Jul 16, 2012

I’m pretty sure that if you are not from South Salt Lake, there is no way you would ever expect to find this place.  I work not too far away, and only found it through a mutual friend, but Town and Country market is home to some great tasting sandwiches, that are VERY well proportioned and absurdly affordable prices.  Downtown residents may point to...

Jun 27, 2012

I first heard of Johnny Kolache on sports radio during my morning commute to work, then I saw a special on kolache on the Food Network and knew I had to try them.  What is a kolache?  Basically it is a pastry made by Czech immigrants that settled in Texas and Oklahoma.  It is a soft dough pastry with an indent down the middle where they typically put some...

May 17, 2012

I’m a huge fan of the “Man vs. Food” T.V show on the Travel Channel.  In fact Adam just celebrated a birthday a few days ago.  In celebration of the event, I decided it was time to channel my inner Adam, and search out a challenge in the SLC area.  I had driven by Lucky 13 several times in South Salt Lake just west of Spring Mobile Ballpark...

May 8, 2012

Yesterday afternoon I left the office early and decided to try a new place for lunch and desert.  I was driving north on 300 W and I recalled several times before passing a cookie place on the NW corner of 800 S.  The tag line stood out to me “You know you want my cookies”.  Yes it is true, I’m a lover of cookies so it was inevitable that...

Mar 18, 2012

I was scrolling through last week’s Groupon offering and one stood out for Penny Ann’s Cafe.  It had a picture of tasty looking sandwich and was $6 dollars for $12 dollars worth of food.  It was well worth the purchase, because I now have a new awesome diner to add to FoodRadar.  I set off during my lunch hour to find Penny Ann’s.  It was...

Mar 11, 2012

If La Hacienda was an American Idol contestant, then Randy Jackson would emphatically say “La Hacienda is in it to win it!!!”.  Let’s say that American Idol came to Salt Lake City for auditions, but instead of contestants you had restaurants.  There are thousands of eating establishments in the Salt Lake Valley that would audition and most...

Jan 18, 2012

Granato’s 1391 South 300 West Salt Lake City, UT 84115 http://granatos.com/cart/ Hopefully by now I have given you plenty of food choices here in the city of the Great Salt Lake.  FoodRadar will not steer you wrong, in fact if you have lunch every day at any of these places, I promise multiple spirital experiences, including visions, shakings,...

Jan 9, 2012

Pat’s BBQ 155 W Commonwealth Avenue (2125 South) Salt Lake City, UT 84115 http://www.patsbbq.com It took me 6 posts to get around to my all-time favorite food, barbecue!!!  Ever since I was a little kid I’ve had a love affair with anything barbecue related.  It began with just an infatuation with barbecue sauce.  I would put BBQ sauce on my...