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25 years 64 features

lake effect by jeremy pugh a n d g l e n w AR C H O L

Wunder Under crop pant, Lululemon at Trolley Square, $72; Energy Bra, Lululemon at Trolley Square, $48; Singlet, Lululemon at Trolley Square, $52

Beyond the Great Salt Lake’s stinky reputation lies an ecological wonder.

70 the evolution of beauty

by mary brown malouf

From street to gym, workout wear has stepped up its style.

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Your survival guide to Utah’s food, fashion, arts and everything else.

Denise Druce Discipline: Yoga

Denise Druce has been described as the “Queen Mother” of fitness in SLC. “I learned aerobics from Jane Fonda and taught my first aerobics in 1981 on green shag carpeting in my bare feet,” she says. “Back then, no training was required except a bit of dance background and a boombox.” Since then, Druce has stayed on top of trends, from highimpact aerobics to spinning to weight resistance to yoga. She’s a Master Trainer for Schwinn Cycling, co-founder of The Wellness Network and a Lululemon Ambassador. And she’s the director of Yoga Teacher Training at the U of U. “I just fell in love with seeing people smile and sweat.” Studio: University of Utah Yoga Teacher Training/Other Classes

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Everything you need to survive and thrive in the Beehive.

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Alaska: Into the Blue

Experience Alaska’s untamed wilds intimately and sustainably. by glen warchol and mary brown malouf

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Hold Your Breath for Clean Air

Why clean-air activists are praying for horrible inversions. by glen warchol

outdoors

In Full Bloom

Where the wild things grow. by pippa keene

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on the table

Your Guide to Utah Pizza Two dozen pizzas fit for the Don, and a few that could have been contenders. by mary brown malouf

24 up close

Catherine deVries’ nonprofit goes global for health care.

by jaime winston

26 homestead At Mountain West Fine Art, the sky is turned upside-down. by mary brown malouf

28 Shop Your iPhone’s clock app is no match for these timepieces. by linsy hunsaker

30 luxe Diamonds are forever and 24-7. by mary brown malouf

32 style Get a hot, new summer look for less than $100. by jessica adams

34 hot dish

Everything you should know about mozzarella in Utah. by Mary Brown Malouf

36 sport Kickball is Salt Lake’s most social sport. by jaime winston

38 hot ticket

Great music for America’s Best Idea.

by linsy hunsaker

54 faces The face of Craft Lake City, photographing autism and love for Utah’s nonprofits. by jaime winston and doridÉ uvaldo

56 a&e The Twilight Concert Series’ new boss, DIY ballet meets its music match. by glen warchol

91 dining guide

Utah’s best guide to eating out and eating well. by mary brown malouf

125 on the town

SLC’s top fundraisers, festivals and more. by jaime winston

128 my turn

A lesson on hope from an old mistake. by john shuff

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Get Crafty Drop by the Craft Lake City DIY Festival to find everything from silk-screened posters to handmade jewelry to live music. Our photographer will be snapping shots for the photos page on slmag.com, so smile for our camera. This year’s Craft Lake City DIY Festival will be held at the Gallivan Center, Aug. 8–9.

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feedback Editor’s note: Last April, Ballet West’s resident choreographer Nicolo Fonte paid tribute to Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. We held a giveaway for tickets on slmag.com, and quickly heard back from the winner. I wanted to send a note and say thank you for the Ballet West Rite of Spring tickets. My husband and I attended their performance Saturday evening. What a wonderful performance! We enjoyed ourselves very much and want you to know how much we appreciate Salt Lake magazine giving us this opportunity. We also appreciate the way Salt Lake magazine shares info about things and opportunities that are available to us, right here in our own communities. Opportunities that we might not hear about otherwise. —Karyn Halls, Cedar Hills

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saying Utah restaurants need to step up their game in service. I was so glad to see Mary Brown Malouf call out the lack of service at the great restaurants we finally have in Salt Lake. We moved here from the Northeast eight years ago, and while we are glad that the fine dining options have improved, it is frustrating that service has not. When you enjoy a good meal and spend good money on it, slow service from a waitstaff that could care less about you makes it much less enjoyable. —Holly Ricker, Salt Lake City I would like to personally extend my thanks and gratitude to you and your work with our property in this year’s Salt Lake magazine 2014 Dining Awards. We are honored to have our J&G Grill hold the title it received and appreciate all you have done for us. On behalf of our director of sales and marketing Brandon Hendricks and our whole team here at St. Regis Deer Valley, we thank you. —Edward Shapard, General Manager, St. Regis Deer Valley

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on the lighter side of journalism, I have written more “best ofs” than I can count. I’ve been writing them for this publication for eight years; before that, it was the best of Dallas for 15 years. For Salt Lake magazine’s March/April issue, I determine what I think the best restaurants are, then for July/August, I help decide the Best of the Beehive (page 77). It’s a tsunami of superlatives. Yes, it can be daunting. And jading. But it can also be inspiring and renewing. Examining all the people, places and things that I know are great in Utah gives me a refreshed affection for the place I live. I’ve always loved the Great Salt Lake itself—we spend Thanksgiving and Easter on Antelope Island (if that sounds strange, you need to get out there). Learning more about our city’s namesake (page 64) only increases my connection to the place. But more remarkable is that every new scrutiny of this community introduces me to people and things I didn’t know were out there. Like the extraordinary women who “modeled” for our workout wear article (page 70)—inspirational in their commitment to physical and spiritual health, whatever their age or career.

Through Dave Jones, chef at Log Haven (page 77), whose interest in foraging earned him a culinary “best of,” I met Dr. Ty Harrison, retired Westminster biology professor and expert on local flora. Harrison is passionate about Utah plants—he helped design Hidden Hollow in Sugar House with native plants as an example of a “naturescape” that could be used as a model for residential or commercial xeriscaping. And he’s an avid forager, harvesting from the Utah countryside the natural edibles he says can be found in every season. When we talked, he was about to start collecting his annual supply of dandelions. He has a recipe for dandelion quiche. Who knew? And that’s what I mean: When foraging for “best ofs” we find marvels all around. And, cynics, don’t despair—we found plenty to be negative about in our Wasatch Faults (page 88). Note: Look for Dr. Harrison’s monthly blog “Foraging Utah” at On the Table, saltlakemagazine.com

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observing and curating the culture of Utah. A few years into the enterprise, we started judging it too, in our annual Wasatch Faults and Best of the Beehive articles that spotlight the best, the worst, the stupidest and the smartest people, places and things in our beloved Beehive. This year’s picks are on page 77. Take a look back and see what’s changed. And what hasn’t. THEN: In 1998, we named City Creek Grill the best cigar bar in the city. NOW: There’s no smoking, period, including E-cigarettes and hookahs, in Salt Lake public places, including bars. THEN: In “The Utah 100” in 1998, we named the best hotel lobby: The Hotel Utah. This Utah landmark once had the “largest and finest bar in the West.” NOW: The Hotel Utah has long since been

swallowed up by the LDS vaticanization of Main Street—it’s now the Joseph Smith Memorial Building and, sadly, has no bar. THEN: In 1995, Governor Michael Leavitt appointed the first drinker to the state’s 5-member liquor commission. NOW: There is still only one drinker, Jeff Wright, on the state’s now seven-member liquor commission. Is this the only place that a government official is routinely identified as a “social drinker?” THEN: In 2000, we thought it was funny that then-Gov. Michael Leavitt created the position of Obscenity and Pornography Complaints Ombudsman—the country’s first “porn czar” (actually it was virgin czarina, Paula Houston). NOW: A Harvard study recently found that Utah leads the nation in paying for online porn. THEN: In 1998, we called The Dodo’s artichoke pie the “best use of a piecrust.” NOW: Despite the spectacular evolution of the local food scene, artichoke pie is still on The Dodo’s menu. s a lt l a k e m a g a z i n e . c o m jul/aug 2014

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City’s Primary Children’s Hospital, but as president and founder of IVUmed, she sends doctors and urology residents around the world to train local medical professionals in countries with few resources. DeVries realized the need for more urologists in developing countries as a Stanford resident from her professor Don Laub, founder of Interplast, a nonprofit that offers reconstructive surgery for injuries and deformities to the world’s poor. “Everywhere they went to take care of cleft lips and palettes, they also found little kids who had genital abnormalities or congenital problems,” DeVries says. She helped kick off a short-lived genitourinary reconstruction program with Interplast. To continue the program, in 1994 DeVries started her own nonprofit, IVUmed, in Honduras and Vietnam. Today, it provides medical care to kids in Asia, Latin America, Africa and in West Bank in the Palestinian territories.

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“When we started in Vietnam, they had done less than 80 pediatric urological operations—total—in the year we started,” she says. “Now, 20 years later, they not only do a full range of surgery serving all of South and Central Vietnam, but also have a teaching program of their own—it’s exactly what we hoped for.” IVUmed’s impact, deVries says, is that it doesn’t simply provide care, then leave. Instead, the physicians build long-term relationships in the host countries. “When I think about my colleagues all over the world,” deVries says, “they really are like family.” Beyond IVUmed, deVries’ supports global healthcare in other ways. She is the director of the University of Utah Center for Global Surgery, a member of the Global Alliance for Elimination of Filariasis, a parasitic disease spread by flies and mosquitoes that can lead to blindness, and she shares her experiences with students as a professor of surgery at the University of Utah. When she needs to escape the world, she spends time with her husband Scott Lucas, caring for the animals at their ranch south of Evanston, Wyo. Join IVUmed for A Round for Men’s Health golf tournament at Park City Golf Club on Aug. 1. Proceeds benefit men’s health awareness, research and surgical education. More info at ivumed.org

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brought him into their gallery project. As a production designer who creates sets for all kinds of projects, Hofeling brings an out-of-the-box approach to interior design. For the Modern West gallery, Hofeling wanted different gradations of color in the wood planks—he separated the hickory panels into five different piles, giving each pile a different amount of stain, then pieced each panel back into place. The paintstaking process resulted in a sky-like mesmerizing undulation of blues. Hey. Don’t forget to look at the walls. There is art there, too Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-355-3383

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1111 E. 2100 South, SLC, 801-467-5815 1. Wear the descendent of Sir Edmund Hillary’s watch—the one he wore for the first-ever summit of Everest. Rolex Explorer, $6,550, O.C. Tanner, SLC 2. If you’re in it for the mechanics, try a Patek Philippe. Their annual calendar has the time, moon phase, date and comes in all white gold, of course. Patek Philippe Annual Calendar, $51,500, O.C. Tanner, SLC 3. Sprout is constantly changing their designs as they strive for the most eco-friendly and unique watches around. Sprout, prices and styles vary, Unhinged, Provo

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For Christopher Howard of Fankhauser Jewelry, it’s all about the insides. He got into the watch business through his love of mechanics, but for most people, watches are “just a status symbol,” Howard says. After all, your phone or $10 watch can keep time just fine, but a Rolex is still a Rolex. If you want to jump on the status train, but don’t have thousands to shell out, Fankhauser sells vintage watches and jewelry—all refurbished by Howard.

4. If you’re not ready to forsake your Droid for the sake of tradition, Pebble meets you in the middle (and yes, it syncs with your phone). Pebble, $149.99, Best Buy 5. Whether you like trekking across the Alps or in your local park, the Suunto suits you. It monitors your heart rate, location and the weather. Suunto Vector HR Altimeter, $299, backcountry.com 6. The watch of the ‘80s is back. In fact, it never really left. It even has artists like Olaf Hajek to class it up. Swatch Flowerhead, $70, swatch.com

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The Black and white on diamonds “Back in the day, there were lots of rules about who could wear diamonds when,” says Curtis Bennett, vice president of O.C. Tanner. “You weren’t supposed to wear diamonds in the daytime. Unmarried women weren’t supposed to wear diamonds. Only royalty could wear fancy colored diamonds.” But we live in a rule-breaking time when trends often trump tradition. So leave your preconceptions at the jeweler’s door. First of all, size is not the most impressive thing about a stone. Brilliance, the flashiest quality of a diamond, is obvious to the eye, but results from the complicated mathematics and skill of diamond cutters. “Tiffany’s only accepts two percent of the diamonds inspected by our experts,” says Julie Peterson, manager of Tiffany & Co. in City Creek. “The industry has set standards in terms of clarity and grading. We grade our own diamonds and we

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grade conservatively. That is, any appraiser will accept the grade given by Tiffany’s.” Tiffany’s has proprietary cuts, and every stone gets 57 facets, no matter the size. “We don’t do “simple” cuts, meaning half the facets,” says Peterson. “And we will sacrifice more of the raw stone to get a perfect cut.” Recently, colored diamonds, especially yellow ones, have become popular, Peterson and Bennett agree. Only one in 10,000 diamonds is designated a fancy colored diamond, with the required clarity and deepness of color, but they come in myriad hues: blue, pink, green, yellow, brown and black. “Lately,” says Bennett, “black diamonds have become a major element in fashion jewelry.” Not only that, he says, but rough-cut and even un-cut diamonds are being set in fine jewelry. “The great thing is,” he says, “you can wear these diamonds anytime.”

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Outfits for $100 Salt Lake magazine’s Style editor Jessica Adams shows us how to get the hottest summer outfits for under $100. For more tips from Jessica, read Fashion Friday online.

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Summer’s Favorite Cheese Mild and milky mozzarella Some quotes come up in the food-writing

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business all the time. Like, “I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.” W.C. Fields “Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.” Mark Twain “Cheese is milk’s leap toward immortality.” Clifton Fadiman I think of the Fadiman phrase every time I eat fresh mozzarella, because this cheese is a failed leap toward immortality. Mozzarella is barely a step, hardly a leap, away from milk, and it’s highly perishable, hardly immortal. The mozzarella made south of Naples from water buffalo milk is probably the best in the world. But since freshness is key, the mozzarella you just pulled from its water bath might be the best available—it will be made from cow’s milk and called fior de latte. More and more delis, groceries, specialty food shops and even restaurants in Salt Lake City make their own mozzarella, though, so always ask before you buy. The mozzarella on most commercial pizza is different, it’s older and dryer, so it melts differently. Fresh mozzarella on pizza with fresh tomatoes and basil is a summer dream dish. But try it with other fresh herbs and with fruit. Mild and milky mozzarella is also a great breakfast cheese. Buy fresh mozzarella at Zucca’s Trattoria and Deli in Ogden, Caputo’s Market and Deli on 15th & 15th and downtown, Liberty Heights Fresh and Harmons. If you want to learn how to make mozzarella at home, keep an eye on Harmons’ stores’ cooking class schedule—mozzarella-making shows up from time to time. harmonsgrocery.com

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Name Game

A good kickball team deserves a good name. Here are some of our faves: Kolob’s Finest 2 Kegs 1 Cup Holy WAKAmoly! Stephen Hawking’s Legs All My Pitches Love Me Seven Deadly Shins For inspiration, Kevin Barland, pitcher and shortstop for the Seven Deadly Shins, says he turns to urbandictionary.com.

Kickball just might be Utah’s most social sport.

Wesley Watson admits it—his team got creamed.

RiKICKulousness! (spelled correctly) lost their first game, 21 to 1, to the Wrecking Balls last April. Watson, one of his team’s few males, blames the loss on the team being mostly rookies but doesn’t let it get to him. “It’s fun,” he says, as a last few drops of base-running sweat roll off his forehead and he lights a smoke. “It reminds me of elementary.” Besides, Watson learned a few tricks. “If you’re just trying to get to first, give it a little bunt,” he says. “If you want to try for a home run, give it everything you’ve got.” The World Adult Kickball Association (WAKA) started in Washington, DC and spread across America. Made popular by grade school gym class, kickball is like baseball, but with a rolling ball you kick instead of a airborne ball you club. Utah has three mixed-gender leagues: UT Mountain holds games at the Cottonwood Complex in Millcreek, the UT Beach at Flat Iron Mesa Park in Sandy, and UT Capital league, where RiKICKulousness! plays, hosts games at Liberty Park. Kenzie Kemp, UT Capital and UT Beach community coordinator, says Watson’s relaxed attitude is common among players. “There are some competitive teams, but

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A base kick at a WAKA game in Liberty Park, Salt Lake City.

it’s more fun than anything,” she says. “Come with a good attitude and you’ll have a blast.” After games, players go drinking at whatever bar sponsors the season. “They do drink and food specials for us,” Kemp says. “We get to know the other teams and get to know our own players.” For UT Capital, it was Poplar Street Pub last season. The league also gave back by raising money for healthcare nonprofit One Hour for Life through bar games, raffles and even a bake sale. All players must be over 21 and can sign up with friends, co-workers or as free agents. Kemp says 16 to 18 players makes a good team, but the max is 26. Robby Luck, who works for a physical therapist and has played about 20 seasons, loves drinking at the bar and meeting new people. “I run our team this year,” he says. “There are 20 people and not one of us does the same thing.” Watson, who runs a ceiling grid tie wire business, loves kickball so far but makes another confession. “I wasn’t expecting it to be so physical,” he says. “It doesn’t look like much until you have to chase the ball down the field.” A new season starts this July. Info at kickball.com.

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Soundtrack for the spectacular Utah Symphony rocks out in Utah’s national parks.

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Visit SLmag.com for performance dates and locations. Sometimes even Utahns forget that the spectacularly wild backdrop to so many films and ads is actually our state. Fusing the best of our landscape and culture, the Utah Symphony will celebrate its 75th anniversary and the first century of the state’s five national parks with The Mighty 5 Tour in August. The full orchestra will play twilight concerts with the parks’ wild beauty in the background. Chamber ensembles will take the music inside Capitol Reef and Arches. Swiss-born

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conductor Thierry Fischer was awestruck when he first visited southern Utah. “One could almost imagine an accompaniment of classical music echoing off the red rocks and canyons. The Mighty 5 Tour is a great opportunity to combine the beauty of nature and transcendent energy of sound.” To complement the experience, the parks will host educational activities throughout the tour. utahsymphony.org/mighty5 —by Linsy Hunsaker

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The Wilderness Explorer, making a run between Sitka and Juneau, Alaska

What to take:

The best pair of binoculars you can afford and a pair of Wellies.

Alaska: Into the Blue “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out… wilderness is a necessity.” –John Muir

By Mary Brown Malouf

n the 21st century, wilderness is mostly an illusion. Even in Utah, you only get a taste of it in national parks and designated wilderness areas. A sense of the vastness of nature is hard to come by in the Lower 48. Only a journey through the archipelago of Southeast Alaska offers a real glimpse into one of the last big places. There’s nothing like viewing a cracking, booming glacier from a kayak to make a human feel small. s a lt l a k e m a g a z i n e . c o m jul/aug 2014

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The best way to see Alaska is on the water or in the air. If you opt for water, find a small boat, not a cruise ship. Otherwise you experience a floating city, rather than the Alaskan wild. Un-Cruise Adventures lives up to its name. Forget the shuffleboard and giant buffets—this company is committed to showing you what’s out there. Small, environmentally sensitive crafts are able to go into places, and linger, where larger ships are prohibited, allowing travelers to get off the boat and experience Alaska face-to-rockface. un-cruise.com

The ship

Un-Cruise ships vary in degrees of luxury, but all are small enough to get close to the land, ice and animals. We boarded the Wilderness Explorer, a 186-foot ship that holds only 74 guests in 37 cabins. The Wilderness Explorer looked like a rowboat compared to the cruise lines’ floating cities we encountered, but its three-to-one guest to crew ratio and cozy size meant a voyage both personal and unforgettable.

Your fearless leader

Every voyage has an excursion leader who plans the day’s activities—ours was Randall Tate who spends winters in Antarctica and summers in Alaska. But he’s familiar with some landlocked wilderness, too: When he heard we were from Utah, he asked “Have you ever been to Hell’s Backbone?” Tate recharted the ship’s route with the captain according to the weather and whales spotted. The crew is young and knowledgeable–a passionate group of naturalists, botanists, geologists and biologists, including a poet and a musician or two.

Hike the muskeg

“Muskeg” is the Cree word for bog, the kind of squishy acidic meadows found in Alaskan and other boreal forests. The muskeg is a weird glade of small ponds clogged with yellow lilies, bonsai-sized trees, clumps of carnivorous sundew and apparently equally carnivorous mosquitoes surrounded by stands of Sitka spruce and hemlock.

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Take your two-person kayak through flocks of murres, marbled murrelets and sea ducks to the shoreline cliffs where bald eagles nest and puffins roost.

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Whether your trip begins or ends in Juneau, make sure you leave time to eat at Tracy’s King Crab Shack—serving crab bisque, crab cakes and king crab legs with butter and beer. Yes, Tracy claims to have “the best legs in town.” 356 S. Franklin St., Juneau, AK, 907723-1811, kingcrabshack.com

Big mammals

Whales are number one on the most-wanted-to-see list of every passenger— every day. The endangered giants migrate from Hawaii to their feeding grounds in Alaska. The Wilderness Explorer is so small it can weave slowly amid the playful mammoths, hear them breathing and reverberate with the impact when they breach and then hit the water in a 79,000-pound bellyflop.

What to buy:

Souvenirs made by native Alaskans, like the traditional crescent-shaped Tlingit ulu knife.

What to read

Travels in Alaska, John Muir. The patron saint of American wilderness spent months in Alaska and Glacier Bay over the course of several years. A student of glaciology who believed ice had helped form his beloved Yosemite Valley, he was particularly excited to see live glaciers. You will be, too.

