Apr 6, 2013

Boulevard Bistro is a new restaurant up on Foothill Drive in front of Dan’s Market.  The building was beautiful, with both indoor and outdoor seating.  Upon entering the restaurant a few things stood out.  First, there was a huge display of gelato in the entry way.  I loved it.  Second, we were greeted right away even though the place was very busy,...

Mar 23, 2013

I remember the first time I went to the Copper Onion, I had heard so much about it from friends, colleagues, and fellow bloggers.  When I finally got a chance to visit, it did not disappoint.  I can say the exact same thing about Eva.  I have had a running “Places to Visit” list on my iPhone for the past 6 months.  It started out with just 10-15...

Feb 24, 2013

  Scored myself a heck of a Groupon deal last Saturday when I took my family down to the Museum of Natural History, and then to lunch at Harvest Restaurant.  For $35 we got entrance to the museum, and then a $50 dollar gift card to the restaurant. When our hostess showed us to the table, my kids were impressed with how fancy everything was.  Check out...

Feb 12, 2013

This meal was brought to me by the letter Z and the letter Y.  Oddly enough I wasn’t on Sesame Street, but State Street in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah.  ZY Restaurant is pronounced (zai) instead of sounding out the Z and Y separately.  ZY is an upscale food, wine, and cheese bar and the food was fantastic.  The space was particularly interesting to...

Feb 10, 2013

Found this place today, and already feel comfortable ranking it among my favorite places to eat.  Of my family of 5 there were 5 solid votes that this place was awesome.  Even little Levi kept chugging down his freshly made soup.  (Disclaimer:  Levi puts anything you place in front of him in his mouth.  He’s kinda a big boy) As we got out of our van...

Feb 3, 2013

The Tuck Shop is the epitome of the types of places I love to find.  While in Phoenix, we were just finishing up our 4 day trip and on our way back to the airport.  The driver of our rental car had come to Phoenix on business various times over the past year, and he was going to take us to a place that he and found previously.  He explained that on one...

Jan 28, 2013

HillStone is one of the classiest places I’ve been to in a long long time.  From the outside entrance of the restaurant to the inner reception area, HillStone gives you full visibility to pretty much their entire operation.  As you can see from the upper photo, you can see right back into the preparation area.  I just stood there after dinner for a few...

Jan 2, 2013

Archibald’s located at Gardner Village is located in South Jordan, Utah.  Let me see if I can take this opening paragraph to describe Gardner Village for you.  It is arts and crafty type place located on several acres filled with little shops, and always decorated well during the holiday seasons.  Guys – You won’t find any manly stores here...

Dec 17, 2012

 On a recent trip to St. Louis, I really wanted to pick a nice place to eat, where I would have access to view a television in order to watch the election results come in.  (Yes I’m a little late in writing this review)  I only had Yelp and Urbanspoon to go off of, but there was one place that caught my eye in between those two apps, and that was...

Nov 29, 2012

I have received a number of Darden gift cards in my day, and up until this week the only SLC choices have been Olive Garden and Red Lobster. Well SLC now has a third Darden offering opening next week and that is Longhorn Steakhouse. Turns out these Texas boys know a thing or two about preparing delicious steak, fish, and chicken. Tonight my wife and I had a...