German themed resort in the back of the Wasatch mountains.  I have to tell you about one of the best food experiences I have ever had there.  I use the term “food experience” and not just “dinner” because to me, it was...

Aug 21, 2012

I never got the opportunity to review this little St. George pizza joint during my last trip there, so I’ll go ahead and correct that now.  Russo’s is a NY style pizza place, meaning thin crust and big slices.  New Yorkers will fold these in half and eat them like a calzone.  On this day I got a slice of pepperoni, chicken bacon, along with some...

Aug 20, 2012

Ruth’s Diner has been doing business in the Salt Lake area for over 80 years, and it is an experience in itself.  A long time ago,  and in a galaxy far, far away, the owner Ruth had to move her restaurant up Emigration Canyon from downtown Salt Lake and that is where it has been since 1949.  You really get a sense of this history from just looking at...