Wildlife

We saw bears on land through our binoculars, but in a skiff outing to Marble Island, no visual aid was necessary: The Steller’s sea lions lie in back-toback masses, the giant beach masters challenging each other’s piece of rock with roars and bared teeth. Harbor seals pop out of the water like jack-in-the-box clowns spying on the boat, harbor seal families ride by on ice floes and sea otters backstroke while they open mussels on their tummies. It’s a Disneyland of arctic fauna cavorting in a sea dotted with improbablly blue icebergs.

Blue ice

The huge chunks of glacial ice in the water and on the rocky shores are shockingly blue, almost turquoise, because the extreme density of the ice compressed over millions of years absorbs every other color of the spectrum except blue.

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Glacier Bay National Park

No place in all of this national park’s 3.3-million acres is more than 30 miles from the water. Glacier Bay, at the heart of Alaska’s fabled Inside Passage is just a part of a 25-million acre World Heritage Site, one of the world’s largest international protected areas.

Novo Arkhangelsk

Un-cruises begin or end in Sitka, a tiny (pop. 9,000) town barely clinging to the continent. Dominated by the onion dome of the Cathedral of St. Michael, the town was called Novo Arkhangelsk when it was under Russian rule, and a distinct Russian flavor still overlays the native Tlingit village. Some of the church icons date back to the 1600s.

Even a 186-foot boat committed to sustainability needs a well-stocked bar. A pre-lunch Bloody Mary at the Douglas Fir bar or carried out on the open deck for wildlife viewing became a daily ritual after the morning excursion, and sipping a blue cocktail—chilled by a sliver of million-year-old blue glacial ice—is undeniably thrilling.

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Hold Your Breath for Clean Air Activists say now’s the time to remember Utah’s inversion. By glen warchol

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No postcard: Salt Lake’s health and economic future is clouded by pollution.

r. Brian Moench, president of Physicians for a Healthy

Environment; Cherise Udell, founder of Utah Moms for Clean Air and Matt Pacenza, policy director for HEAL Utah have a dirty secret in common: They’re hoping for a really bad inversion next winter. To be fair, what they really want is fortuitous timing in the arrival of the Wasatch Front’s annual air pollution horror. Last year, weather conditions conspired to shroud the valley in choking, particulate-laden smog

just in time for the kick-off of the 2014 State Legislature. A rally for clean air at the Capitol drew 4,000 angry residents who clamored for action on the dirty air that is threatening their health, their children’s health, economic development and the otherwise fluffy reputation of winter in Utah. It even motivated many lawmakers, who could no longer ignore a problem that was stinging their eyes. “We were in the awkward position of hoping for a hard inversion,” s a lt l a k e m a g a z i n e . c o m jul/aug 2014

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Says Moench: “It was an illustration of the frailties of the human psyche; we have short memories and we focus on immediate needs. It’s something we have to fight against. We know the problem will not go away by itself. This can’t be a temporary commitment.” A mild inversion season would be a major set back for the cause, agrees Pacenza of Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah. But, the governor’s change of heart is significant for cleaner air. Industries are monitored by state regulators, the Division of Air Quality and its

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Above: Cherise Udell, founder of Utah Moms for Clean Air. utahmomsforcleanair.org Right: Matt Pacenza, policy director for HEAL Utah healutah.org

Moench says with a laugh. “If the pollution was light, it would be hard to get a turnout.” Udell says the inversion brought the conservative, industry friendly lawmakers an onslaught of letters and emails they couldn’t ignore. Consequently, lawmakers sponsored nearly 30—a record number—of clean-air proposals, from tax credits for buying transit passes (failed) to creating a resource coordinator (passed). One of the big wins, however, was a turnabout by Gov. Gary Herbert, whose campaign is heavily funded by industry. “Last year he was our arch-nemesis, then, he had an epiphany. I don’t know where that came from,” Udell says. Perhaps part of it was the “Moms’” relentless attacks on Herbert. “I skewered him in an op-ed piece,” Udell acknowledges. “I went for the arteries.” Clean-air advocates were optimistic about the session. Then, as the 45-day legislative session entered its final weeks, the air up and got better. And the progress of most of the bills stalled. In the end, nine clean-air bills passed, including tax credits and grants for schools and citizens to transition to less-polluting vehicles and a plan to reduce wood burning. The small victories gave hope for the next session, but were not, Pacenza says, “earth shattering.” The unlucky timing of a couple of storms followed by blue skies froze any “game-changing” legislation, Udell says. “Unfortunately, more would have been accomplished if the inversion had lasted longer. By the end of the session, [the proposals] had petered out in large part because the air cleared up.”

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Above: Salt Lake’s winter pollution often vies with that of Beijing, but its fickleness allows lawmakers to ignore it. But last year’s smog drove hundreds of protestors up Capitol Hill (below).

board, who are appointed by the governor. “It’s hard for citizens to play a role in it. [HEAL is] paying attention to the details and will try to tweak the sausage,” he says. “Little by little, we are turning the ship around.” Pacenza says the biggest boost—aside from the initially rotten air—was economic development promoters warning lawmakers the bad air “was an economic threat.” Committees heard anecdotes about corporate decision makers who loved the idea of moving to Utah, then visited during an inversion and balked, saying they couldn’t risk their employees’ and families’ health. “We heard more than one of those stories,” Udell says. Though air is relatively clear now—except for the less-visible, still-unhealthy summer ozone pollution—clean-air activists are trying to keep momentum into next winter. The push at the 2015 Legislature, Moench says, will be a bill to allow the state to set its own pollution standards— unhampered by federal law and to lobby for a philosophical shift away from spending on highway construction, which only contributes to the air problem, to mass transit expansion. In short: game changers.

Waiting for the moral majority Physicians for a Healthy Environment have clout with lawmakers because they credibly speak to the health implications of pollution, which extend beyond respiratory issues and cancer to pregnancy complications and crippling depression. “Some lawmakers insist on seeing us as radicals,” says Brian Moench, the group’s president. “We are trying to help people understand what air pollution is doing to us and our children. Protecting public health should take priority over anything else. People who think we can have economic development without clean air are mistaken.” But the physicians understand how Utah politics work: The pleas from doctors and even moms may not move lawmakers, but a word from the LDS Church likely would. “With a disproportionate effect on children and children in the womb,” says Moench, “this is nothing less than a moral issue.” Moench says the group met with high Mormon Church officials in 2009. “We asked for some specific things—I don’t want to reveal too much. But we didn’t get the response, and certainly not the urgency, we had hoped for.” uphe.org

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Head to the Wasatch in July and August to witness a splendid display of natural Technicolor. By pippa keene

ky Pilot, Lambstongue Groundsel, Owlsclaws, Cliff Anemone, Prince’s Plume, Elephant Head Lousewort, Whipple’s Beardtongue, Hooded Ladies-tresses, Rosy Pussytoes, Nettle-leaf Horsemint and Sticky Cinquefoil, are a mouthful to say but pure beauty to behold. If you would like to put a name to a face, so to speak, slip on some light hikers, strap on a daypack, slather on some sunscreen and you are ready to search for the high mountain’s secret stash of beauty: meadows painted like murals with wildflowers.

And if you think wildflowers only bloom in the spring, think again. Due to the high altitude of our peaks, wildflowers have a much later window for gracing the meadows and lake shores of the Wasatch. Late July through early August is the prime time to head up high for a concentrated cataclysm of Kodachrome. The ephemeral enchantment of high altitude blossoms is condensed into a display that lasts a few short weeks. To help you witness the Wasatch at its most glorious, here are three hikes with wildflower jackpots: s a lt l a k e m a g a z i n e . c o m jul/aug 2014

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Little Cottonwood Canyon Difficulty: Easy

Ten thousand years ago, at the top of Little Cottonwood Canyon, the longest glacier in the Wasatch was born. The glacial ice created Albion Basin, a natural amphitheater and left Cecret Lake, a pretty glacial tarn. The gentle trail to Cecret Lake is an absolute must if wildflowers are on the agenda for a whole family outing. A mere 1.2 miles each way, gaining only 450 feet, the trail crosses a footbridge and wanders through a meadow filled with wildflowers. Pack a picnic, find a rock ledge for lounging, and revel in the rampant display of color where once lay a solid sheet of ice. If you still have energy to burn, continue up to Sugarloaf Peak for brilliant views of the lake, basin and Alta Ski Resort.

Meet the Pro

Arguably the best blooming hike in Utah, arrive early to snag a parking space or use the free shuttle provided by Alta Township on summer weekends. No dogs in the watershed.

Timpooneke Trail

Timpooneke Campground, Alpine Loop, American Fork Canyon Difficulty: Moderate

The Timpooneke Trail leads to the top of Mount Timpanogos, the most bagged 11,000-foot peak in Utah. There is no need to summit if wildflowers are on your mind. Climbing 3,210 feet, the trial switchbacks up the Giant Staircase, five glacial benches, before reaching the upper glacial bowl, a perfect indentation to cup thousands of wildflowers. Indeed, everything that would make a hike perfect is found here in spades. Wildflowers,

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Cecret Lake-Albion Basin reflecting Devil’s Castle Flowers: fireweed, asters

Richard Middleton is an actor, his stage a trail, his audience those with a yen to learn about wildflowers.

From the first Wasatch Wildflower Festival in 2005, Middleton has been in the thick of things. He says it is a phenomenal mental experience to engage with people from all over the world, experts and neophytes, old and young alike. When asked about a favorite hike that gets little attention, he immediately mentions the walk from the plaza deck at Snowbird. “It is underrated because it’s flat but it has great flowers.” The Wasatch wildflowers are a draw for international visitors, but Middleton would like to see more locals make the drive. Connect with Middleton through the Cottonwood Canyons Foundation. 801-466-6411, info@cottonwoodcanyons.org

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Retiring to Salt Lake City in 2004, Middleton wanted a way to connect to people and his new environment. His passion for hiking started as a boy growing up in the Welsh Mountains, his passion for wildflowers with an organized evening walk where he was “absolutely astounded at the amazing variety of flowers in such a short distance.” Due to his enthusiasm, he soon found himself a volunteer naturalist guide for Cottonwood Canyons Foundation. During training at Silverlake, he saw 72 types of flowers in ¾ of a mile. “I love it, absolutely love it,” he exclaims.

Emerald Lake to take six to seven hours roundtrip. The trail is open from mid July and welcomes dogs. Come midweek or Sunday for more solitude. $6 fee to access the National Forest Area.

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Alexander Basin

Mill Creek Canyon Road Difficulty: Extreme

Timpanooke trail Flowers: white columbine

waterfalls, a small glacier, a herd of Rocky Mountain goats, stunning vistas and high alpine meadows all combine to make this an unforgettable day. You may feel a Julie Andrews/ Sound of Music moment coming on when surrounded by the uncountable colorful blossoms. Expect the well marked 6.5-mile trail to

Alexander Basin Trail to the peak of Gobblers Knob is not for the faint of heart. Climbing 3,100 feet in 5.5 miles, this is a strenuous, steep hike. Filled with wildflowers and spectacular views, if you can hack it, this hike is worth the effort. The trail kicks into high gear from the get go, climbing steeply through a thick forest of fir providing welcome shade. Just after a mile, the cirque valley starts to open, chock-a-block with blooms, highlighted by spiky blue penstemon. Throw off your pack, grab a snack and look high and low for micro or macro beauty. Climb out of the valley on a very steep trail if you need to reach to the top. The peaks of the surrounding canyons applaud you for a job well done. Expect the hike to take 4-5 hours, more if you nap in the meadow. Dogs run free on odd numbered days. The well-signed trailhead is 7.5 miles up the canyon. $3 Millcreek Canyon fee.

Utah Flower Festivals

Written by local horticulturists, Wildflowers of the Mountain West is a great resource for hikers who wonder at trailside flora. Full color photos and distribution maps make identification easy. $24.95, King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S.1500 East, SLC, 801-489-9100

Flora of the Wasatch app If you prefer to get your information digitally, this app is sure to please. An easy-to-use identification system at your fingertips, you can search for wildflowers by type, color and shape. Compatible with most devices. $7.99, highcountryapps.com

Cedar Breaks National Monument Ninth Annual Wildflower Festival takes place July 5–20. Located above Cedar City, at an elevation of 10,000 feet, Cedar Breaks is a huge natural amphitheater filled with spires, columns and pinnacles in hues of mauve, rust, cream and cinnamon, a beautiful backdrop for the profusion of wildflowers that blooms on the rim. The festival offers photography and journaling classes from Zion Canyon Field Institute as well as twice daily, guided hikes. nps.gov/cebr The Wasatch Wildflower Festival is held the last weekend in July; this year the dates are July 25–27. In its ninth year, the all-volunteer festival holds hikes at each of the resorts in the Cottonwood Canyons. Friday sees Brighton host in the morning and Solitude in the afternoon. Saturday belongs to Alta and Sunday is Snowbird. Step out on a trail, ride a chair lift or tram, and join a local expert to learn about our high alpine zone in the brief window when it is cloaked in raiment of color. wasatchwildflowerfestival.org

Wildflowers of the Mountain West

Osprey Axis Daypack

Cedar Breaks National Monument Flowers: lupine

More pockets than a mob of kangaroos to hold all the gear you need on wildflower forays. Half zip makes interior contents visible, bungee system cinches shed layers outside. Lifetime guarantee. $69.95, Kirkham’s, 3125 S. State Street, SLC, 800-453-7756, kirkhams.com s a lt l a k e m a g a z i n e . c o m jul/aug 2014

Go Red For Women is the American Heart Association’s national campaign to increase awareness of heart disease—the leading cause of death for women—and to inspire women to take charge of their heart health. Part of the Go Red For Women movement is the Circle of Red, an elite group of women and men who have the influence and resources to significantly impact the community by providing a personal commitment of $1,000 or more to help fund research to find a cure for the number one killer of women. Circle of Red members receive special recognition at Go Red For Women events throughout the year.

Speak Up to Save Lives

Now is the time to shout louder, stand stronger and demand change. It’s time to come together in a movement that is not just FOR women, but BY women. It’s time for women to Go Red. Visit www.utahgoredluncheon.org. For more information, please call 801-702-4423 or email Cherie.Stater@heart.org

thank you to Jewel Kade for their generous gift of Circle of Red charmware, designed exclusively for members. Go Red and Go Red For Women are trademarks of AHA. the Red Dress Design is a trademark of U.s. DHHs.

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CIRCle of Red Local women support the American Heart Association’s campaign to educate women about their number one killer—heart disease.

CIRCLE OF RED MEMBERs, FROM LEFt tO RIGHt: Circle of Red Chair Linda Kofford, LeeAnne Linderman, Dr. Deborah Budge, Cathy Angstman, Margaret McGann, Lori Midgley, Robin Marrouche, Jennifer Danielson, Stephanie Horne, Dr. Lillian Khor

faces

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Lyndsey Fagerlund

A local photographer putting autism in focus.

Fraser Nelson

Raising over a million for Utah’s nonprofits.

When Fraser Nelson launched the Community Foundation of Utah in 2008, it was a risky idea, if not crazy. Starting an organization to make philanthropy accessible to all Utahns was a stretch—especially in the middle of a nation-wide recession. But last March, the foundation’s second annual Love UT Give UT campaign raised over $1 million for over 300 organizations online in just 24 hours. “That’s why we call it Love UT Give UT—people love this state and love the organizations that make Utah such great place to live,” she says. Prior to the Community Foundation, Nelson led Utah’s Disability Law Center for 10 years and served as president of the Utah Nonprofits Association. She’s also an adjunct faculty member at the University of Utah’s School of Business. —Doridé Uvaldo

At first, Lyndsey Fagerlund didn’t know her son Max had autism but says he was always quiet and withdrawn, and then one day she pointed her lens toward him and something magic happened. “I took pictures of him and got him to look at the camera,” she says. Now, like most professional photographers, Fagerlund has shot everything from weddings to fashion and specializes in kids—but unlike other shutterbugs, she prides herself on working with kids who have autism. “My goal now is photographing more kids with autism to get pictures families will really love,” she says. Fagerlund admits difficulties in social interaction can make it harder to photograph kids with autism, but she’s up to the challenge. “It’s definitely a different skill set,” she says. “You have to be really understanding and relaxed.” She aims for authenticity in her photography, preferring to shoot subjects in natural settings instead of a studio. “Photography has been so easy to pick up lately, and a lot of people are just learning how to pose families and becoming photographers,” she says. “I feel that my personality sets me apart. I really love getting to know people and finding out who they are and getting their personalities on camera.” Along with snapping photos, Fagerlund teaches at the Winner School as a reading specialist. She blogs her photographs at lyndseyfagerlund.com. And, of course, she still shoots photos of Max.

—Jaime Winston

Angela H. Brown After making crafts cool again with artsy nonprofit Craft Lake City and running SLUG magazine for over a decade, Angela H. Brown should be named SLC’s alt-culture queen. Of course, that wasn’t her plan. After earning a bachelor’s in photojournalism at Salt Lake Community College, she was ready to leave. “I was tired of living in Salt Lake,” Brown says. Her job with Universal Music and Video Distribution even promised a career in San Francisco upon her graduation. But then bad news slapped her in the face: Her father was dying of cancer. If she left, she could miss his final years. Instead, she accepted a promotion from her other job at SLUG (Salt Lake UnderGround) and took over the magazine. Now, 14 years later, she’s happy she stayed. “Through taking over SLUG, I fell back in love with Salt Lake.” That love is reflected in the mag’s content, focusing on local music, action sports and more. And Craft Lake City’s DIY Festival, which started in 2009, boasts over 200 artisans of all things handmade, from knitting to silk-screened posters. This year’s DIY Festival is Aug. 8–9 at the Gallivan Center. —Jaime Winston

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Crafty about Salt Lake City.

dept arts & entertainment By Glen Warchol

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Dance of the DIYers

Artistic do it yourselfers push the bounds of ballet.

hen it comes to do it yourself, most of us think of repainting the bathroom or, if we’re really creative, decoupaging wine labels on a wastebasket. So it’s disorienting to hear a ballet company and a musical group that dabbles in European cabaret music being casually described as “DIY.” Nevertheless, Municipal Ballet Co. and the musicians of St. Bohème not only performed at Craft Lake City DIY Festival last year, but went on to fashion a creative collaboration. “Our company is a lot like the handmade crafts at the Craft Lake City Festival– things that don’t need to be made by hand anymore but are, by artisans who do something contemporary with the craft,” says Sarah Longoria, founder of Municipal Ballet Co. “I wanted a ballet company to happen—and it happened.” After getting a masters in ballet at the University of Utah earlier this year, Longoria decided to DIY—there’s no better way to describe it—a 12-member group of dancers and choreographers with the goal of making ballet a “public utility” (hence the pun in Municipal Ballet Co.) Rather than preserve classical ballet forms, MBC works to give ballet a contemporary feel. “We hope that if people are exposed to ballet and good music they will love it,” she says. After MBC’s application was accepted by the Craft Lake City Fest (“I was afraid ballet wasn’t cool enough for the diverse crowd at the festival,” she says), Longoria met fellow exhibiter Beaux Ellis Underwood, whose band St. Bohème specializes in European cabaret music, including the songs of Edith Piaf and the impossibly romantic compositions of Yann Tiersen (most famous for the music of the film Amélie). The one thing her performances had lacked, Longoria says, was live music. She

found St. Bohème’s music “very conceptual, like my dances.” Underwood embraces the DIY label: “I consider myself first and foremost an artist, not a businessman. But every artist, at some point, is a business person.” Though St. Bohème and Municipal Dance Co. never performed together at Craft Lake City, they later collaborated in a ballet Son et Lumière last February at the historic Ladies Literary Club Building on South Temple. Longoria found the prairie stylearchitecture building perfect for the ballet, but couldn’t afford to rent it. Again, the DIY spirit kicked in. She offered the Utah Heritage Foundation a 50 percent split of the performance’s take for their restoration fund and a successful two-night run ensued. “Do it yourself isn’t just about homeimprovement shows,” says Craft Lake City founder Angela Brown (profiled in this magazine on p. 54). “It’s about being an entrepreneur. And that describes an artist who is creating art works or collaborating with another group. These are essentially micro businesses.” “Sarah and Beaux are really pioneering,” Brown says. “They’re taking ballet out of the grand hall and making it accessible to the people by saying, ‘Let’s open ballet to a new audience and show them how beautiful it is and prove it isn’t as pretentious as it may have seemed.’”

Got a jones for DIY ballet? Municipal Ballet Co. and St. Bohème will do street performances, excerpted from Son et Lumière, during the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll July 18 and Aug.15. You can also see them at the Craft Lake City DIY Festival Aug. 8-9.

