May 22, 2013

New to Utah this past month is Pie Five, which has a strong presence in Texas and just opened their first store outside that area near the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon in Holladay.  I’ll be completely honest in this review, this is NOT the best pizza you can get in Utah.  I can think immediately of 5-6 better tasting pizza places.  I think these guys...

Mar 2, 2013

I’m pretty excited to be back in Sugarhouse reviewing the new Flatbread Neapolitan Pizzeria that just opened there recently.  This is now the second member of the VPN here in Utah that I am aware of, joining downtown SLC’s Settebello.  The VPN stands for the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana, which is basically a code of how to make pizzas the...

Jan 26, 2013

The day before leaving Salt Lake City for a Phoenix business trip, my wife and I went for a drive up into the Suncrest neighborhood in Draper, Utah.  The view from South Mountain was like looking out of the plane of a window down towards a thick layer of clouds, only we were not in a plane, but looking down on the Salt Lake Valley.  The inversion pollution...

Jan 15, 2013

As part of my season of discovery in the valley of the Great Salt Lake, I went due West from my office during lunch time and came upon the Village Baker.  I really wanted Village Baker to be located next to a butcher, and a candlestick maker, because the tastes I discovered inside were nursery rhyme good.  Naturally at my office this morning, around 11 am the...

Nov 27, 2012

These guys have had me in suspense for months now and it was driving me crazy.  Malawi’s pizza is now officially open at the Gateway Mall occupying the space where the arcade used to be.  For weeks some of us employees at the Gateway Megaplex would walk over and look into the windows in order to try to figure out what was going up over there.  And...

Nov 13, 2012

Sometimes in my household, I will get home from work on a Friday afternoon, and my wife will give me that “Get me out of here” look.  The kids will be lying upside down on the couch after watching SpongeBob Squarepants for hours.  It is in these situations that a man has to have a game plan.  For me personally, if I have not given much thought...

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 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...

Jul 24, 2012

  Being the food lover I am, I asked many of the people I met during my 2 day Logan, Utah visit to tell me about their favorite places to eat in Logan.  I have a few reoccurring places suggested to me like Angie’s Diner, El Toro Mexican, or La Nonne for some yummy Italian food, however, there was one place that got a resounding “YES!  that...

Jul 2, 2012

 For those Sugar House old-timers, you may remember just across the street from where Boadwalk Pizza now stands, there used to be a Godfather’s Pizza.  I used to love that place, because you got  your money’s worth, there was always 4-5 different pizzas to choose from, and plenty to drink.  In my mind I kinda model all other pizza buffets after...