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arts & entertainment

The Big See Three events you can’t miss

Humongous stadium celebrations miss the real joys of the Fourth of July. Get in touch with your small-town patriotism at a community fete at just about any Utah town. Moab’s charming blow-out, for instance, offers a watermelon-eating contest, parade, community swim and fireworks finale. It’s enough to make Frank Capra mistyeyed. Swanny Park, 400 N. 100 West, Moab, 435-259-7814, moabchamber.com

For more happenings around Salt Lake City and the state, visit our events calendar at saltlakemagazine.com

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The Brigham City Museum of Art and History is small and housed modestly beneath the senior center in BC, but the collection and exhibits are always thoughtfully curated and striking. It’s a great example of bringing art to the community. A case in point: the annual International Quilt Invitational that includes award-winning quilts from Germany, England and Canada. For the newest wave of DIYers and “makers,” quilting at this creative level will be a revelation. July 1 Aug. 23. Brigham City Museum of Art and History, 24 N. 300 West, Brigham City, 435-723-6769, brighamcity. utah.gov/ museum

Party Like It's 1827! In the early 1800s, mountain men and Indians assembled on the south end of Bear Lake to “rendezvous,” that is, trade furs and yarns and generally see a human face—what we call a tail-gater. The Bear Lake reenactment includes black powder shooting, knife and tomahawk throwing, canoe races, primitive archery, kids games, a Dutch oven cookoff, pre-1840s shopping and Native American dancers. Aug. 20–24, Laketown, bearlakerendezvous.com

Clockwise from bottom: dave petersen; Jeff Richards; courtesy of Brigham city museum of art and history

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Not Grandma's Quilt

twilight’s new boss Jesse Schaefer takes the reigns for Salt Lake Arts Council’s biggest events. t’s a new era for Salt Lake City’s arts scene. After nearly three decades, Casey Jarman’s reign as Salt Lake Arts Council’s performing arts program manager ended last fall after he says clashes with executive director Karen Krieger led him to resign. The decision was controversial because Jarman updated SLC culturally by organizing the annual Living Traditions Festival that shows off Utah’s diversity through music, food and art and Twilight Concert Series that draws thousands of hipsters, young and old, to the city’s core. In March, Jarman was replaced by Jesse Schaefer, a trusted lieutenant. “Jesse learned everything he knows from me,” Jarman says. “I hired him to carry baggage for bands. After that, he worked his way up.” Schaefer was Living Tradition’s production assistant in 2003 and 2004 and worked as stage manager for Twilight from 2004 to 2006. The next year, he became production manager for Living Traditions, Twilight and the Brown Bag Concert Series. Schaefer got his first exposure as a kid to the events he now runs. “When I was in high school, I remember going to Twilight concerts when they were at Gallivan Center—definitely good memories.” Jarman’s advice to Schaefer is to stand up to naysayers and to not fear change. “I got so much resistance to change. People didn’t want me to move [Twilight] to Pioneer Park,” he says. “You have to be very driven, very confident in your own knowledge of the field.” Schaefer, who played for hip hop group QUUS Sound Research in the early 2000s, wants to get the Arts Council more involved with local music and keep improving Twilight for artists and patrons. “I’m hoping to bring to it a new perspective and fresh set of ideas,” he says.

Check it Out

Twilight Concert Series Pioneer Park, 300 W. 300 South. Tickets: $5

July 10: Ms. Lauryn Hill with Thundercat

Aug. 7: Local Natives with special guests

July 17: TV on the Radio with Twin Shadow

Aug. 14: Beck with Future Islands

July 24: Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires with The Budos Band

Aug. 21: De la Soul with special guests

July 31: Wu Tang Clan with Run the Jewels

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on the table

Your Guide to Utah

The power of pie By mary brown malouf

Confession: Back in 1993, Salt Lake magazine

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ran an article about pizza. Editors ordered pizza delivered from five places, including—hard to admit it—Pizza Hut. We counted the minutes between order and delivery. Then we counted the number of pepperoni slices on our pizza. That’s how we judged pizza then. Domino’s won. No more. Now, ads and windshield flyers should tell you all you need to know about pizza chains. So we’re not even going there. This article rates pizza as it is now. We (I) am dividing the pizzas by style—lifestyle and cooking style. (Sometimes when you want pizza is as relevant as what pizza you want.) Basically, there was, is now and ever shall be only three parts to a pizza: The toppings. The crust. And the fire. And all three have improved drastically since Salt Lake magazine rated pizza for that issue 21 years ago. You wouldn’t even know this is the same pizzaville. Here’s a list of the best pies on the Wasatch Front. And before you start the email onslaught: This is not an inclusive list of pizza. It’s my list. But of course, we want to know what you think. Go to saltlakemagazine.com and flame away.

Toppings

Quality and variety of toppings are what most people notice about a pizza (unless it’s a college style pie, then

quantity is what counts.) Hand-pulled mozzarella (see page 34 and visit saltlakemagazine.com for step by step on how to make your own at home), house made ricotta, artisanal meats, including pepperoni and other cured meats from Creminelli or another artisanal salumi maker, and true San Marzano tomatoes set the standards for the new pizza.

The Dough

No one argues that to make good pizza dough, you have to start with high-gluten flour (12 percent is supposed to be ideal.) But after that, it’s a free for all. Pizza Napoletana is made with a soft dough and takes about one minute to cook in a wood-burning oven. New Yorkers claim that the city’s water is why their pizza is inimitable. Baker Ryan Patrick Moore from at From Scratch says that the dough needs to be extensible, not elastic, and that means a long fermentation–or rising–time.

The Fiery Inferno

A gas oven and some slate can only go so far—it’s a fact that the best pizza is made in a brick oven burning fruitwood at temperatures unachievable in a home oven. The increased use of wood ovens is one of the factors that has made Utah pizza so much better in the last few years. One sign of a proper woodfired pizza: big, charred bubbles. s a lt l a k e m a g a z i n e . c o m jul/aug 2014

on the table Strict Neapolitan Style

The rules for true Pizza Napoletana are set down, virtually in stone, by the Associazione Vera Pizza Napoletana. Google it. Basically, this style is foldable–soft by American standards, so it’s usually eaten with knife and fork. It must be cooked in an incredibly hot wood-burning oven.

Artisanal

We can credit–‑ of course–‑ Californians with breaking all known pizza conventions. Ed LaDou started serving pizzas topped with goat cheese and truffles at Prego. Wolfgang Puck put smoked salmon and caviar on pizza at Spago in the ‘80s era of conspicuous consumption. Alice Waters opened a pizza place next to Chez Panisse; soon, every city had a joint specializing in upscale pizza topped with spinach and duck sausage. (Ladou went on to help open CPK, whence came BBQ chicken pizza. Never a good idea, even in California.)

Pizzeria Limone, a local mini-chain, bases everything on its secret crust recipe, baked in a gas-fired brick oven and finished with some tricky toppings involving lemons and blackberries. But mozzarella is aged, not fresh. Besides the original Cottonwood location, Pizzeria Limone has successfully replicated in Salt Lake City, Sandy and, soon, South Jordan. 1380 Fort Union Blvd., Cottonwood Heights.

Restaurant Style

Lots of restaurants serve pizza; here, I’m only talking about places where the pizza is a definitive part of the menu. Best by a long shot is Sea Salt.

Slackwater Pizza & Pub is more pub than a pizzeria, but the pizza is extraordinarily wild for a pub. Try the California Sunrise—it actually involves Green Goddess dressing. 1895 Washington Blvd, Ogden, 801-399-0637 Lugano has a limited pizza menu, but deserves inclusion here because of its version of pizza bianca, with roasted cauliflower and shiitake mushrooms. 3364 S. 2300 East, SLC, 801-412-9994

From Scratch takes artisanal a step further by milling its own flour onsite. Because of their buy-local philosophy, the wheat from Central Milling is a mix, not 100 percent 00,so the pizza is baked at a lower temperature–450 to 500 degrees–in their wood oven. 62 E. Gallivan Ave., SLC, 801-538-5090 In Salt Lake, only Settebello adheres to these rules, cooking their pies made with imported 00 flour at 900 to 1,000 degrees in an imported Italian oven. 260 S. 200 West, SLC, 801-322-3556

Vinto’s two locations also serve an American artisanal pie baked in a wood burning oven. Like 712, the dough is bit sturdier than Neapolitan pizza and baked at a slightly lower temperature, around 600 degrees. 418 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-539-9999; 900 Main St., Park City, 435-615-9990 Pizzeria 712, the first restaurant in the Heirloom Restaurant Group, still serves the best pizza in Utah, because of the true chef’s attention brought to bear on the humble pie: locally-grown and made ingredients baked in an Italian-made wood burning oven at 712 degrees. Get it? The simple margherita is the apex of Utah pizza. 320 S. State St. #185, Orem, 801-623-6712

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Sea Salt’s pizza are full-on Neapolitan style in spirit–made in a wood burning oven, using San Marzano tomatoes, fresh mozzarella (including di bufala), grana padano…meticulously made and topped judiciously with local produce. 1709 E. 1300 South, SLC, 801-349-1480

East Coast Style

They say the first pizza establishment in the United States was opened in 1905 in New York’s Little Italy. It was cooked in coal-burning brick ovens, and the cheese was put on the dough before the sauce.

College Style

In one study, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported 13 percent of the U.S. population consumes pizza on any given day–with young people representing biggest piece of the pie. Don’t even think about wood, or fresh mozzarella or local ingredients: The key to college-style pizza is sheer bulk—mountains of toppings, including lots of meat and cheese—we presume to counteract the beer.

Midnight Pizza Several places in Utah claim to sell New Yorkstyle pizza, but Maxwell’s comes the closest with their 20-inch, thin pies. 357 S. Main St., SLC, 801328-0304; 1456 Newpark Blvd., Park City, 435-647-0304 Este is a New York hipster pizza; you can tell because their best-selling pie is a veggie with spinach and they also make some pies with vegan cheese. 156 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-363-2366; 2148 S. 900 East, SLC, 801-485-3699

The Pie is Utah’s quintessential college pizza joint. Obviously. And the Pie’s Combo, topped with ham, pepperoni, salami, ground beef and two kinds of sausage, is a best-seller. The original location is a U of U institution, but now there are locations all around Northern Utah–go to thepie.com. 1320 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-582-0195

Sometimes you don’t just want pizza, you have to have pizza. Elsewhere, late-night pizza is a whole genre. The pickings are slimmer in Utah, but there is the Pie Hole, where you can get a midnight slice, and when all else fails, Big Daddy’s even has an ordering app for your smartphone. You don’t even have to think to order this pizza.

Pie Hole

344 S. State St, SLC, 801-359-4653

Big Daddy’s

470 S. 700 East, SLC, 801-746-7499

Roasted Sun, a perennial favorite located conveniently not far from the club strip on State, uses an old-school gas deck oven with big pieces of slate. 2010 S. State St., SLC, 801-483-2120 SLABpizza in Provo–BYU’s college pizza of choice–offers the required collegiate mass in a new way. A slab is one quarter of a 20inch pizza–you order toppings for each slab. 671 E. 800 North, Provo, 801-377-3883

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The Great Salt Lake

is a glory, a natural wonder that nurtures hundreds of bird and mammal species and, yes, brine flies and sea monkeys (only you call them brine shrimp or Artemia franciscana) that make the lake anything but dead. If you’re among a legion of scientists, birdwatchers and naturalists from around the world, that’s how you think of the Great Salt Lake. But if you live here, you seldom notice or visit our immense inland sea and city namesake. What do most Salt Lakers think about the

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Great Salt Lake—when they think about it? That it stinks and it’s full of flies and salty, salty water and dead, and that it’s useless for the works of man. And that isn’t true, well not exactly true. Flies are only there certain times of year and only along the shore. There is a stink, but also only near the shore. It is, of course, salty, way saltier than the ocean (5 to 25 percent salinity, compared to the ocean’s 3.5 percent) and you’ll bob like a beach ball on its surface. But there is so much more out there right under our held

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noses and beyond our cultural blindness—nature lovers, scientists, brine shrimpers, canoe paddlers, kayakers, rowers, sailors and even artists love the lake for its strange bounty of life, vistas and gripping sunsets. You’ll find peace and quiet beyond its shores and a stark landscape like no other on Earth. Then why is it so widely loathed by Utahns who live near its shore? Dr. Bonnie Baxter of the Great Salt Lake Institute and John Luft, the state’s GSL Ecosystem Program Manager, share a

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theory: The lake cruelly mocked the early pioneers. They needed water for crops and cattle, yet the lake’s 1,700-square-miles of water was too saline to slack their thirst. Terry Tempest Williams famously dubbed the lake, “the great wet lie.” Thus, Utah developed a cultural animosity toward the lake. “We live in a user society and the only people interested in the lake are those who are getting something out of it,” Luft says. “If you can’t get something from it, you might as well throw it away.” s a lt l a k e m a g a z i n e . c o m jul/aug 2014

Sailing: Home of the World’s Saltiest Sailors The Great Salt Lake Yacht Club,founded in 1877, is one of America’s oldest sailing clubs. You read that right. Here in landlocked Utah, a century-plus-old sailing community races and cruises on our inland sea. Its members say sailing the Great Salt Lake is a nautical experience that rivals, in terms of quality and beauty, the world’s oceans. “I have sailed all over the world,” says GSL harbor master Dave Shearer. “And I have never seen sunsets like we have here on the Great Salt Lake. It’s a unique body of water to sail on. Our boats float three inches above the normal water line on totally glassy water. It is so serene out there.” Apart from some outrigger canoe paddlers and kayakers, GSL sailors have the lake to themselves because the lake’s high salinity drives off all but the bravest power boaters whose vessels aren’t built to run in the extremely salty water. If you want to play on the lake, wind and muscle power are the best options, which enhances the experience. “There’s no other noise out there and you feel very far from civilization,” Shearer says. Yacht Club commodore (yes, we have commodores in Utah) Tiffany Jackson says that when people find out she sails on the lake the first question is “What about the stink?” Her reply: “What stink?” “It doesn’t stink once you get off shore,” she says. “Everyone I’ve taken out is shocked to learn that.”

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The club, which has about 120 members, sails year-round, including a club tradition of sailing on New Year’s Day (“It’s chilly, but you bundle up,” Jackson says.) The group is mainly centered around its racing season that starts in spring and continues through the fall, but sunset cruises and less competitive activities are also part of the fun. After a day of sailing, Jackson says club members will often meet up and tie boats together to watch the sunset and talk of the day on the waters of Utah’s secret ocean. “It’s something everyone should experience,” Jackson says. “Once you get out on the water, you realize how different it is from what most of our Utah culture expects.”

On any given morning during the months of October through January, boats are seeking a lucrative catch: Artemia salina, or brine shrimp (Sea-Monkeys to comic book readers). And, although sea-monkeys aren’t technically fish—let alone monkeys, and fishing doesn’t describe the vacuuming process that harvests brine shrimp, the sailors who ply the waters in search of the tiny creatures still stubbornly refer to themselves as “fishermen.” “A brine shrimp fisherman tends to be a rugged individualist who doesn’t mind being out in a small boat in sub-freezing temperatures that will chill your bones on the chance of bringing in a good harvest,” says Don Leonard, Utah Artemia Association President. “It’s a short season and sometimes it’s hard to catch enough shrimp in that window. It’s not for the faint of heart.” But it’s worth the risk, Leonard says, because the tiny organisms are the live food that feeds farm-raised fish and shrimp in hatcheries around the globe. It’s a billion-dollar industry and a third of the world’s brine shrimp come as eggs from the Great Salt Lake. The 36-foot aluminum boats go out at first light, awaiting word from airplanes patrolling above. The spotters look for “streaks,” patches of shrimp eggs as wide as a 100 yards. The fisherman below race to the streaks and deploy a large boom. “They make sure the eggs don’t float away, then vacuum them into bags on the boat,” Leonard says. Deadliest Catch, it’s not. The state regulates the shrimp harvest and can shut down the season in as little as three weeks to keep the shrimp population at a sustainable level. “Mother Nature has to get hers first,” Leonard says. The state’s John Luft, who monitors the catch, says brine shrimping has mellowed a great deal since the wild west days of the early 1990s. “There was a time when boats rammed competitors’ boats, he says, “Even threats and guns being drawn.”

Get Out The Great Salt Lake Yacht Club hosts an annual event in June called Sail Fest. Landlubbers are invited out for free sailing, educational tours and other nautical fun. This year’s event will be held June 12–15. On Sept. 19 and Oct. 25, the club invites the public out to the marina for a fall and Halloween social. For more information, visit gslyc.org. The cheekily named charter company Sailing Solution (get it?) offers basic and advanced sailing classes and charter cruises on the lake. For more info, visit sailingsolution.net

Spotting brine shrimp from the air

Photo Steve Jurvetson

GSL harbor master Dave Shearer and dog.

Photo Adam Finkle

Inside the International Sea Monkey Trade

Anarchy in the GSL

A few movies have been made about the GSL, including a snoozer by artist Robert Smithson and the even-artier 1963 cult horror classic Carnival of Souls. But the most iconic scene was in 1998’s SLC Punk, in which Stevo, Heroin Bob and friends try to dispose of a stolen car in the lake—but, despite being riddled with bullets, it won’t sink— enhancing the lake’s mythology.

Outrigger Canoes:

Over the Rainbow

A ukulele’s soft strains float across the briny air as muscular Hawaiians and haoles heft a 14-foot outrigger canoe down to the water. They pile into the six-man vessel and the steersman shouts the command “Paddles up!” It’s a common scene on any of Hawaii’s five islands, where the thousand-year-old cultural sport is as celebrated as basketball and football here on the mainland. But this scene is happening on the Great Salt Lake, far from the lush, dulcet shores of Hawaii. Members of the Hui Paokalani Outrigger Canoe Club

Sea Monkeys

from Outer Space!

Image courtesy Joseph Bremson

The Hui Paoakalani Outrigger Canoe Club was founded seven years ago and paddles its canoes on the Great Salt Lake for fun, exercise and to educate Utahns about Hawaiian culture and tradition—to connect its members, many of whom are native Hawaiians or Pacific Islanders, with their homeland. “I grew up in Hawaii,” says club spokesman Darren Medeiros. “The Great Salt Lake was the closest thing to the ocean I could find here. It’s a way for us to travel 10 miles and it feels like we are in a different world, far away from Utah.” The club has three canoes and operates on a grant that originated with Utah’s Hawaiian Cultural Center. But because it is not the ocean, paddling canoes on the GSL’s mirror surface offers a special benefit: The boats go very, very fast. “The water is so dense that you can really grab it with your paddle,” Medeiros says.

Get Out Apollo 16, in 1972, took brine shrimp eggs all the way to the moon to test the effects of cosmic radiation. We’re still waiting for gigantic mutant sea-monkeys to attack Salt Lake City.

Surf’s Up! If outrigger paddling entrances you, the Annual Duke Paoa Kahanamoku Water Fest (Duke was an Olympic-winning swimmer) is in June. The club hosts weekly paddle sessions every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. through midSeptember. huipaoakalani.blogspot.com.

Far from the River Charles Though associated with Ivy League schools, the competitive rowers have beenin the lake since the 1890s. The Great Salt Lake Rowing Club invites the public out to try out the sport through its “guest row” program. gslr.org. s a lt l a k e m a g a z i n e . c o m jul/aug 2014

A Not-So-Great Salt Lake

Future Then

Now

Saltair: Wonder of the World

It comes as a shock to many Utahns, but Saltair, built on 2,000 pilings in 1893, was something extraordinary. It had its own railroad to haul in crowds to bob, corklike, in the water. Saltair was the largest amusement park west of Coney Island. Sadly, the wooden structure burned to the ground in 1925. A second version hosted Big Band greats, including Glenn Miller. It succumbed to a 1970 fire. Now, few locals care to frolic lakeside, explaining the unsuccessful, not to mention, underwhelming, 1981 iteration of Saltair as a concert venue.

A Salt Lake Super Hero

to lift off the lake, but retain enough fat to fuel a 3,000-mile non-stop flight to Mexico. The ungainly grebe isn’t exactly ripped, and it still requires a goofy run atop of the water with wings slapping hilariously before it stumbles aloft. All this happens in the dark of night, of course, because in daylight the grebe would be a sitting duck for raptors. “They’re kind of pathetic birds. They aren’t maneuverable or good fliers,” says John Luft, GSL Ecosystem Program Manager. Though no one has seen their exodus, radar detects “pulses” as tens of thousands of grebes lumber upward and southward in an annual stumble-bum story of survival.

Get Out Photo Charles Uibel

Eared grebes and even sexier (if that’s possible) species like bison, coyotes, songbirds and raptors await at Antelope Island State Park. stateparks.utah.gov

Photo Bill Bouton

It’s a homely bird that swims underwater better than it can walk or fly. Yet the eared grebe has awesome superpowers. The lake supports 7.5 million migratory and native birds, including spectacular Peregrine falcons, majestic bald eagles, Utah’s state bird the California gull and a dozen species of ducks. But none has a more beautifully bizarre relationship to the lake than the eared grebe. In late spring, 2.5 million ember-eyed Podiceps nigricollis fly in from Canada on the first leg of a migration south. The lake provides half the world’s grebe population with a boot-camp experience—in reverse. Each grebe gobbles 30,000 brine shrimp a day—doubling its weight while letting its muscle tone go. The banqueting grebes become flightless birds— too fat and dissipated to lift off the water. But by late fall, as the brine shrimp population declines, an amazing physiological transformation occurs. The grebes pump up until the bird has the muscle

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Maybe it's because the Great Salt Lake is so immense. Or because we insist on seeing it as already “dead.” Utahns don’t seem to be able to conceive of this ecosystem as vital, let alone endangered. Yet the lake is threatened by residential and industrial development, imbalances in salinity and by simply having its water supply sucked away by the lawns of urban sprawl. Not surprisingly, the biggest danger to the lake is our cluelessness. A group of state biologists listed the dumbest things people ask them: Q: How can you stand that stink? A: That’s the aroma of a complex ecosystem. Q. Everything's dead out there. A: Except several billion birds, mammals and invertebrates. Q: What good is the Great Salt Lake? A: $1.3 billion in Utah's GDP. In short, Utahns insist on loathing the lake that defines their state. And that makes the DNR scientists who study it, instead of sexy mule deer or elk, a Rodney Dangerfield group. “There's not a lot of glory in studying the Great Salt Lake,” says John Neill, an avian biologist in the Great Salt Lake Ecosystem Program. But Lynn de Freitas and Friends of the Great Salt Lake are devoted to getting Utahns to Lynn De embrace their lake Freitas and work to protect its bounty and beauty. “It's an inextricably linked picture of lifecycles—a whole world in a complex, crazy, misunderstood ecosystem,” says de Freitas. Perhaps it’s a good thing that the future of the lake will soon be the hands of a new generation tutored by programs offered by the DNR, the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster and, of course, the Friends. “The kids probably have more understanding and appreciation for the lake than their parents,” says John Luft, GSL Ecosystem Program manager. “They get it.”

Humans have been evaporating salt water for seasoning since the first time anyone said, “this needs salt,” so it’s no surprise that our hyper-salty sea’s north and southwestern shores are home to tens of thousands of acres of solar evaporation ponds to extract salt and other minerals used for industry and agriculture. One of the biggest operations on the lake is Great Salt Lake Minerals. Though road salt is one of its products, its biggest seller is sulphate of potash (SOP), a mineral used in fertilizer. SOP is extremely rare and the GSL is the world’s largest source—the only one in North America. You can thank the nuclear arms race for its discovery. “In the 1950s when the U.S was building up its atomic arsenal and lithium was a key part of making the bombs,” says GSL Minerals Spokesman Dave Hyams, “they thought they would find lithium in the GSL. They did, but not in large quantity. But they did find SOP.” The demand for SOP fertilizer skyrocketed as U.S. suburbs gobbled farms during the next 30 years, requiring increased farm productivity. GSL Minerals has 47,000 acres of evaporation ponds dedicated to SOP. Morton Salt Company’s 10 solar ponds on the south shore focus on the company’s namesake product. The Grantsville facility’s salt is mainly used for water softening, pool treatment and food-grade salt. State Ecosystem Manager John Luft’s challenge is to balance the needs of the mineral extractors with those of the brine shrimpers with what is best for the lake’s challenged ecosystem.

Photo Courtesy Snowbird

Pass the Salt

A bird of a different color

The day a pelican downed a falcon

In May 1982, an F-16 “Fighting Falcon” flying a training mission out of Hill Air Force Base collided with what is generally believed to have been an American white pelican. According to the Air Force accident report: “A birdstrike caused the radome to shred and the F-16 to lose control. Pilot ejected safely.” The $35-million jet fighter and the pelican didn’t fare as well—both were total losses.

Special Effect

Salt Lake weather geeks often blame a particularly nasty winter storm on “lake effect.” It’s almost legend that the Great Salt Lake puts hoodoo on passing storm fronts, whipping them into blinding blizzards and loading the clouds with angel-kissed powder snow. The reality is: not quite. National Weather Service Lead Forecaster Mike Seaman says that so-called lake effect is real—but it’s a fickle contributor to snowfall. It’s a spring or fall phenom, when the temperature of the lake is warmer than the surrounding land. If a cold front rolls into the valley, it hits the warm rising lake air that can increase a snowfall, says Seaman. “All the ingredients—wind, temperatures, moisture—have to be just right to create a lake effect. Occasionally we’ll get a really heavy snow in the valley that’s directly related to the lake, and because the valley is heavily populated, the effect gets more attention.”

Utah’s most famous South American immigrant was Pink Floyd, a Chilean flamingo that escaped Tracy Aviary in 1987 and provided a splash of warm color in the monochromatic lakescape. With his strainer beak and long legs, Floyd was better-adapted than many native birds to thrive. In the mid-2000s, Floyd went MIA. But in the winter of 2014, a birder reported a yet unconfirmed pink flash. Is he back?

The Strange Case of Jean Baptiste

In 1862, a gravedigger named Jean Baptiste was caught hoarding the clothes of deceased women in his Avenues home. The crime, with its Norman Bates overtones and sheer ghoulishness, shocked the city and lurid accounts claimed he’d pillaged up to 300 graves. But even more strange was the punishment devised for Baptiste. Authorities sentenced him to exile on Fremont Island in the Great Salt Lake and some accounts say they burned the words “Branded for robbing the Dead” on his forehead. Records show he was deposited on the lonely island in the middle of the salty sea and disappeared from history. No bones were ever found on Fremont. s a lt l a k e m a g a z i n e . c o m jul/aug 2014

Cynthia McPhee Discipline: CorePower Yoga

“I was a single, stay at home mother of two until I found yoga and it changed my life.” Cynthia McPhee doesn’t understate her passion. After six months of practicing yoga, she decided to become an instructor and she recently finished teacher training at CorePower. Studio: CorePower Yoga

CorePower is set to energizing music and may involve weights. Or bikes. Beginning CorePower classes are held in a moderately heated studio, the most strenuous classes are held in a 90–95-degree space with 30–35 percent humidity. And it can get tougher from there. Open seven days a week, starting at 6 a.m. Choose from two locations in Salt Lake City: 3142 Highland Dr., 801-290-3308 or 1400 Foothill Dr #228, 801-883-9572. corepoweryoga.com

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Uintah Collection capris, Uintah Standard, $64; Athleta hoodie, Athleta at City Creek, $79.

The

Evolution Beauty of

By Mary Brown Malouf

Photography by Adam Finkle

rue beauty has less to do with artifice and youth and more to do with reality and health. And consciousness of that fact seems to be dawning—Salt Lake City has more fitness studios and yoga centers and gyms than you can count. Clothes are following suit. “Workout wear has stepped up and out of the gyms and studios and onto the street,” says Heather Carlos, owner of fitness fashion line Uintah and its local boutique of the same name. “Technology has improved fabric performance—they stretch, fit and wick better—and designers have improved the styling, so fun and function combine in a new great-looking and feeling-good way.” That’s right. No more velour sweatsuits...Beauty has evolved.

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Athleta top, Athleta at City Creek, $69; Athleta capris, Athleta at City Creek, $64; Yoga bag, Uintah Standard, $32; Brooks running shoes, Salt Lake Running Company, $32.

Tarynn Richards Discipline: Classical Pilates

In 1997, while Tarynn Richards was living in Russia, her sister and mother at home in Utah started taking Pilates classes. “I tried it when I moved back and fell in love with it,” she says. “When Streamline opened 14 years ago, I worked the front desk.” She went to college, got married and had a child before she got certified to teach Pilates—now she teaches three days a week. “My body misses it when I don’t do it.” Studio: Streamline Pilates

The system of exercises developed by Joseph Pilates has morphed into hundreds of variations, many of them offered at Steve and Eva Kauffman’s Streamline, which also trains Pilates teachers. Steve is a licensed massage therapist. Classes held seven days a week. 1948 S. 1100 East, SLC, 801-474-1156. streamlinepilates.com

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Carrie Goodwin Discipline: The Bar Method

Carrie Goodwin fell in love with The Bar Method in San Francisco eight years ago and dropped in for classes whenever she was in the city. Now, Bar Method studios are across the country though Goodwin’s franchise, which opened in 2011, is the only one in Utah. “Most students experience significant changes in their body and in their life within the first 30 days of consistent classes,” she says.

Athleta striped tank, Athleta City Creek, $42; Athleta striped seamless bra, Athleta City Creek, $48; Nesh Ballerina legging, Chalk Garden Co-Op, $136.

Studio: The Bar Method

The Bar Method is ballet meets isometric movement meets interval training. Trainees do 9–10 exercises, then stretch. All exercises are safe for joints and target muscles that are hard to strengthen but essential for changing the shape of your body. The first class is complimentary, then you can buy a membership or a punchcard. Classes are offered 7 days a week. 1057 E. 2100 South, 801-485-4227, barmethod.com

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Kori Laurel Discipline: Crossfit

Kori Laurel was 35 pounds overweight and depressed two years ago. Then she ran a relay and discovered she loved exercise. Now she’s committed to fitness and is using her University of Utah degree in mass communication in her job as marketing director for Brickwall Crossfit. Not only that, but she’s taking donations to support her pageant expenses for Miss Utah USA. Studio: Brickwall Crossfit Albion orange tank, Albion City Creek, $42; Uintah Collection short, Uintah Standard, $44; Nike shoes, Salt Lake Running Company, $110.

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Greg Schell’s gym emphasizes functional fitness so the curriculum starts with foundation training for novices before moving to CrossFit focusing on strength and mobility. Classes are offered seven days a week from 5 a.m. through the evening and include lunch classes, daycare and ladies-only options. 26 E. 600 South, SLC, 801-502-1798, slccrossfit.com

Art Direction: Scott Cullins Wardrobe Styling: Heather Carlos, Penny Goodwin Makeup: Melanie Baumgardner Shot on Location: Bikram Yoga Studio, Salt Lake City

Becky Airhart Discipline: Bikram Yoga

Becky Airhart hated yoga at first. Her husband Greg had started practicing bikram yoga to relieve arthritis symptoms and wanted to buy the studio from founder Joy Jones, so Becky made up her mind to learn to like it. Now she is a certified teacher and they own Bikram Yoga in Sugar House, which moved into a large new space a year ago.

Albion red tank, Albion City Creek, $42; Porto zip vest, Chalk Garden Co-Op, $282. Athleta legging, Athleta City Creek, $79.

Studio: Bikram Yoga in Sugar House

Classes are offered seven days a week, 365 days a year. A special introductory deal offers 10 consecutive days of lessons for $20. After that, you can buy a membership or a punch pass. Bikram Yoga Salt Lake, 1924 S. 1100 East, SLC, 801-488-4681. bikramyogaslc.com

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Of The

Beehive 2014

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Fashion Survival Guide

We have slightly different standards for fashion in Utah than they do on the coasts–our style is influenced by our landscape, so comfort and versatility equate with trendiness.

Keep up with fashion and design news

Moisturize!

Without a big mall scene, it’s harder to keep up with what’s new. You can’t cruise Sugar House and 9th and 9th every weekend. Here’s a sit-at-home shortcut: Look for design news on the City Home Collective website. Yes, the Collective sells cool houses, but it also keeps up with what’s new in neighborhoods all over town, and its reporters are often first to spot cool new businesses like Uintah Collection and UnHinged. 645 S. Temple, SLC, 801-718-5555, cityhomecollective.com

Dry skin is the bane of beauty in Utah—the air is so dry, we all end up looking like beef jerky before you know it. Skincare here calls for more drastic measures than three-times-a-day moisturizing. Try the Hydrafacial at the Waldorf-Astoria Spa, where they start with your feet (yes, it’s a facial), then cleanse, exfoliate and layer on salves and moisturizers with Vortex-Fusing antioxidants and hyaluronic

Shoes may be the most important part of your Utah wardrobe. Utahns need special footgear for hiking, church, hot weather, heavy snow and dancing on lawns and in clubs. Here are the best places to get your feet dressed. Fashion shoes for men: Zuriick, 875 E. 900 South, SLC, 801-400-2557 For women: Chalk Garden Co-Op, 74 S.

A) Nike AirMax shoes, Fice, $150. B) Black SCVE baseball cap, Fice, $38. C) 10XDEEP baseball shirt. D) 10XDEEP Siler pant $114. E) Zip flowered dress $68; F) To+ether Camper shoes, Children’s Hour, $180. G) Aqua Frye bag, Children’s Hour, $498. H) Babette pleated skirt $219, and crinkle top, Children’s Hour, $267. I) Brixton hat, Fresh/The Stockist, $58. J) Richer-poorer sox, Fresh/ The Stockist, $12. K) Shoes, beard comb, Zuriick. L) Wide brimmed grace straw hat, $42.95. M) Lotta hunting eyelet cap, Hip & Humble, $34.95. N) Red and white straw hat, Hip & Humble, $36.95. O) Big striped bag $84.95. P) Green leaf scarf for all seasons, Hip & Humble $19.95.

Main Street, SLC, 801-364-4032 Dress shoes for men: Hugo Boss, 50 S. Main St., City Creek, SLC, 801-359-0929 For women: Mary Jane’s, 613 Main Street, Park City, 435-645-7463 Hiking and running shoes for men and women: Salt Lake Running Co., 2454 S. 700 East, SLC, 801-484-9144 Spikes and high heels (for men?) and women: the newest Nordstrom Rack, 380 N. Station Parkway, Farmington, 801-447-6077 Sandals for men and women: DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse, 1132 E. Fort Union Blvd., 801-562-4492 Fashion sneakers for guys of a certain age: Fice, 160 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-364-4722

Get the right footwear

Survival Kit

acids via soothing strokes until your skin feels like a baby’s. 2100 Frostwood Dr., Park City, 435-647-5555

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The amazing range of outdoors recreation opportunities is the main reason people fall in love with Utah. But to enjoy the sports, you have to stay fit. And that, of course, takes special clothes. New miracle fabrics, any-age body consciousness and talented local designers make working out in Utah an exercise in fashion. See our workout wear feature on p. 70.

Adam Finkle

Stay fit and look good doing it

Salt Lake’s own O.C. Tanner has always made it their business to bring fine designer jewelry to Utah, so you can put your money where your style is.

Handmade is haute here

Maybe it’s the pioneer heritage, but handmade anything is tres Utah. So fashion is found in unexpected places—SLUG magazine editor Angela Brown’s annual Craft Lake City DIY Festival, for instance. Or the Arts Market at the Downtown Farmers Market. Or at Unhinged, a funky boutique with locations in Sugar House, 1121 E. 2100 South, SLC, 801-467-6588, and Provo, 16 W. Center St., Provo, 385-312-1268

Recycle

Utah fashionistas wear it well, again and again, mixing vintage with new. Besides our beloved all-purpose thrift stores like Deseret Industries and Salvation Army, national chains like Uptown Cheapskate and snooty vintage boutiques like Decades, we have a great selection of curated resell shops like Pib’s Exchange and Second Hand Chic. The queen of the business remains Namedroppers. You don’t have to comb through the racks here to find a hidden gem—they’re all gems. Namedroppers: 3355 Highland Dr., SLC, 801-486-1128

Learn to knit

Hand-knitted hats, gloves, scarves and sweaters are the rage—cotton for mountain summers, wool for snowy winters. But forget about Grandma’s ball of yarn and get acquainted with the amazing designer and artisanal skeins at Blazing Needles: shepherd’s wool, silk yarn, lace, Mongolian cashmere, for example. Note: free beginner’s classes on Saturdays. 1365 S. 1100 East, SLC, 801-487-5648

Make friends

At heart, Utah is a small town. Everybody knows everybody and the best way to

Penny Goodwin & Heather Carlos

Besides producing fashion articles for this magazine, Goodwin and Carlos have long histories in the fashion business. Goodwin does it all—she’s a veteran of both the television and fashion worlds, been a production and style consultant, a creative director, producer, model, wardrobe stylist, set dresser, casting agent, and makeup artist. On the retail side, she also works with Chalk Garden. Carlos, a Utah native, worked as a New York fashion rep for years before striking out with a partner to form Uintah Collection, a line of workout wear sold nationally. She recently opened a boutique showcasing the line, Uintah Standard (680 E. 600 South, SLC, 801-554-1379). Together, they have definite ideas about What to Wear–see below. “These are investment pieces, clothes that you’ll have the next five years and they won’t go out of style,” Goodwin says. “But here you wear them a little bit differently,” adds Carlos, who is wearing leopard print tennis shoes.

Adam Finkle

Invest in bling

Left: Heather Carlos and (far right) Penny Goodwin working it at a recent photo shoot.

wardrobe essentials for living fashionably–and how to wear them in Utah, according to our stylists

1. Little black dress The difference is you can add a blue jean jacket and sneakers in Utah. Or cowboy boots for that matter. And if you want to tie a cardigan around your waist, fine. 2. Good pair of dark-blue denim jeans The key is the deepness of the dye—that’s what separates these from your everyday jeans. So you wash them inside out in cold water. And they must have some stretch, so the fit sticks.

hound and more like a sophisticate, and nothing does that like a classic trench.

With the right top, you can wear them to the opera. 3. Crisp white button-down This shirt can totally go to the office, but you can leave it open over a lace cami, or button it all the way up and wear a tie. For the best results, even with jeans, have it cleaned professionally, with a little bit of starch. 4. Trench coat Yes, you have a puffy coat. But when you’re going “out” it’s nice to make an effort to look less like a powder

shop is with someone you know. Meet some of our best friends: Ashley RothwellCampagna, founder-owner of Apt. 202, not only picks out the best clothes for her store, but can choose the best clothes for you. When she asks, “Can I help you?” let her. (955 E. 900 South, SLC, 801-355-0228.) Diane Etherington’s Children’s Hour now includes a beautifully curated collection of clothes for Mom. (898 S. 900 East, SLC, 801-359-4150.) B.J. Stringham is scion of the Utah Woolen Mills family that’s been in the

5. Blazer It doesn’t have to be new, it doesn’t even have to be a women’s blazer, but a black or navy blazer always makes you look like a pro. When your job interview is over, switch out your Mopumps for neon tennies. *And the one item you never leave home without: Chapstick

fine menswear business since the 1920s. He knows it all. (59 W. South Temple, SLC, 801-364-1851)

Take a chance.

Forget name brands—try a nameless brand for once. Tempest Couture specializes in independent designers like Jan Hilmer, Steam Trunk, Buddhaful and Kucoon, plus locals like Adrian Prazen, Le Nouveau Noir and Collarbone. 1305 S. 900 East, SLC, 801-486-1188 s a lt l a k e m a g a z i n e . c o m jul/aug 2014

A&E and Culture Survival Guide

Utah has a fabulous cultural scene and the best outdoor concert venues on Planet Earth. But newcomers—and even lifers— need a field guide to the world beyond vanilla and MoTabs.

Surrender to the Utah Opera/Symphony.

Rock Art

When it comes to old-school art, no one beats the “Old Ones’” astonishing petroglyphs and pictographs. The Anasazi, obviously, were trying to communicate something important through the timeless images on Southern Utah’s cliff walls. We just have to figure out what. utahpetroglyphs.org

We grew up thinking opera is boring and even uncool. Then we saw Turandot. The costumes in Game of Thrones pale before the outfits onstage at the Capitol Theater. (And the music is much better.) But promise us one thing, you’ll dress up. For one night, be unUtahn and put on the dog, (monkey suit, tiara, frock coat, etc.) to add to the pageantry of a night at the opera.

insider tips to drilling down into Salt Lake’s music, dance, concert and cultural scene.

1) Get on the State Room mailing list. Get the jump on the crowd for great shows coming to town. 2) Go out for music. Do a Red

Butte concert for exhilarating weather, top

national acts, an ecstatic crowd and a dose of alpen glow. 3) Heat to beat Retreat from the summer swelter to free shows at Snowbird and Canyons resorts.

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5) Keep SLC weird. Check out an SB Dance show and go to the after party.

Eugenie Hero-Jaffe

Eugenie HeroJaffe is an on-air personality at KRCL

4) Get jazzed Discover traditional and contemporary jazz with the Jazz SLC series at the Capitol Theater.

When Eugenie Hero-Jaffe first arrived in Salt Lake City in 1989, a local advised her that to survive culturally she should: 1. Check out national artists at the Zephyr Club. 2. Catch the blues at the Dead Goat. 3. Tune into KRCL. Jaffe, who would go on to become a behindthe-scenes icon of the Utah arts scene, was reared in New Orleans and studied the arts and acting in New York before working as a Broadway press agent. She “followed a boy” to Utah, where she has worked as a publicist for Ririe Woodbury Dance, the 2002 Cultural Olympiad and Utah Arts Festival. She now presents the Midday Show on KRCL. “The scene has grown a lot since 1998, and the Zephyr and the Goat are long gone,” she says of her friend’s advice. “The original artists are still here and now there are all these new people who are challenging what we think about art.” Salt Lake is “settling into itself” culturally, Hero-Jaffe says. “There are some great things happening. When I see the bike brigade at Twilight on a hot summer night, I think Salt Lake is rad—Salt Lake is amazing.”

Get SLUG’ed.

If you want to know what is happening art- and music-wise in SLC’s cultural underbelly, take a SLUG. That SLUG (Salt Lake UnderGround) dubs its letters-to-the-editor column “Dear Dickheads” says it all. Free at your favorite club.

End-of-hibernation fest

Forget the solstice, the real sign of summer’s arrival is the Utah Arts Fest. And it’s more obvious with 200 artists, and nearly as many jugglers, stilt walkers, entertainers, bands and dancers—not to mention 80,000 bug-eyed attendees. 200 E. 400 South, SLC

Tune in and turn on.

What soul abides in Utah is nourished by KRCL, 90.9, where Bad Brad, Ebay and, of course, Eugenie Hero-Jaffe hold the fort of authenticity. In between, volunteers serve up reggae, bluegrass and leftist politics. 90.9 MHz

Go West.

The city’s newest gallery Modern West Fine Art celebrates the scenery and lore that is the only reason many of us are willing to put up with the other indignities of living in Zion. 177 E. 200 South, SLC, modernwestfineart.com

Bend over to Wendover.

When you need a blackjack fix, a roulette rush, an over-produced country band or just a dose of creepy sleep-deprived humans, Babylon awaits on the Nevada state line. Due west on I-80.

Volunteer at Sundance.

Sundance Film Festival is so hip that many attendees like to pretend that Park City isn’t in Utah (and it’s kind of true). For a week, LA and NYC decamps to the frozen wastes of Summit County, jamming Parley’s Canyon with limos. But the real stars are the volunteers, who get to see movies for free, pal around with Bob and hope to direct Parker Posey’s driver to Temple Har Shalom. sundance.org

Be the artist.

Craft Lake City & DIY Festival is a free art

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A) Even Groucho dressed up for A Night at the Opera: tux, tie and cummerbund, Tuxedo Junction, SLC, tuxedojunctionslc.com, $70. And show grandma’s mink a good time! Vintage furs available seasonally at Name Droppers, SLC. B) Support the art of the West. Crow Indian Scout-Apsalooka Brave acrylic on canvas, by Kevin Red Star, Modern West Fine Art, SLC, $2,500. C) Volunteer at Sundance and meet the stars. You’ll score an ID badge and more, sundance.org. D) Red Butte concert cocktails? You’ll need a GSI Vortex Blender, REI, $114; and E) a Wine Chilling Stick, Hip & Humble, SLC, $35. F) For soulful survival, a solar/crank powered radio to mainline KRCL 90.9 after the zombie apocolypse. Emergency Essentials, SLC, $60. Share your tunes with the undead with a G) Braven Brav-1 speaker, $150. H) Build a killer robot for Craft Lake City DIY Fest. Dremel tool, The Tool Center, SLC, $100. I) Hellbent for Wendover? Amp Energy drink will fight off white-line fever. 7-Eleven, $3. J) No roadhouse thrills in Utah? Ha! Head for the Garage, SLC. K) You’re a culture greenhorn until you’ve been to the iconic Spiral Jetty and Sun Tunnels. Better take a map, compass, and a GPS from the DNR Map Store, SLC, mapstore.utah.gov.

Attitude tune up at the Garage

A true roadhouse, thanks in no small part to its junkyard and refinery mileu, offers one of the state’s best live-music venues and a first-class bar and kitchen. A series of roots-rock acts from Chicago’s Bloodshot Records visits regularly, including Lydia Loveless, Wayne “The Train” Hancock and Whitey Morgan & the 78s. 1199 Beck St., SLC; garageonbeck.com

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fair celebrating the “makers” among us. Innovation and handmade are the bywords of this marketplace of cool stuff, including electronic/mechanical gizmos and music and performance. Aug. 8- 9, Gallivan Center, SLC, craftlakecity.com

Color outside your lines.

For a weekend every spring, Utah forgets its vanilla, sobersided Mormon heritage. The annual Holi Festivals of Color at the Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork turns

20,000 Utahns, including most of the BYU student body, into rainbow people, quite literally. No booze or drugs, just love and unity. festivalofcolorsusa.com

Walkable art

Playwrite Eric Samuelson and Plan-B Producing Director Jerry Rapier

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To reach the highest state of cultural consciousness in Utah, you have to see the solstice through Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels and traipse the curls of black basalt at Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, diaart.org and clui.org.

Make a Plan-B.

Get lit for Christmas.

Meet the Expats.

Growing from a casual one-night performance, this holiday concert by the Provo cooperative Lower Lights has become a concert series at Salt Lake’s iconic Masonic Temple for fans of rootsy holiday tunes. It’s also a much-need antidote to Kurt Bestor. thelowerlights.com

Plan-B Theatre Company’s value in alternative live drama was evident this year when it dedicated a season to Provo playwright Eric Samuelsen, a fearless local treasure who explores Mormon culture, gays and big ideas. Justin Townes Earle, the cantankerous singer/songwriter son of Steve Earle, and Willie Nelson Family Band harmonica player Mickey Raphael spend considerable time in SLC with their Utah-native ladies. You just might hear them jamming on KRCL or at the Green Pig, 31 E. 400 South, SLC. s a lt l a k e m a g a z i n e . c o m jul/aug 2014

Outdoor Survival Guide If you crave something more spectacular, drop into the Crater. A natural spring feeds this natural wonder hidden in a 55-foot hill at the Homestead Resort. The water reaches temps in the 60s—perfect for a therapeutic dip or to learn scuba diving. Factoid: Scenes in the 2010 movie 127 Hours were filmed in the Crater. 700 Homestead Dr., Midway, 435-654-1102, homesteadresort.com

Our idea of the perfect swimming hole includes a short hike, cool water and the obligatory rock to jump off of—the Mountain Dew fantasy. Pine Creek has all three. Located in Zion National Park, you hike along the gurgling creek to this stunning pool of earthly delight (See Charlie’s recommendations, right). zionnational-park.com

Hang 10.

You don’t have to travel to Cali or Hawaii for the thrill of riding a wave. Ogden-based Flowrider offers an indoor wave pool, where high-volume pumps generate a continuous sheet of flowing water. It’s only $20 for an hour-long session, which includes use of a surfboard. Flowrideutah.com

Three major trail areas and plenty of camping makes Vernal, a great MTB alternative to being mobbed in Moab. latitudecycles.com

Test pad

Into thin air

There’s a pannier full of reasons Park City became the gold standard of the International Mountain Biking Association, including a cohesive interconnected network of trails. But it doesn’t hurt to have Canyons C

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Why spend half a day on the approach? With the Snowbird Tram Ride, you get up to altitude in minutes. Then you can jump right into a lung-scorching high-alpine terrain hike. snowbird.com

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Where the wild things are

Take a digital photography safari to Antelope Island (buffalo, coyotes, badgers, bobcats, porcupines, chukars, northern harriers, bighorn sheep and, of course, antelope) or Bear River Bird Refuge (tundra swans, peregrine falcons, snow geese, snowy plovers, American white pelican and seemingly half the ducks on the planet). Or just leave the camera at home and actually look and remember the experience. fws.gov, stateparks.utah.gov

Get your gear on.

Mountain Bike Park, which basically functions as a “Do not attempt this at home!” test track. With hand-built ladder-andbridge wood features and lift service, it can create an adrenaline junkie in a day. Find the bike park trail map at canyonsresort.com.

A) Calloway Solaire golf clubs, engineered specifically for women, $700, Sheels, Sandy. B) Mucus Wakesurf Board, for beginner to intermediate riders, $650, Sheels. C) Yakima Rocketbox Pro12, to get your gear where you’re going, $380, Kirkhams, SLC. D) Halo 28 Avalanche airbag, uses a unique fan inflator (jetforce) instead of compressed air, $1,100, Black Diamond. E) Oakley Vault eyeglass case, keeps your specs safe when you crash and burn, $25, Sheels. F) Sawyer mini water filtration system, attaches inline to your water bladder, $25, Kirkhams. G) Citrus Zinger, add a lemon or orange to your water, $16, Sheels. H) Cotopaxi Inca 26L backpack, versatile hydration/laptop sleeve, $109, cotopaxi. com. I) Saloman TechAmphibian shoe, comfortable, in and out of the water, $95, REI. J) REI camper first aid kit, clear foldout compartments that help you find things fast, $80, REI. K) Reef leather fanning flipflop, complete with bottle opener in the sole, $58, REI. L) Innova disc golf discs, great alternative to the sport of wimps (traditional golf), $15-20, REI. M) Coleman 40-hour citronella candle, keeps all of those pesky bugs away, $11, REI.

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Swimmin’ Hole

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Quick tip to newcomers: Getting outdoors is the key to surviving in Utah. From the powder snow to the fabulous red-rock formations and national parks—for most of us, it’s the main reason to be here.

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Yo ho ho, dude!

Keep Utah crazy wild.

From oil drilling to housing developments, Utah’s wildlands are always at risk from some short-sighted greed scam or another. Do your bit to save some wild for the next generation of risk takers. Here’s a couple places to start: Utah Wildlife in Need fights to help Utah’s native wildlife and at-risk species. If you’ve never seen a California condor, river otter or black-footed ferret, there’s an all-too-real possiblity you never will. uwin.org Friends of Great Salt Lake is working to preserve and protect the much-put-upon Great Salt Lake ecosystem through education, research and speaking up for our misunderstood namesake. (Read more, page 64) fogsl.org

Release your inner troglodyte.

Timpanogos Cave National Monument is an opportunity to get in touch with your inner Neanderthal or at least Barney and Fred. The cave, with its wide rooms and flood-lit coves, is not claustrophobic, but it stays cool year-around, so bring a jacket or sweater (unless you can regrow your primate pelt). The interior decoration, all done by water, is beautiful, if a bit gaudy with gravity-defying helictites, delicate mineral draperies and fragile anthodite crystals. Open May–September. nps.gov/tica

Get a hot foot.

In Arches National Park awaits the hike of a lifetime. Fiery Furnace is a mindblowing labyrinth of narrow passages

A climber, biker, skier and self-descibed hippie, Charlie Sturgis began his outdoor industry career 37 years ago, working for Wasatch Touring in Salt Lake City. In 1986, he joined White Pine Touring in Park City, eventually becoming an owner and growing the shop from a seasonal endeavor to a yearround mountain bike/nordic ski shop. Mountain biking had just come into its own and trails were limited to a few handcut routes on private land. Seeing the need for more trails, Charlie helped found Mountain Trails Foundation in 1992. After many years as a volunteer activist for the nonprofit, he sold White Pine Touring and in 2010 became executive director of Mountain Trails Foundation. With Charlie’s leadership, Mountain Trails has been successful a its mission to develop and promote local trails. Park City boasts more than 350 miles of world-class trails and, last year, was designated an IMDB Gold Ride Center. The recognition, Charlie says, goes to “a community that decided to work together to build a great human-powered amenity.”

Ways to dig into Utah’s spectacular outdoors, stay healthy and pass it on to another generation.

1) Don’t go anywhere without a down jacket. Charlie owns five puffy coats and makes sure one is packed along in any season. You never know when Utah weather will turn foul. 2) Fitness follows fun. Charlie believes that if fun is your goal, the fitness will follow. While not knocking the indoor fitness scene, he feels getting outdoors is the path to a happy and healthy life.

3) Swim in a desert water hole. There’s something magical about a swimming hole in the middle of the desert— especially for soaking stiff calfs after a hot hike. Two of Charlie’s favorites: Calf Creek in the Escalante area and Mill Creek Canyon in Moab. 4) Reach for the peaks. There’s no better way to

meandering among towering sandstone walls. You can do it on your own with a permit, but we’d recommend a ranger or private guide who will lead you to the coolest parts—not to mention get you out (did we mention it’s a labyrinth?). The Furnace has no trails, signs, or cairns. GPS units do not work well due to the towering sandstone walls. Navigating its complex passages requires physical agility and careful observation. nps.gov

In the rough

Charlie Sturgis midride on a Rambler in Park City’s Round Valley trail network.

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Bonneville School of Sailing on Utah Lake will let you take the helm for two hours, ask questions, try some master-andcommander tacking and jibing and maybe even a heave-to. (Don’t even think about mutiny.) It’s a great way to find out if sailing is for you at $95 per person. Warning: Utah Lake is the largest body of fresh water west of the Mississippi and Indians and pioneers chronicled sightings of sea monsters and mysterious water babies. bonnevillesailing. com/discover-sailing

appreciate Utah’s outdoor magnificance, than seeing it in a 360º view from the top of a mountain. A favorite: Bald Mountain, in the Uintas, just off Mirror Lake Highway. In 2-3 hours, on an easy trail, you ascend to the nealry 12,000-foot peak. 5) Join Mountain Trails Foundation. Charile is not shy about pitching for his team here. Min $10, mountaintrails.org

At Wasatch Mountain State Park you can combine your love of the outdoors with your addiction to the sport of wimps. Pitch your tent or park your RV in Pine Creek Campground and reserve a tee time at one of the 18-hole courses nearby. utah.govpark

Climb in. Then climb out.

Momentum’s new climbing gym in Mill Creek is state of the (inside) art. 220 W. 10600 South, Sandy, 801-990-6890 (801) 990-6890 s a lt l a k e m a g a z i n e . c o m jul/aug 2014

Home & Family Survival Guide

Utah is all about family. Along with having some of the biggest families in the Union, we’re known for mapping our family trees, Monday family nights and all-around family values. Here’s how to survive the Beehive with your fam.

Survive Saturday afternoon.

Bounce Out the Angst.

Once the cartoons stop and infomercials start, you’ve got to find something to entertain the kids on a Saturday. Survive at Repertory Dance Theatre’s monthly performances for kids and fam, featuring local and touring storytellers, musicians, dancers and more. Only $5 per head. Performances at Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. Broadway, SLC, 801-355-ARTS, rdtutah.org/forkids

Avoid back talk and let kids jump out their aggression at The Wairhouse Trampoline Park. Jumping is $25 on Monday night for a family with up to six kids (perfect, right?). Once they’re done hopping, calmly explain why making a flamethrower from a lighter and hairspray was a bad idea. 3653 S. 500 West, SLC, 801-266-JUMP, thewairhouse.com

must-see spots for families from Discovery Gateway’s CEO—we should have guessed number one.

1) Discovery Gateway: The Children’s Museum of Utah The museum introduces kids to the principles of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) with hands-on exhibits, preschool classes, summer camps, VIP guests and more. discoverygateway.org 2) The Utah State Capitol Celebrating its 100th birthday, the Capitol is where new Utahns can learn what

happened before they arrived just by gazing upon its exhibits and murals. utahstatecapitol.utah.gov 3. Utah’s state and national parks, monuments and landmarks In particular, Farrington recommends the ones where you can see ancient animal fossils. See nearly 1,500 dinosaur fossils in the cliff face at Dinosaur National Monument on the border of

Utah and Colorado. 4. The Great Salt Lake “It’s fun to go to Bridger Bay Beach on the north end of Antelope Island and float in the water,” Farrington says. See why else you should love the lake on page 64. 5. Your own neighborhood Just about every Utah city hosts its own events, whether it’s for Fourth of July, an annual 5K or a block party.

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Maria Farrington

Maria Farrington knows Utah families. In fact, as CEO of Discovery Gateway, families are pretty much her business. “This is a magical place for families to carve out time in their busy schedules to play together,” she says. “It’s the perfect place where parents can trust that kids can be safe while they play and imagine to be a store clerk, or a surgeon at Primary Children’s Hospital or even a Life Flight helicopter pilot.” Before the museum, Farrington directed Eccles/Annenberg Challenge grant for Salt Lake City School District, where she helped raise funds and awareness of methods for teaching diverse student populations. “I also had the honor of working to inspire parents to help bridge the gap between home and school,” she says. But most of her family expertise comes from experience: Farrington moved from Texas to Utah with her husband Bob in 1992 to raise their two sons. Lately, she’s been working the info desk, where she helps staff check in members, giving her a chance to visit with families.

Culture Your Kids.

Once you scratch the surface, Utah’s a pretty diverse place. Teach the kids about our many cultures at Utah Cultural Celebration Center’s free WorldStage! Summer Concert Series, featuring acts like Brazilian drum and dance group Samba Fogo on July 21. Shows are free on Monday nights in July and August. 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley, 801-9655100, culturalcelebration.org

Fatherhood

Mommy bloggers are a dime a dozen, but there’s not too many daddy bloggers. When he’s not cooking, cleaning, shopping and doing the laundry for his fam of three, Jason Dunnigan writes about male nurturing and offers survival tips for other loving dads on the-modern-dad.com

Your Pet’s Survival

Don’t trust the snotnosed neighbor kid to watch over Fido. Give your dog his own vacation at Camp Bark-a-Lot, where there’s a trained staff, kiddie pools for splashing and other friendly dogs for play. Along with doggy day care and boarding, Bark-a-Lot offers grooming and takes in cats. 360 W. Whitney Ave., SLC, 801-485-2030, campbarkalot.com

Exact Your Revenge.

Fling Jell-O at your kids and spouse and get away with it at Thanksgiving Point’s Jiggle Fest Jell-O fight on July 19. Hundreds of gallons of Utah’s state snack will be on hand, and all ages are welcome. After the battle, sprinklers will wash off the goop and you can enjoy a Utah foods cooking contest and outdoor movie screening with the family. 3003 N. Thanksgiving Way, Lehi, 801-768-2300, thanksgivingpoint.org

Halloween Survival

Bring your kids to Ogden’s Historic 25th Street for Halloween fun, including the annual Witchstock, pumpkin contest, trick-or-treating and ghost tours. It beats a trunk-or-treat. Find more info on Halloween on 25th at historic25.com

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One of the best things about Brewvies is actually that they card you to get in. Survive parenthood by seeing a film with other adults, while enjoying local craft beer. They also hold free Film Buff Nights, Mondays at 10 p.m., where they screen old favorites, like Clerks, Lethal Weapon and Pulp Fiction. 677 S. 200 West, SLC, 801-322-3891, brewvies.com

Work, family and other stuff gets in the way of romance. Let the pros at AmberMay dating services make all of your reservations for a romantic evening on the town. 801-449-0879, ambermaydate.com

Come Together

Bond as a family, survive as a family. At Aspen Grove Family Camp, families connect by bunking together and participating in campfires, crafts and other camp stuff. Camp also offers activities just for grown-ups, like hikes, adult swims and pottery class. 9521 N. Alpine Loop Rd., Provo, 801-225-9554, aspengrove.byu.edu

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The Rating System

Face it, the line between PG and PG-13 is pretty thin, but Deseret News movie critic Chris Hicks is here to help. He wrote his book Has Hollywood Lost Its Mind? to help parents navigate the flawed movie rating system to decide what’s best for kids to see. Available on amazon.com

Escape to Snowbird

Your boss breathing down your neck, misbehaving kids, bills, your mother in law—none of that matters when you’re flying down Little Cottonwood on Snowbird’s new Mountain Coaster (the kids will love it, too). Or hire a baby-

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K A) 2014 Subaru Outback 2.5i Limited,$29.188, MarkMillerSubaru.com, SLC. B) Waggiwear Collar, $26; Dog Treats Waffles, Superior Farms Pet Provisions, $9.75; Fozzy Dog leash, $33.98; West Paws Design Bumi, $14.98, The Dogs Meow, SLC. C) Melissa & Doug stuffed panda, $79.99, Tutoring Toy, SLC. D) Maxi Cosi AP Infant carseat, $199.99, Babinski’s Baby, SLC. E) Como Tomo bottle, $13.99, Babinski’s Baby. F) Green Toys Recycling Truck, 27.99, Babinski’s Baby. G) Board games, $40–$50, Game Night Games, SLC. H) Sunnylife Accordian, $59, D The Children’s Hour, SLC. I) Spelling Puzzle, $18, The Children’s Hour. J) Maps book, $35, The Children’s Hour. K) Madam Alexander baby doll, $58, The Children’s Hour. L) Folkmanis Puppets Saw-whet Owl Puppet, $28, The Children’s Hour. M) Jazz coffee mug, $30 for two, Fanzz, SLC. N) Graphic novels, $15–$30 each, Night Flight Comics, SLC. O) Birthday cake, $96.50, Mrs. Backer’s Pastry Shop, SLC. P) Watering can, $29.95, BloomingSales, SLC. Q) Oversized candy, $10–$20, It’sSugar, Farmington.

sitter and get the kinks out with a soothing massage at The Cliff Spa. Highway 210, Little Cottonwood Canyon, 801-933-2222, snowbird.com

Stroller Tours

Take your off-the-wall kids with you to see beautiful contemporary art without glares from snooty art patrons. Once per month, UMOCA allows you to bring kids (crying babies included) through their exhibit space an hour before the museum opens to

the public. 20 S. West Temple, SLC, 801-3284201, utahmoca.org

Indie Film

Help indie film survive by introducing the art to the next generation. Utah Film Center curates the best indie kids films every year at the Tumbleweeds Film Festival, which recently screened Sundance Film Festival alums Ernest & Celestine and Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang. Find more info on the event and films at kidsfilm.org. s a lt l a k e m a g a z i n e . c o m jul/aug 2014

Food Survival Guide

Yes, we live in a desert here, but it’s not a food desert. Utah’s food culture is bountiful–the same great local foods that our chefs keep in their pantries are available for home chefs to use. Here are some essentials for eating well in the Beehive.

Develop your pizza palate.

Utah cuisine is growing by leaps and bounds, but the fastest and best-growing category has to be pizza. Take your pizza palate to the next level. You’ll find fabulous pizza in most Utah towns: Orem, Bountiful, Logan, St. George. Take a look at our pizza article on p. 60.

Learn to love beer.

Cocktails, schmocktails—Utahns still love beer best. Local award-winning breweries like Squatters come out with new brews all the time. This year, Uinta in-

troduced “Birthday Suit,” an unfiltered sour farmhouse ale, with 6.3 percent alcohol by volume and a label by local artist Travis Bone. Plus, The Beer Bar opened, serving over 140 different beers.

Learn to forage.

Mushrooms, wild watercress, spring onions and ramps, elderberries, chokecherries, nettles and fiddlehead ferns—these are just a few of Utah’s natural edible treasures. And that’s not even going into the wild game possibilities. Learn to harvest from the mountains we live in; classes in mushroom hunting and foraging are available through the continuing education program at the U. continue.utah.edu. Watch for regular foraging tips and recipes at slmag.com.

Solve market gridlock.

Utah is almost overendowed with Farmers Markets. Holladay, Mill Creek, Park City, Ogden, Garden City, Spring City—pretty much every burg has its farmers market. Most are on the weekend and then jammed with strollers, pets and noshers, so our advice is: Shop the Tuesday night Harvest Market that pops at the height of Northern Utah’s true growing season: September. For the market nearest you, go to utahsown.utah.gov/farmersmarkets for an interactive map of markets.

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A)You can buy High West’s Campfire from the Park City distillery on Sunday. B) Solstice Chocolate is the latest great Utah chocolate. C) Creminelli bacon or birra salami and a pizza kit. D) Dutch oven: We may be the only state with an official cooking utensil. E) The holy trinity of Utah produce is Green River melons, Bear Lake raspberries, Brigham City peaches. F) Frody Volgger’s handmade sausage is a Caputo’s star G) Start your garden with plants from Red Butte Gardens’ annual sale. H) Small wineries (like Bucklin) get a DABC discount, meaning a good deal for you. I) Find the coolest vintage bar accessories at Now & Again, on Broadway.

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Immigrant and refugee newcomers to Utah learn to market their skills with the food of their homeland at Spice Kitchen Incubator, a new project by the International Rescue Committee (IRC), in partnership with Salt Lake County. It’s a community kitchen space bringing together refugees and other disadvantaged community members interested in starting a full or part-time food business. spicekitchenincubator.org. Get inspired by U graduate Erik Larsen and his wife Cori. The University of Utah’s Lassonde Institute helped them open their first cupcake business—Heaven Cupcake. Last year, the Larsen’s opened the first of what they hope will be 30 or 40 Boston Cupcakery cupcake shops—in Mumbai, India. Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, University of Utah, 105 Fort Douglas Blvd., SLC, 801-587-33836, lassonde.utah.edu

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Support your eating habit.

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Get a meal on a Sunday.

There comes a time on Sunday afternoons, between Saturday’s partying and the looming reality of Monday, when you need some comfort food. Then the harsh reality hits: It’s Sunday in Utah. Everything is closed. You can get good pizza (page 60) but for Sunday night supper, you need to go to The Copper Onion or Pig and a Jelly Jar, happily re-opened after a kitchen fire. Pig and a Jelly Jar, 401 E. 900 South, SLC, 385- 202-7366. The Copper Onion, 111 E. Broadway, SLC, 801-355-3282

Be a backyard farmer.

Plant a garden, raise some chickens, keep some bees. Wasatch Community Gardens can show you how to do it all. wasatchgardens.org/workshops

Polish your kitchen skills.

Sometimes your kitchen is the best place to eat. Improve your skills and pick up new tricks at the Salt Lake Culinary Center, which offers a range of cooking classes. The Park City Culinary Institute relies on local chefs as instructors; besides kitchen skills, the Institute uses cooking to teach team building. Salt Lake Culinary Center, 2233 S. 300 East, SLC, 801-464-0113. Park City Culinary Center, 7720 Royal St., Park City, 435-659-5075

Know where to get wine by the glass.

If you’re looking for a more complicated answer than “red or white” when you ask for wine by the glass, you can now depend on BTG (By the Glass) wine bar—it has over 50 ever-changing selections. 63 W. 100 South, SLC, 801-359-2814

Eat your vegetables. And your chocolate.

Former Deer Valley pastry chef shares her love of vegetables in her blog, Letty’s Kitchen, offering recipes like black rice veggie burgers. But Letty also loves chocolate: try the dairy-free Chocolate Honey Pie. lettyskitchen.com

Enjoy coffee for coffee’s sake.

Forget caramel low-fat soy milk macchiato. Try a cup of coffee

Dave Jones, chef at Log Haven, generally considered one of the West’s finest restaurants, gives grape jelly the attention normally reserved for premiers crus. Jones trained at the California Culinary Academy, has cooked at the Beard House and with such luminaries as Louis Palladin. He has a gleam in his eye as he tastes jelly made from mahonia, or Oregon grapes—he knows just where to pick some in the hills behind Log Haven. The landscape surrounding the historic cabin is integral to Log Haven’s ambiance and Jones is making it part of the restaurant’s menu, too. An avid organic gardener and forager and an outspoken advocate of local and organic foods, he scours the mountains for mushrooms and other local edible plants. With the advice of Dr. Ty Harrison, a botanist, naturalist and forager, Jones is planning Project Wild, a native edibles garden at Log Haven, to supply the restaurant kitchen with wild onions, nettles, watercress, purslane, rosehips, cress, elderberries, chokecherries and Oregon grapes.

Chef Dave Jones, shrooming in the Wasatch Mtns.

intense local flavors Chef Jones keeps on hand, and recommends for every Utah pantry:

1) High West whiskey Essential for deglazing pans and adding oomph to sauces. (Not to mention the chef.) 2) Creminelli salami... and speck made the Old World way right here in Utah.

3) Dried, fresh and frozen porcini Jones likes to find his own mushrooms in the Uintahs, but if Nature runs short, he uses dried or frozen. 4) Gold Creek smoked parmesan Besides its usual uses on

from a bean so rare, roasted so perfectly you don’t need to cover up the flavor Starbucksstyle. John and Yching Piquet do this so well at Caffe d’Bolla we should call them superbaristas. Or, as Food & Wine writer Al Franco suggested, “Cafeliers.” 249 E. 400 South, SLC, 801- 355-1398

Find yourself a CSA.

Community Supported Agriculture is how citizens can support farmers in the simplest way: Buy a weekly delivery of fruits, vegetables, cheese, meats—CSA’s offer different packages. Here’s how to find the best match. 6782 S. 1300 East, Cottonwood Heights, 801-209-7321, csautah.org

salad and pasta, this nutty parm can adds umami to soups, breads and crusts. 5) Koosharem steelhead trout Harvested in the morning, on the menu in the evening, these fish are sustainably farmed in the greenest possible way.

Support co-dependence.

Utah food producers are remarkably mutually supportive—they use each other’s products to flavor their own. Creminelli uses High West Boureye to flavor its salami. Beehive’s Seahive Cheese is rubbed with local honey and Redmond’s salt. Butcher’s Bunches uses local fruit in its spreads.

Remember how to converse.

You CAN enjoy a cup of coffee without the internet. The Rose Establishment’s ultrahipster no-WIFI ambiance encourages leisurely sipping and talking with live people sitting right there with you. 235 S. 400 West, SLC, 801-990-6270 s a lt l a k e m a g a z i n e . c o m jul/aug 2014

Wasatch Faults Of course, it’s not all butterflies and red balloons in the Beehive State. We would be remiss if we didn’t include a list of losers as well.

A Kiss is Still a Kiss

Pioneer Theatre Company Managing Director Chris Lino got national props for his cheeky reaction to a mother of a teenager who was angry they were subjected to the “repulsive” sight of two male characters kissing in the whodunnit Deathtrap. Lino noted that the customer apparently was more disgusted by a pretend gay kiss than the play’s depiction of murder. In a coup-de-grace, Lino unilaterally removed the offended woman from the theater’s mailing list and released her season tickets.

Family Feud

Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes not only rolled back Utah’s brief moment of same-sex matrimony, but he pushed to undo a slew of adoption filings of same-sex couples—legally dismantling families, which as any real Utahn knows, are the building blocks of civilization.

On the other hand

Tyler Glenn, lead singer of Neon Trees and an active, believing Mormon, came out of the closet in a Rolling Stone article. Who’s next? Donny and Marie? The entire Mo-Tab? (As far as asking how a devout gay could remain a committed Mormon—don’t go there.)

Spidey Sense OF Moroni’s Utah, accustomed to being highly ranked for TH and wing-nut politics, surprised volunteerism Ebeing named the nation’s No. 1 the world by Nerdiest State, based on our geeky fascination with Pokéman, Doctor Who and characters like Darth Vader, the Joker and Green Goblin—putting to rest questions of how Orrin Hatch could be reelected for four decades.

Baptism by Fire

Utah’s new and extremely hideous federal courthouse opened with a bang. In the first hearing in the building, federal marshals riddled a defendant with bullets, giving new meaning to the term “swift justice.” Suspected gang member Siale Angilau made the mistake of not saying “I object!” before leaping over a table to shank a smacktalking witness with a ball-point pen.

Lurching Toward Oblivion

It was an accelerating year of bad news at The Salt Lake Tribune, which has spiraled

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from the state’s Independent Voice to the Rodney Dangerfield of rags. Its new owners—who, as best we can figure, office above a pawn shop in Queens—laid off staff, sold its presses and profits to the LDS propaganda ministry—otherwise known as KSL/ Deseret News for some pieces of silver.

A dragon ate my hard drive!

Former Attorney General John Swallow, investigated in 2013 on allegations he “put a for sale sign” on his office, suffered an unprecedented run of bad luck with digital devices. Swallow was stymied in proving his innocence by negligent and AWOL electronic devices, including a lost Ipad and a cellphone that erased all evidence of what a stand-up dude he is. Most frustrating, Swallow lost his back-up drive during a family vacation in Disneyland. (Check the “Mad Tea Party” ride. We understand Swallow rode it repeatedly.) Critics weren’t sympathetic. “Unless you believe in some sort of mystical technology-eating dragon,” said one, “there’s got to be some obstruction.”

Real goblins stand up!

Three Boy Scout leaders/Visigoths destroyed a rock formation in Goblin Valley State Park. To prove beyond a doubt that they are indeed idiots, the youth leaders made a video of the crime and put it on YouTube. Oops.

Heads will roll

Rep. Paul Ray calls for a return to the firing squad as an “efficient” way to execute folks. Rep. Oda, who once advocated the clubbing and decapitation of stray pets, is expected to one-up Ray with a guillotine option.

Bundies in a bunch

San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman in May led 200 ATV-ridin’ yahoos into fragile Recapture Canyon. The “overreaching” BLM, which owns the land, had the audacity to close the area to protect its prehistoric sites. A deputation came from Nevada slavery advocate Cliven Bundy who denies the existence of the U.S. Government, not to mention its overreaching Emancipation Proclamation.

UofU researchers chill out

Police busted four U of U students in February who were smoking pot in an igloo. Even the cops were impressed with the students’ science project, a 5-foot-high igloo with 10-inch-thick walls, which theoretically concentrated and cooled the marijuana smoke, much like, one of the researchers explained: a humonguous, livein, cold-fusion bong, dude! It also kept beer cold. “They did quite an elaborate job on it,” said a police spokesman. “There was a cardboard door and a stick acting as a hinge.” Nevertheless, the young innovators were turned over to university officials for discipline. The police, apparently not that impressed after all, destroyed the igloo.

Mountain Don’t

In a world of caffeine-fueled energy drinks—Red Bull, Reload, Hype, RockStar, Monster, etc.—Utah fires back, as only Utah can, with Chillax, an unenergy drink, bottled from a natural spring in our most listless, uninspiring city, Sandy. Thus, if you’re so “hopped-up” you are considering something off the hook like same-sex marriage or passing an anti-discrimination law or wearing a color, quaff a bottle of Chillax.

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One for one. Eat to give. Even Stevens’ sandwiches could change the world. Steve Down has big ideas. About how to

achieve world peace, for instance. “It just seems to me,” he says, “that we’re never going to have world peace as long as people are hungry.” So he’s leaving the yakkety-yak to the diplomats and tackling the problem in a practical, entrepreneurial way. Founder of Financially Fit financial advisers and cofounder of Noah Corporation event centers, Down’s a natural entrepreneur of the smartest kind—he combines the best ideas of others and creates a whole new enterprise. His new sandwich shop, Even Stevens, for example, combines the gourmet quality of one of the country’s top delis with the altruism of one of the country’s top young companies. Zingerman’s plus TOM’s Shoes equals Even Stevens. The new sandwich shop pledges that for every sandwich purchased by a customer, Even Stevens will donate a sandwich to one of its nonprofit partners in SLC. One for one. Eat to give. “Think about it,” Down says. “We’re projecting we’ll sell 50,000 sandwiches our first year from this location. Our goal is to have 100 restaurants around the world by 2020. You do the math.” Even Stevens will work with a food distributor to deliver sandwich ingredients (in bulk, equal to sandwiches sold) to local organizations that feed the hungry. Even Stevens’ menu goes far beyond basics, though, and even beyond sandwiches–there’s a breakfast menu and a list of snacks. Sandwich choices include roasted turkey, but the meat is layered with provolone, cranberry jalapeno jelly, cucumbers and slow-roasted tomatoes. Corned beef and chicken are “clean label,” and if you don’t want a sandwich, you can try an exotic salad like apricot gorgonzola. Down is taking care that the sandwich ingredients are nutritionally sound, of high quality and well-made. To make sure the sandwich bread was top-notch, he sent his staff to train at Zingerman’s in Ann Arbor, MI.

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In Salt Lake, Even Stevens’ nonprofit partners are the Boys and Girls Clubs, Volunteers for America, Feeding America and the Utah Food Bank. Down moves fast–once he had the concept, the name was a natural. When he found that a man in China owned the domain name, Down called him up and bought it over the phone. He came up with the idea for his venture on a bet. He was eating a tasty and swiftly delivered Jimmy John’s sandwich with a colleague who asked him, “How could you improve this concept? Give me an answer by the time you finish your sandwich.” A minute later, Down answered, “For every sandwich I sold, I’d give a sandwich to the hungry in the community.” “That’s it,” said his friend. “I’d drive out of my way for that sandwich.” It’s a bet that promises to pay off for all. After all, as Down says, “A full stomach has to come before world peace.” 414 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-727-7242. evenstevens.com

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Bambara Nathan Powers makes decisions about food based on sustainability and the belief that good food should be available to everybody. Using a Burgundian imagination, he turns out dishes with a sophisticated heartiness three times a day. 202 S. Main St., SLC, 801-363-5454. EGLLL – MLL

Forage Young star chef/owners Viet Pham and Bowman Brown have made their mark already. Although Forage belongs to both of them, its kitchen is currently dominated by Brown while Pham is becoming famous on TV. Solo, Brown is serving some of the most exciting food in the state, with every dish presented like a small, scrupulously composed sculpture. Dining here is a commitment and an event. 370 E. 900 South, SLC, 801-708-7834. EGO

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New Yorker Will Pliler has been in the New Yorker’s kitchen since the get-go. His cooking is a mix of traditional flavors and modern twists—a good example is the BLT salad which had us scraping the plate most inelegantly. Café at the New Yorker offers smaller plates—perfect for pre-theater dining. 60 W. Market St., SLC, 801-363-0166. EO DINING

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Pago Tiny, dynamic and food-

Salt Lake’s AAA Five Diamond Awardwinning Grand America Hotel is one of the stars of the city, but Chef Phillip Yates makes sure other meals here are up to the same standard. 555 S. Main St., SLC, 801258-6708. EGMM

driven, Pago’s ingredients are locally-sourced and re-imagined regularly. That’s why it’s often so crowdHall OF ed. The list of wines by the glass is great, Fame butSLM the artisanal cocktails are also a treat. 878 S. 900 East, SLC, 801-532-0777. EGM – N

La Caille Utah’s original glamor girl

Pallet As Portlandia as SLC gets, this

is regaining her luster. The grounds are as beautiful as ever; additions are functional, like greenhouse, grapevines and vegetable gardens, all supplying the kitchen. The interior has been refreshed and the menu, rethought by Chef Billy Sotelo with today’s tastes in mind. Sotelo made his name at Fresco and Faustina, and brings a modern sensibility to this el-

warehouse-chic bistro provides the perfect setting for lingering over cocktails or wine and seasonally inventive food at brunch, lunch, dinner or in between. 237 S. 400 West, SLC, 801-935-4431. EGM

Shallow Shaft Sauces are supreme: Try

a kiwi-tomato salsa on marinated chicken breast or ancho-chili sauce on a Utah rack

of lamb. The excellent wine list offers thoughtful pairings. Alta, 801-742-2177. EN

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Avenues Bistro on Third

This tiny antique storefront offers an experience larger than the square feet would lead you to expect. Hall OF The food is more interesting than ever, Fame SLM breakfast, lunch and dinner. Nosh, listen to music and relax with a drink in the bottle-lined speakeasy. 564 E. Third Ave., SLC, 801-831-5409. EGL

Bistro 222 One of a trio of local

bistros, this one is sleek and urbanely stylish as well as being LEED-certified. You can feel good about that and about the food, graciously served under the direction of Miles Broadhead, one of our city’s finest hosts. Fare ranges from classic ribeye for two to unusual but delicious beet gnocchi. 222 S. Main, SLC, 801-4560347. EGM – N

Blue Lemon Blue Lemon’s sleek interior

and high-concept food have city style. Informal but chic, many-flavored but healthy, Blue Lemon’s unique take on food and service is a happy change from downtown’s food-asusual. 55 W. South Temple, SLC, 801-3282583. GL – M

Summer Somms Scott Evens continues his series of winemaker dinners–small, intensely flavored events. Call for details.

Blue Plate Diner Formica tables, linoleum floors, Elvis kitsch and tunes on the jukebox make this an allAmerican fave. Pancakes, patty melts and chicken-fried steak in sausage gravy over smashed potatoes and burgers are comfort food at its best. 2041 S. 2100 East, SLC, 801463-1151. GL s a lt l a k e m a g a z i n e . c o m jul/aug 2014

Caffe Niche Anytime is the best time to eat here—the house smoked salmon is good three times a day. Chef Ethan Lappe sources food all over northern Utah. In the morning, try homemade Hall OF English muffins. End your evening with the brilliant Fame SLM grapefruit brulee. 779 E. 300 South, SLC, 801-433-3380. EGL – N DINING

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Citris Grill Most dishes come in either “hearty”

or “petite” portion sizes. This means you can enjoy a smoked salmon pizzetta or fried rock shrimp appetizer and then a petite order of fire-roasted pork chops with adobo rub and black bean-corn salsa. Expect crowds. 2991 E. 3300 South, SLC, 801-466-1202. EGM

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Copper Onion An instant hit when it opened, Ryan

Lowder’s Copper Onion has improved steadily: Specials are more special, the menu is more balanced (a little less fat, a little less salt) and with the recent rejiggering of space, the space is even more welcoming. Drop in, have one of Jimmy Santangelo’s seasonal cocktails and food to sate anytime hunger pangs. 111 E. Broadway, SLC, 801-355-3282 EGL – N

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The Dodo It’s hard even to update the review of this venerable bistro: So much stays the same. But, like I always say, it’s nice to know where to get quiche when you want it. And our raspberry crepes were great. Yes, I said crepes. From the same era as quiche. 1355 E. 2100 South, SLC, 801-486-2473. EGM Em’s Restaurant Em’s is committed to the highest quality ingredients and preparation. For lunch, try the sandwiches on ciabatta. At dinner, the kitchen moves up the food chain. 271 N. Center St., SLC, 801-596-0566. EGM

Epic Chef/owner Ken Rose’s American food borrows from other cuisines. Save room for pineapple sorbet with stewed fresh pineapple. 707 E. Fort Union Blvd., Midvale, 801-748-1300. EGM Faustina Inventive, modern food for lunch and dinner. A longer list of intriguing small plates can make and Hillary Merrill’s wine list is always interesting. 454 E. 300 South, SLC, 801-746-4441. EGN Lamb’s Grill Café They say it’s the oldest

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dedicated pie shelf. Because no matter what you’re eating—liver and onions, raspberry pancakes, meat loaf or a reuben—you’ll want to save room for pie. Tip: Order your favorite pie first, in case they run out. Now serving beer and wine. 68 W. 3900 S., SLC, 801-2664322. EGL

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charming spaces, the atmosphere here trumps City Creek’s new eateries. Eat at your own pace, the full meal deal or the tapas—Moroccan shredded beef on gingered couscous, smoked Utah trout with caperberry sauce. For dessert, the caramel-sauced gingerbread, or the dessert wine tasting. 22 E. 100 South, SLC, 801-363-9328. EN

Meditrina Meditrina has secured its place

as a great spot for wine and apps, wine and supper or wine and a late-night snack. Try the Oreos in red wine. 1394 S. West Temple, SLC, 801-503-0362. EGLM

Moochie’s This itty-bitty eatery/take-

out joint is the place to go for authentic cheesesteaks made with thinly sliced steak and griddled onions glued together with good ol’ American cheese and wrapped in a big, soft so-called French roll. 232 E. 800 South, SLC, 801-596-1350 or 364-0232; 7725 S. State St., Midvale, 801-562-1500. GL

Oasis Cafe Oasis has a New Age vibe, but

the food’s only agenda is taste. Lots of veg options, but meat, too. The German pancakes are wonderful, but the evening menu suits

the space—imaginative and refreshing. 151 S. 500 East, SLC, 801-322-0404. EGL – M

Piñon Market and Café Piñon is a breakfast and lunch mainstay, but remember it for dinner too. It’s the perfect place to pick up a picnic for an outdoor concert or day hike and check out their healthy menu. 2095 E. 1300 South, SLC, 801-582-4539. GM

Porcupine Pub and Grille With 24

beers on tap available for only $2 every Tuesday, Porcupine has practically created its own holiday. Chicken noodle soup has homemade noodles and lots of chicken; burgers and chile verde burritos are good, too. 3698 E. Fort Union Blvd., SLC, 801-942-5555. EGL – M

Red Butte Café This neighborhood place emphasizes Southwestern flavors and premium beers. Try the portobello with mozzarella and caramelized onions or beef with ancho jus. 1414 S. Foothill Blvd., SLC, 801-5819498. EGL Restaurants at Temple Square

There are four restaurants here: Little Nauvoo Café (801-539-3346) serves breakfast, lunch and dinner; Lion House Pantry (801-5393257) serves lunch and dinner buffet-style (it’s famous for the hot rolls, a Thanksgiving tradi-

tion in many Salt Lake households); The Garden (801-539-3170) serves lunch and dinner (don’t miss the fried dill pickles); and The Roof (801-539-1911), a finer dining option eye-to-eye with Moroni on top of the Temple, is open for dinner, with a mammoth dessert buffet. 15 E. South Temple, SLC. GL – M

Roots Café A charming little daytime cafe in Millcreek with a wholesome granola vibe, three meals a day. 3474 S. 2300 E. East Millcreek, 801-277-6499, GL – M

Ruth’s Diner The original funky trolley car is almost buried by the beer garden in fine weather, but Ruth’s still serves up diner food in a low-key setting, and the patio is one of the best. Collegiate fare like burgers, BLTs and enchiladas in big portions rule here. The giant biscuits come with every meal, and the chocolate pudding should. 2100 Emigration Canyon, SLC, 801-582-5807 EL – M Silver Fork Lodge Silver Fork’s kitchen handles three daily meals beautifully. Try pancakes made with a 50-year-old sourdough starter. Don’t miss the smoked trout and brie appetizer. No more corkage fees, so bring your own. 11332 E. Big Cottonwood Canyon, Brighton, 888-649-9551. EGL – M

Best Brunch Oasis was the only Utah restaurant to make Open Table’s list of “Top 100 Brunch Spots.” Find out why.

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The Garage

Franck’s

Curry Fried Chicken

Copper Common

summer fare

Fried x Five The South's traditional dish gets four different twists from four local kitchens. The moral: Play with your food.

Pig and a Jelly Jar

Bar Chicken The best in beer soak-ups: three pieces of deep fried, on a hefty waffle. Or you can have it “roadkill” style–flattened, fried, between the buns. Best with a Bloody Mary. Or another beer. The Garage, 1199 Beck St., 801-521-3904 Chef Fried Franck’s was the first chef-run restaurant to sell schmancy fried chicken; now the eponymous chef is gone, but the kitchen remains. It may have herbs in the crust or

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it may have coconut–it’s the chef’s choice and you’ll like it. Franck’s, 6263 S. Holladay Blvd., Holladay, 801-274-6264 Breakfast Chicken Straight-up Southern fried, on a waffle, with the North’s purest maple syrup. Don’t mistake chef Amy Britt for your momma. That’s just the chicken talking. Pig and a Jelly Jar, 401 E. 900 South, SLC, 385-202-7366 Pub Chicken No, it’s not the same as bar chicken. This fancy fry goes with artisanal cocktails, not Bud Lite, so of course it’s heaped with obscure vegetables. Copper Common, 111 E. 300 South, SLC, 801-355-0543

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Curried Fried Chicken Brilliant: curry and other Pakistani spices in the dredging flour, then pan-cooked for a true fusion fry. Curry Fried Chicken, 660 S. State St, SLC, 801-924-9187

dining guide Stella Grill A cool little arts-and-crafts-

style café, Stella is balanced between trendy and tried-and-true. The careful cooking comes with moderate prices. Great for lunch. 4291 S. 900 East, SLC, 801-288-0051. EGL – M

Tiburon Servings at Tiburon are large and rich: Elk tenderloin was enriched with mushrooms and demi-glace; a big, creamy wedge of St. Andre came with pork belly. In summer, tomatoes come from the garden. 8256 S. 700 East, Sandy, 801-255-1200. EGLLL

herbed goat cheese on a chewy baguette. 314 W. 300 South, SLC, 801-366-4484. GL

Elizabeth’s English Bakery Serving ohso-British pasties, scones, sausage rolls and tea, along with a selection of imported shelf goods for those in exile from the Isles. 439 E. 900 South, SLC, 801-422-1170. GL DINING

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Eva’s Boulangerie A smart

grown into one of Salt Lake’s premier dining destinations. Chef Jerry Liedtke can make magic with anything from a snack to a full meal, vegetarian or omnivore. 365 W. 400 South, SLC, 801-328-4155. EGLL

French-style cafe and bakery in the heart of downtown. Different bakers are behind the patisserie and the boulangeHall OF rie, meaning sweet and daily breads get the Fame SLM attention they deserve. Go for classics like onion soup and croque monsieur, but don’t ignore other specials and always leave with at least one loaf of bread. 155 S. Main St., SLC, 801-359-8447. GL

The Wild Grape Troy Greenhawt bases his

Gourmandise This downtown mainstay

Tin Angel From boho bistro, Tin Angel has

business on super-convenient flexibility—it’s open for weekend brunch, lunch, dinner, Sunday supper and late-night noshing. Bartender Sean Neves is one of the city’s best. 481 E. South Temple, SLC, 801-746-5565. EGL – M

Bakeries, coffee houses & Cafés

Carlucci’s Bakery Pastry and a few hot

dishes make this a fave morning stop, but desserts are showstoppers. For lunch, try the

has cheesecakes, cannoli, napoleons, pies, cookies, muffins and flaky croissants. And don’t forget breads and rolls to take home. 250 S. 300 East, SLC, 801-328-3330. GL

La Bonne Vie Cuter than a cupcake, Grand America’s new pastry shop has all the charm of Paris. The pretty windows alone are worth a visit. 555 S. Main St., SLC, 800-621-4505. GL

Les Madeleines The kouign aman still reigns supreme among Salt Lake City pastries, but with a hot breakfast menu and lunch options Les Mad is more than a great bakery. 216 E. 500 South, SLC, 801-3552294. GL Mini’s Leslie Fiet has added 7-inch pies to

her bakery’s repertoire of cupcakes. (“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” has Tiffany-blue icing.) Don’t forget the box lunches. 14 E. 800 South, SLC, 801-363-0608; 1751 S. 1100 East, SLC, 801-746-2208 GL

Salt Lake Roasting Company At SLC’s original coffee shop, owner John Bolton buys and roasts the better-thanfair-trade beans. Baker Dave Wheeler turns out terrific baked goods, and lunch here is your secret weapon. 320 E. 400 South, SLC, 801-748-4887. GL So Cupcake Choose a mini or a full cake, mix and match cakes and icings, or try a house creation, like Hanky Panky Red Velvet. 3939 S. Highland Dr., SLC, 801-2748300. GL

The Pullman Loaf Classic American sandwich bread, waiting for its cheese, is in the case at Carlucci’s.

The Rose Establishment The Rose is a place for conversation as much as coffee. But coffee is from Four Barrel Coffee Roast-

Room for dessert is no longer a question. At Kneaders, dessert comes in many forms. Fruit Tarts, Cinnamon Rolls, Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies, Chocolate Domes and Banana Cream Pies, just to name a few. Satisfy cravings of any size with desserts available individually, by the dozen, or in platters, at any of our 20 Utah locations.

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ers, and the cinnamon toast is killer. 235 S. 400 West, SLC, 801-990-6270. GL

Tulie Bakery You can get a little spiritual about pas-

tries this good on a Sunday morning, but at Tulie you can be just as uplifted by a Wednesday lunch. 863 E. 700 South, SLC, 801-883-9741. GL

Barbecue & southern food

Pat’s Barbecue One of Salt Lake City’s best, Pat’s brisket, pork and ribs deserve the spotlight. Don’t miss “Burnt End Fridays.” 155 E. Commonwealth, SLC, 801484-5963. EGL R and R Fresh from a winning turn on the competitive barbecue circuit, twin brothers Rod and Roger Livingston have settled down into a bricks and mortar restaurant with great success. Ribs and brisket are the stars here, but the handbreaded fried okra almost steals the spotlight. 307 W. 600 South, SLC, 801-3640043. GL – M The Sugarhouse Barbecue Company This place

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is a winner for pulled pork, Texas brisket or Memphis ribs. Plus killer sides, like Greek potatoes. 880 E. 2100 South, SLC, 801-463-4800. GM

Bar Grub & Brewpubs

Annex by Epic This is Epic Brewing Company’s

brewpub, though the main brewery is on 300 West. The menu of beer-friendly food was conceived by chef Robert Angellili and stands up to the considerable heft of the beers. 1048 E. 2100 South, SLC, 801-7425490. EGM

Avenues Proper Publick House It’s a restaurant

and brewpub, with the emphasis on small plates and late hours. The food is inventive, the beer is good and—big plus—they serve cocktails as well as brew at this neighborhood hot spot. 376 8th Ave., SLC, 385-2278628. EGM

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Bohemian Brewery & Grill Bohemian keeps a firm connection to its cultural history—so to go with the wonderful Czech beer, you can nosh on potato pancakes, pork chops and goulash. There’s also plenty of American beer fare. 94 E. Fort Union Blvd., Midvale, 801-566-5474. EGM Fats Grill & Pool Keep Fats Grill in your brain’s

Rolodex. It’s a family-friendly pool hall where you can take a break for a brew and also get a home-style meal of grilled chicken. 2182 S. Highland Dr., SLC, 801-4849467. EGM

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MacCool’s Public House An American gastropub, MacCool’s emphasizes its kitchen, but Guinness is still front and center. 1400 S. Foothill Dr., Suite 166, SLC, 801-582-3111; 855 W. Heritage Park Blvd., , Layton, 801728-9111. EGL

The Pub’s Deser t Edge Brewer y Good pub fare and freshly brewed beer make this a hot spot for shoppers, the business crowd and ski bums. Beer classes are r un by brewmaster Chris Haas. 273 Trolley Square, SLC , 801-521-8917. EG M

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Red Rock proves the pleasure of beer as a complement to pizzas, rotisserie chicken and chile polenta. Not to mention brunch. Now open in Fashion Place Mall. 254 S. 200 West, DINING 2014 SLC, 801-521-7446. EGM AWARD

Hall Squatters Pub Brewery One of

the “greenest” restaurants in town, Fame SLM OF

Squatters brews award-winning beers and pairs them with everything from wings to ahi tacos. 147 W. Broadway, SLC, 801-363-2739. EGLM

Breakfast/LUNCH ONLY

Eggs in the City On the weekends, this

place is packed with hipsters whose large dogs wait pantingly outside. It’s a good place to go solo, and the menu runs from healthy wraps to eggs florentine. 1675 E. 1300 South, SLC, 801-581-0809. GM

Finn’s The Scandinavian vibe comes from

but breakfast is the game. Items like a chile verde–smothered breakfast wrap and the pancakes offer serious sustenance. 3084 E. 3300 South, SLC, 801-485-1134. GL

Pig and a Jelly Jar Breakfast and lunch

only, except for Sunday supper. Great chicken and waffles, local eggs, and other breakfasts are served all day, with home-style additions at lunch and a single menu supper on Sunday evenings. Beer only. 410 E. 900 South, SLC, 385-202-7366. GM

Burgers, Sandwiches, Delis

Cucina Deli Cucina is a café, bakery

and deli—good for dinner after a long day, whether it’s lasagna, meatloaf or a chicken pesto salad. The menu has recently expanded to include small plates and surprisingly substantial beer and wine lists.1026 E. Second Ave., SLC, 801-322-3055. EGM DINING

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Feldman’s Deli Finally, SLC has

the heritage of owner Finn Gurholt. At lunch, try the Nordic sandwiches, but Finn’s is most famous for breakfast, served until the doors close at 2:30 p.m. 1624 S. 1100 East, SLC, 801467-4000. GM

a Jewish deli worthy of the name. Stop by for your hot pastrami fix, or to satisfy your latke craving or your yen for Hall OF knishes. 2005 E. 2700 South, SLC, 801-906Fame SLM GL 0369.

Millcreek Café & Egg Works This spiffy neighborhood place is open for lunch,

Good Dog Part of the national hot dog revival, gourmet doggery Good Dog serves

Nathan’s and Sabrett’s weiners, with your choice of toppings. Try the excellent chili. 30 E. Broadway, SLC, 801-364-4217. GL

Guzzi’s Vintage Burgers & Fries The renaissance of the garlic burger is the huge news at this little not-so-fast burger joint, but if you’re not in the mood for that much fragrance, the blue and bacon or the Maui burgers are also terrific. An honest little hole-in-the-wall where potatoes are fried while you wait and so are the bacon and eggs in the breakfast sandwich. 180 E. 800 South, SLC, 801-364-4541. GL RedHot Hot dogs so huge you have to eat

them with a fork. Made by Idaho’s Snake River Farms from 100 percent Kobe beef, they are smoked over hardwood and come in out-there variations, like the banh mi dog. 165 S. Main St., SLC, 801-532-2499. GL

Siegfried’s The only German deli in town is packed with customers ordering bratwurst, wiener schnitzel, sauerkraut and spaetzle. 20 W. 200 South, SLC, 801-355-3891. EGL

The Best Pancakes Finn’s perfect sourdough flapjacks don’t turn to fluffy mush under syrup. And they’re served until closing.

Tonyburgers This home-grown burger house serves fresh-ground beef, toasted buns, twice-fried potatoes and milkshakes made with real scoops of ice cream. No pastrami in sight. 613 E. 400 South, SLC, 801-410-0531. GL

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dining guide Central & South American

Braza Grill Meat, meat and more meat is

the order of the day at this Brazilian-style churrascaria buffet. On the lighter side are plated fish entrées and a salad bar. 5927 S. State St., Murray, 801-506-7788. GM

Rodizio Grill The salad bar offers

Look Forward A new menu and a new Thai cafe are coming from the Wong clan.

Hong Kong Tea House & Restaurant

Authentic, pristine and slightly weird is what we look for in Chinese food—Tea House does honorable renditions of favorites, but it is a rewarding place to go explore. 565 W. 200 South, SLC, 801-531-7010. GM DINING

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J. Wong’s Asian Bistro This

plenty to eat, but the best bang for the buck is the Full Rodizio, a selection of meats—turkey, chicken, beef, pork, seafood and more—plus vegetables and pineapple, brought to your table until you cry “uncle.” 600 S. 700 East, SLC, 801220-0500. EGL – M

is one of the only elegant Chinese restaurants in town, but that doesn’t mean lunch—Chinese or Thai—isn’t a good Hall OF deal. It’s a great deal. Note the specialty ChiFame SLMmenu: Don’t miss the ginger whole fish. nese Call ahead for authentic Peking duck. 163 W. 200 South, SLC, 801-350-0888. EGM

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Little World It’s a definite dive, but its followers are faithful. If you don’t like the ambience, drive through. 1356 S. State St., SLC, 801-467-5213. GL – M

Asian Isle This place probably does as

much takeout as full-service business—traffic is heavy, but the dining room is tiny. The diner gets to mix and match proteins and sauces for the stir-fries; there is also a list of pan-Asian noodle dishes. 488 E. 100 South, SLC, 801-363-8833. GL

Asian Star The menu is not frighteningly authentic or disturbingly Americanized. Dishes are chef-driven, and Chef James seems most comfortable in the melting pot. 7588 S. Union Park Ave., Midvale, 801-5668838. ELL

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Bruges Waffle and Frites The original tiny shop on Broadway turns out waffles made with pearl sugar, topped with fruit, whipped cream or chocolate. Plus frites, Belgian beef stew and a gargantuan sandwich called a mitraillette (or submachine gun). The new, slightly larger Sugar House cafe has a larger menu. 336 W. Broadway, SLC, 801-3634444. 2314 S. Highland Dr., 801-486-9999. GL

Café Madrid Authentic dishes like garlic

soup share the menu with port-sauced lamb shank. Service is courteous and friendly at this family-owned spot. 5244 S. Highland Dr., Holladay, 801-273-0837. EGM

Finca The spirit of Spain is alive and well on the plate at this modern tapateria. Scott Evans, owner of Pago, and chef Phelix Gardner translate Hall OF their love of Spain into food that ranges Fame SLMauthentically to impressionistically from Spanish, using as many local ingredients as possible. 1291 S. 1100 East, SLC, 801-4870699. EGM – N DINING

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Franck’s Founding chef Franck Peissel’s

influence can still be tasted—personal interpretations of continental classics. Some—like the meatloaf—are perennials, but mostly the menu changes according to season and the current chef’s whim. 6263 S. Holladay Blvd., 801-274-6264. EGN

Paris Bistro Welcome the return of true French cuisine via escargots, confit, duck, daube and baked oysters, steak and moules frites and a beautifully Gallic wine list. The Zinc Bar remains the prime place to dine. 1500 S. 1500 East, SLC, 801-4865585. EGN

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Bombay House This biryani mainstay is

sublimely satisfying, from the wise-cracking Sikh host to the friendly server, from the vegetarian entrées to the tandoor’s c arnivore’s delights. No wonder it’s been Salt Lake’s favorite subcontinental restaurant for 20 years. 2731 E. Parley’s Way, SLC, 801-581-0222; 463 N. University Ave., Provo, 801-373-6677; 7726 Campus View Dr., West Jordan, . 801-2820777 EGM – N

Copper Bowl Another excellent Indian restaurant, Copper Bowl is a chic restaurant, upscale and classy, with a full bar and an adventurous menu compared with most local Indian eateries. The buffet is the prettiest in town. 214. W. 600 South, SLC, 801-532-2232.

momos, fat little dumplings like pot-stickers. All the tandoor dishes are good, but Himalayan food is rare, so go for the quanty masala, a stew made of nine different beans. 360 S. State St., SLC, 801-328-2077. EGM

a cultural as well as culinary center, offering cooking classes, specialty groceries and celebration as well as great food. 1098 W. South Jordan Parkway, South Jordan, 801-438-4823. GL – M

Kathmandu Try the Nepalese specialties, including spicy pickles to set off the tandoorroasted meats. Both goat and sami, a kibbehlike mixture of ground lamb and lentils, are available in several styles. 3142 S. Highland Dr., SLC, 801-466-3504. EGM

Spice Bistro India meets the Rat Pack in this restaurant, but the food is all subcontintental soul–spicy curries, Nepalese momos, chicken chili, goat and lots of vegetarian options. A number of American dishes are on the menu, too. 6121 S. Highland Dr., 801-9309855. EGM – N

Royal India Northern Indian tikka masalas and Southern Indian dosas allow diners to enjoy the full range of Indian cuisine. 10263 S. 1300 East, Sandy, 801-572-6123; 55 N. Main St., Bountiful, 801-292-1835. EGL – M

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Curry in a Hurry The Nisar family’s

restaurant is tiny, but fast service and fair prices make this a great take-out spot. But if you opt to dine in, there’s always a Bollywood film on the telly. 2020 S. State St., SLC, 801-467-4137. GL

Himalayan Kitchen SLC’s premier

Indian-Nepalese restaurant features original art, imported copper serving utensils and an ever-expanding menu. Start the meal with

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Lavanya Mahate has imported her style of Indian cooking from South Jordan to SLC. Besides terrific lunch and dinHall OF ner menus, East Indian Cafe offers regular Fame SLM celebrations of specialties like Indian street food or kebabs. Stay tuned. East India Cafe, 26 East St., SLC, 801-203-3325. EGM – N

Saffron Valley Highlighting South Indian street food, one of the glories of subcontinental cuisine, Lavanya Mahate’s restaurant is

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Tandoor Indian Grill Delicious salmon tandoori, sizzling on a plate with onions and peppers like fajitas, is mysteriously not overcooked. Friendly service. 733 E. 3300 South, SLC, 801-833-0994. EGL – M

Italian & Pizza

Amore by Cannella’s A pizza-only off shoot of the neighborhood Italian spot; you can buy it by the slice. 208 E. 500 South, SLC, 801-532-3562. GL Arella’s Chic pizza in Bountiful. Arella’s pies appeal to pizza purists, traditionalists and adventurers, with wood-fired crusts and toppings that range from pear to jalapeno. 535 W. 400 North, Bountiful, 801-294-8800. EGL

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dining guide Café Trio Pizzas from the wood-fired

Nuch’s Pizzeria A New York–sized eatery,

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Per Noi A little chef-owned, red sauce

Caffé Molise The menu is limited, but

excellent. Our penne al caprino tasted as if it had been tossed on the way to our table. 55 W. 100 South, SLC, 801-364-8833. EGM

Caffe Molise BTG A sibling of the Italian restaurant above, BTG is really a wine bar; because the food comes from Caffe Molise’s kitchen, we’re listHall OF ing it here. The draw, though, is the selection Fame of SLM more than 50 wines by the glass (hence the name). Beer, cocktails and specialty spirits also available. 67 W. 200 South, SLC, 801-3592814. EGM DINING

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Farmers Markets

Tis the Season

Right now is the best time for fresh, local produce. Here's where to find it. By heritage, Utahns are farmers, and during the season, nearly every community has its farmers market selling backyard or farm-grown produce in a festive atmosphere. Dates vary, so be sure to call first. Downtown Farmers Market Saturday, 8 a.m.–2 p.m., June–August Pioneer Park, 300 S. 300 West, 801-359-5118 Note: In winter, the market is held in the Rio Grande Station.

Downtown Tuesday Harvest Market Tuesday, 4 p.m.–dusk, August–October Pioneer Park, 300 S. 300 West, 801-359-5118 Murray Farmers Market Friday & Saturday, 9 a.m.–2 p.m., Aug. 2–Oct. 12 200 E. 5200 South, Murray Happy Valley Farmers Market 4801 N. University Ave., Provo July 26–Oct. 25, Fridays, 5:30–9:30 p.m. People’s Market Sunday, 9 a.m.–2 p.m., May–October 900 W. 1000 South, SLC, slcpeoplesmarket.org Sugar House Farmers Market Friday, 4 p.m.–8 p.m., July 11–Oct. 17 Sugarmont Plaza, 227 S. Highland Dr. sugarhousefarmersmarket.com Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market 500 W. 700 South, Logan Saturdays, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Downtown Farmers Market in Ancestor Square 2 W. St. George Blvd., Saint George Saturdays, 9 a.m.–2 p.m.

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Cannella’s Downtown’s essential ItalianAmerican comfort food spot, with a takeout pizza shop, Amore, next door. 204 E. 500 South, SLC, 801-355-8518 EGL – M

Caputo’s Market and Deli A great selec-

tion of olive oils, imported pastas, salamis and house-aged cheeses, including one of the largest selections of fine chocolate in the country. The deli menu doesn’t reflect the market, but is a reliable source for meatball sandwiches and such. 314 W. 300 South, SLC, 801-531-8669; 1516 S. 1500 East, SLC, 801-4866615. EGL

Cucina Vanina A marinara-tinged taste of Southern Italian foods—pasta alla matriciana, pasta e polpette, chicken cacciatore—reminding you what a delight correctly cooked pasta can be. 1844 Fort Union Blvd., Cottonwood, 801-938-9706. EGM Este Pizza Try the “pink” pizza, topped

with ricotta and marinara. Vegan cheese is available, and there’s microbrew on tap. 2148 S. 900 East, SLC, 801-485-3699; 156 E. 200 South, SLC 801-363-2366. EGL

Fresco The kitchen continues the trend of excellence greater than size. Try bucatini tossed with romanesco sprigs, cherry tomatoes, kalamata Hall OF olives, grana padano and olive oil. Desserts Fame areSLM amazing and the place, behind a locally owned bookstore, is utterly charming. 1513 S. 1500 East, SLC, 801-486-1300. EN DINING

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Granato’s Professionals pack the

store at lunch for sandwiches, bread, pasta and sauces. 1391 S. 300 West, SLC, 801-486-5643; 4040 S. 2700 East, SLC, 801-277-7700; 1632 S. Redwood Rd., SLC, 801-433-0940; 4044 S. 2700 East, Holladay, 801-277-7700. GL

meaning tiny, offers big flavor via specialty pastas and wonderful bubbly crusted pizzas. Ricotta is made in-house. 2819 S. 2300 East, SLC, 801-484-0448. EGL

Italian spot catering to its neighborhood. Expect casual, your-hands-on service, hope they have enough glasses to accommodate the wine you bring and order the spinach ravioli. 1588 E. Stratford Ave., SLC, 801-4863333. GL

The Pie Pizzeria College students can live, think and even thrive on a diet of pizza, beer and soft drinks, and The Pie is the quintessential college pizzeria. (There are other locations.) 1320 E. 200 South, SLC, 801582-0193. EL Pizzeria Limone The signature pie at

this new local chain features thinly sliced lemons, which are a terrific addition. Service is cafeteria-style, meaning fast, and the pizza, salads and gelato are remarkably good. 613 E. 400 South; 1380 E. Fort Union Blvd., SLC, 801-733-9305. EGL

Roma Ristorante Don’t be deterred by

the strip mall exterior. Inside, you’ll find dishes like prosciutto-wrapped pork tenderloin and chocolate cake with pomegranate syrup. 5468 S. 900 East, SLC, 801-268-1017.

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Salt Lake Pizza & Pasta And sandwiches and burgers and steak and fish… the menu here has expanded far beyond its name. 1061 E. 2100 South, SLC, 801-4841804. EGL – M Sea Salt The food ranges from ethere-

ally (baby cucumbers with chili flakes and lemon) to earthily (the special ricotta dumplings) scrumptious. Pappardelle with duck ragu and spaghetti with bottarga (Sardinian mullet roe) show pure Italian soul, and while we have lots of good pizza in Utah, Sea Salt’s ranks with the best. 1700 E. 1300 South, 801340-1480. EGN

Settebello Pizzeria Every Neapolitanstyle pie here is hand-shaped by a pizza artisan and baked in a wood-fired oven. And they make great gelato right next door. 260 S. 200 West, SLC, 801-322-3556. GEL – M Siragusa Another strip mall mom and pop find, the two dishes to look out for are sweet potato gnocchi and osso buco made with pork. 4115 Redwood Rd., SLC, 801-268-1520. GEL – M

Tuscany This restaurant’s faux-Tuscan kitsch is mellowing into retro charm, though the glass chandelier is a bit nerve-wracking.

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brick oven are wonderful. One of the city’s premier and perennial lunch spots; in Cottonwood, the brunch is especially popular. 680 S. 900 East, SLC, 801-533-TRIO; 6405 S. 3000 East, Cottonwood, 801-944-8476.

The double-cut pork chop is classic, and so is the chocolate cake. 2832 E. 6200 South, 801-274-0448. EGN

Valter’s Osteria Valter Nassi is back and his new restaurant overflows with his effervescent personality just like Cucina Toscana did. The dining room is beautifully Italianate and set up so Valter can be everywhere at once. Besides your favorites from the old restaurants, there are new delights, including a number of tableside dishes. 173 W. Broadway, SLC, 801-521-4563. EGN

Vinto This easy-to-use trattoria features Amer-

ican-style wood oven-fired pizza, great special pastas and salads. Desserts, made by Amber Billingsley, are perfect. 418 E. 200 South, SLC, 801539-9999. EGM

Japanese

Ahh Sushi!/O’shucks The menu features classic sushi, plus trendy combos. Try the Asian “tapas.” Then there’s the beer bar side of things, which accounts for the peanuts. 22 E. 100 South, SLC, 801-596-8600. EM Dojo In our sushi-saturated city, this lounge-like res-

taurant offers a range of Japanese cuisine—tempura, wagyu, sashimi and rolls. 423 W. 300 South, SLC, 801328-3333. EGN

Ichiban Sushi Sushi with a twist—like the spicy

Funky Charlie Roll, tuna and wasabi-filled, then fried. 336 S. 400 East, SLC, 801-532-7522. EM

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Kyoto The service is friendly, the sushi is fresh, the tempura is amazingly light, and the prices are reasonable. Servings are occidentally large, and service is impeccable. 1080 E. 1300 South, SLC, 801487-3525. EM Koko Kitchen Small, family-run restaurant is a genuine, low-key noodle shop–the ramen is outstanding. 702 S. 300 East, SLC, 801-364-4888. DINING

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Naked Fish Gorgeous fresh, sustainably

sourced fish is the basis of the menu, but the superlatives don’t stop there. The richest Kobe beef around is another highlight, and so is the yakitori Hall OF grill and the sake collection. 67 W. 100 South, SLC, 801Fame SLM 595-8888. GEL – M

Pipa Asian Tapas & Sake Bar Another Pan-Asian

fusion menu—this time, in a westside strip mall, with the list of small plates fortified by a list of sake cocktails. 118 N. 900 West, SLC, 801-326-3639. GEL – M

Shogun Relax in your own private room, while you enjoy finely presented teriyaki, tempura, sukiyaki or something grilled by a chef before your eyes. 321 S. DINING 2014 Main St., SLC, 801-364-7142. GM AWARD

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dining guide Tsunami Besides sushi, the menu offers crispy-light tempura and numerous house cocktails and sake. 2223 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-467-5545; 7628 S. Union Park Ave., Sandy, DINING 801-676-6466. EGM

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Hall Aristo’s The best of local Greek eateries is also one of the city’s best Fame SLM OF

restaurants, period. Fare ranges from Greek greatest hits like gyros and skordalia to Cretan dishes like the chicken braised with okra, but the grilled Greek octopus is what keeps us coming back for more. 224 S. 1300 East, SLC, 801-581-0888. EGM – N

Café Med Get the mezzes platter for some of the best falafel in town. Entrées range from pita sandwiches to gargantuan dinner platters of braised shortribs, roast chicken and pasta. 420 E. 3300 South, SLC, 801-493-0100. EGM DINING

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Layla Layla relies on family reci-

pes. The resulting standards, like hummus and kebabs, are great, but explore some of the more unusual dishes, too. Hall OF 4751 S. Holladay Blvd., Holladay, 801-272-9111. DINING Fame SLM – N 2014 EGM AWARD

Hall Mazza Excellent, with the bright flavor that is the hallmark of Fame SLM OF

Middle Eastern food and a great range of dishes, Mazza has been a go-to for fine food in SLC before there was much fine food at all. 912 E. 900 South, SLC, 801-5214572; 1515 S. 1500 East, SLC, 801-484-9259. EGM – N

Meet fishmonger Brad Stec The fish guy for Gastronomy's Market Street fish markets comes by it naturally. Everyone knows Gastronomy Inc.-owned Market Street restaurants are Salt Lake’s foremost seafood restaurants, but not so many remember that the seafood cafés also house fresh seafood markets. There’s a case at the front of the store, filled with salmon, halibut, shrimp, lobster…in fact, filled with what is on the restaurant’s menu. As Market Street fishmonger Brad Stec says, “The market feeds the restaurant menu.” Stec is a trained chef but his father ran Market Street seafood markets for years, and when dad retired, son got the job. “I was interested in seafood and had been working in the seafood markets, so it was a natural step,” says Stec. Now he’s the in-house expert: He wrote the reference guide for all Market Street’s markets—a complex piece of work, because Gastronomy flies in seafood daily from Alaska, Hawaii and other U.S. fisheries. “It’s all domestic,” says Stec, “and we buy whole fish (breaking them down in-house) according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s list of sustainable fishing and seasonality.” In the summer, white cedar-plank salmon is a favorite. “We have the cedar flown in from Wisconsin–you can taste the difference in the wood,” says Stec. The markets sold 1,000 planks last season. Customers have also come to expect the killer live lobster available over the Fourth of July weekend. Markets open daily at 10 a.m.

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Olive Bistro This downtown cafe offers light salads and panini, some tapas, a list of wines and beers. 57 W. Main St., SLC, 801364-1401. EGM

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Alamexo A fresh take on Mexican

food from award-winning chef Matthew Lake whose New York Rosa Mexicano was “the gold standard.” More Hall OF upscale than a taco joint, but nowhere near Fame SLM tablecloth, this bright inviting cafe offers white tableside guacamole; the rest of the menu, from margaritas to mole, is just as fresh and immediate. 268 State St., SLC, 801-779-4747. EGM

Chunga’s These tacos al pastor are the

real deal. Carved from a big pineapplemarinated hunk, the meat is folded in delicate masa tortillas with chopped pineapple, onion and cilantro. 180 S. 900 West, SLC, 801-328-4421. GL

Frida Bistro Frida is one of the finest

things to happen to Salt Lake dining, ever. This is not your typical tacos/tamales menu—it represents the apex of still too little-known Mexican cuisine, elegant and

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dining guide sophisticated and as complex as French. Plus, there’s a nice margarita menu. 545 W. 700 South, SLC, 801-983-6692. EGM

Lone Star Taqueria Lone Star serves a burrito that’s a meal in itself, whether you choose basic bean and cheese or a special. 2265 E. Fort Union Blvd., SLC, 801-944-2300. GL Luna Blanca Mikel Trapp (owner of

Trio and Fresco) owns this sleek little taqueria at the foot of the canyon and serves untraditional versions of tortilla-wrapped meals—involving quinoa and portobello, as well as chipotle and pork. Plus margaritas. 3158 E. 6200 South, Holladay, 801-944DINING 2014EGL 5862. AWARD

Hall Red Iguana Both locations are a blessing in this City of Salt, which Fame SLM OF

still has mysteriously few good Mexican restaurants. Mole is what you want. 736 W. North Temple, SLC, 801-322-1489; 866 W. South Temple, SLC, 801-214-6050. EGL – M

Rio Grande Café As bustling now as it

was when it was still a train station, this is a pre-Jazz favorite and great for kids, too. Dishes overflow the plate and fill the belly. 270 S. Rio Grande St., SLC, 801-364-3302.

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Mexican food, and Todd Gardiner is here to provide it. Artisan tacos (try the duck confit), inventive guacamole and lots of tequila. 1615. S. Foothill Dr., SLC, 385-2590712; 4670 Holladay Village Plaza (2300 E.) 801-676-9706. EGM

Chanon Thai Café A meal here is

Z’Tejas A link that has loosened its chain and developed its own personality, Z’Tejas serves faithful versions of Tex-Mex, probably as good as you can get it outside the lone star state. 191 S. Rio Grande, SLC, 801456-0450. EGM

East-West Connection Pork and shrimp rolls, curry shrimp and the “Look Luck” beef (beef in a caramel sauce) are popular. 1400 S. Foothill Dr., Ste. 270, SLC, 801-581-1128. EGM

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Market Street Grill SLC’s fave fish

restaurants: Fish is flown in daily and the breakfast is an institution. 48 W. Market Street, SLC, 801-322-4668; 2985 E. 6580 South, SLC, 801-942-8860; 10702 River Front Pkwy., South Jordan, 801302-2262. EG

The Oyster Bar This is the best selection of fresh oysters in town: Belon, Olympia, Malpeque and Snow Creek plus Bluepoints. Crab and shrimp are conscientiously procured. 54 W. Market St., SLC, 801-531-6044; 2985 E. Cottonwood Parkway (6590 South), SLC, 801-942-8870. EGN

like a casual dinner at your best Thai friend’s place. Try curried fish cakes and red-curry prawns with coconut milk and pineapple. 278 E. 900 South, SLC, 801532-1177. L

Ekamai Thai The tiniest Thai restaurant in town is owned by Woot Pangsawan, who provides great curries, to go, eat there or have delivered, plus friendly personal service. 336 W. Broadway, SLC, 801-363-2717 and 1405 E. 2100 South, SLC, 801-9060908. GL Indochine Vietnamese cuisine is underrepresented in Salt Lake’s Thai-ed up dining scene, so a restaurant that offers more than noodles is welcome. Try broken rice dishes, clay pots and pho. 230 S. 1300 East, 801-5820896. EGM

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My Thai My Thai is an unpretentious mom-and-pop

operation—she’s mainly in the kitchen, and he mainly waits tables, but in a lull, she darts out from her stove to ask diners if they like the food. Yes, we do. 1425 S. 300 West, SLC, 801-505-4999. GL

Oh Mai Fast, friendly and hugely flavorful—that

sums up this little banh mi shop that’s taken SLC by storm. Pho is also good and so are full plates, but the banh mi are heaven. 3425 State St., SLC, 801-4676882. EL

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Sapa Sushi Bar & Asian Grill Charming Vietnamese stilt houses surround the courtyard. Sapa’s menu ranges from Thai curries to fusion and hot pots, but the sushi is the best bet. 722 S. State St., SLC, 801-363-7272.

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Sawadee Thai The menu goes far outside the usual

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pad thai and curry. Thai food’s appeal lies in the subtleties of difference achieved with a limited list of ingredients. 754 E. South Temple, SLC, 801-328-8424.

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Thai Garden Paprika-infused pad thai, deepfried duck and fragrant gang gra ree are all excellent choices—but there are 50-plus items on the menu. Be tempted by batter-fried bananas with coconut ice cream. 4410 S. 900 East, SLC, 801-2667899. EGM

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Thai Lotus Curries and noodle dishes hit a pre-

cise procession on the palate—sweet, then sour, savory and hot—plus there are dishes you’ve never tried before and should: bacon and collard greens, red curry with duck, salmon with chili and coconut sauce. 212 E. 500 South, SLC, 801-328-4 401. EGL – M

Thai Siam This restaurant is diminutive, but the flavors are fresh, big and bold. Never expensive, this place is even more of a bargain during lunchtime, when adventurous customers enjoy the $6.95 combination plates, a triple Thai tasting that’s one of the best deals in town. 1435 S. State St., SLC, 801-4743322. GL Tasty Thai Tasty is a family-run spot, absolutely

plain, in and out, but spotless and friendly, and the food is fresh and plentiful. And it’s so close to a walk in the park. 1302 S. 500 East, SLC, 801-467-4070. GL

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Christopher’s The menu is straightforward chilled shellfish and rare steaks, with a few seafood and poultry entrees thrown in for the non-beefeaters. 134 W. Pierpont Ave., SLC, 801-519-8515. EGN

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Utah’s culinary landscape is as diverse and exciting as the state’s terrain, ranging from lofty culinary landmarks to down-home cafés. Check out some of our favorites.

ALAMEXO MEXICAN KITCHEN

268 South State Street Suite #110, SLC (801) 779-4747 alamexo.com

Alamexo provides authentic Mexican cuisine in a spirited atmosphere with top shelf tequilas and warm hospitality all found in downtown Salt Lake City. We feature Niman ranch meats, responsible seafood, and buy from local farmers in season.

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ARISTO’S

224 S. 1300 East, SLC (801) 581-0888 aristosUT.com Aristo’s is simple but elegant, offering a taste of authentic southern Greek Cuisine. Live Bouzouki Music every Thursday night. Serving lunch and dinner Mon - Sat For reservations and information: aristosUT.com

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dining guide Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse This local branch of a national chain has a famously impressive wine list. With more than 100 available by the glass, it has selections that pair well with anything you order. 20 S. 400 West, The Gateway, SLC, 801-355-3704. EGO Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse This Ugly Betty building has inner beauty. Stick with classics like crab cocktail, order the wedge, and ask for your butter-sizzled steak no more than medium, please. Eat dessert, then linger in the cool bar. 275 S. West Temple, SLC, 801363-2000. EGN Spencer’s The quality of the meat and the accuracy of the cooking are what make it great. Beef is aged on the bone, and many cuts are served on the bone—a luxurious change from the usual cuts. 255 S. West Temple, SLC, 801-238-4748. EGN

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Living Cuisine Living food (never

heated over 116 degrees) is an increasingly popular cuisine. Here it is pulled it off with great flair and served with kindness. The raw tacos and pizza are particularly good. 2144 Highland Dr., SLC, 801-486-0332. L

Summer of Rosés Looking at the world through shades of pink The DABC wine stores started blushing last spring, and Salt Lake somms began pushing the pink drink. Copper Onion’s winemeister Jimmy Santangelo features a special list of rosés all season long during his “Summer of Rosé”, a selection of rosé wines to go with the Onion’s warm weather menu. Santangelo’s picks are mostly wines made by the saignée method (leaving the juice on the red skins to pick up their color) with a few made by coloring white wine with red wine. But none of them have the sweetness many Americans associate with what was called “blush” in the ‘80s. All the wines— from France, Italy, Napa and Sonoma—are dry and have the fruit friendliness and moderate alcohol levels that have made them a summertime favorite around the world. Here’s the list; these are all special order, meaning the DABC in its wisdom has declined to put them on the shelves. Jean Luc Colombo “Cape Bleue” Rosé, Provence, France, 2013. A pale pink blend of syrah and mourvedre. Copain “Tous Ensemble” Rosé, Anderson Valley, 2013. Made from 100 percent pinot noir. St. Supéry Estate, Napa Valley, 2013. A melange of merlot, cabernet sauvignon, malbec, cabernet franc and–oddly?–petit verdot. Binomio “Cerasuolo” d’Abruzzo Superiore, Italy. Made from 100 percent montepulciano, resulting in a pomegranate (cerasuolo) color. Matthiasson, Napa Valley Rose, 2013. Grenache, syrah and mourvedre from single vineyards in Carneros and Napa. Bedrock “Ode to Lulu” Ancient Vine, Sonoma Valley Rosé, 2013. From Morgan Peterson (Ravenswood’s Joel Peterson’s son), a mix of carignane, mourvedre and grenache. Next door at Copper Commons, they’ll be serving rosé from the keg, like they do their red and white. 111 E. Broadway, SLC, 801-355-3282

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Sage’s Café Totally vegan and mostly

organic food, emphasizing fresh vegetables, herbs and soy. Macadamia-creamed carrot butter crostini is a tempting starter; follow with a wok dish with cashew-coconut curry. 900 S. 234 West, SLC, 801-3223790. EL – M

Vertical Diner Chef Ian Brandt, of Sage’s Café and Cali’s Grocery, owns Vertical Diner’s animal-free menu of burgers, sandwiches and breakfasts. Plus organic wines and coffees. 2290 S. West Temple, SLC, 801484-8378. EGL

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Apex Enjoy fine dining at the top of the

world. Apex at Montage exudes luxury in the most understated and comfortable way. No need to tux up to experience pampered service; the assumption is you’re here to relax and that means not having to worry about a thing. The classy lack of pretension extends to the menu—no unpronounceables, nothing scary or even too daring—just top of the line everything. Quality speaks for itself. 9100 Marsac Ave., Park City, 435-604-1300. EGN

350 Main The kitchen has taken on new life under a new chef, Carl Fiessinger breathes some Southern soul into the menu, but stays within the New West framework, so longtimers will be happy and every tummy satisfied. 350 Main St., Park City, 435-649-3140. EGN

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Avenues ProPer restAurAnt & Publick House 376 8th ave, suite C, SLC (385) 227-8628 avenuesproper.com

“The Proper” derives its name from our location in the heart of one of Salt Lake City’s oldest neighborhoods. Our from-scratch pub fare emphasizes the use of local and regional ingredients, with a focus on dishes that either incorporate beer into the cooking process or pair well with our selection of house brews. In utilizing quality ingredients and classic techniques, we take traditional pub fare influences and elevate them to create our handcrafted meals. The Proper houses Utah’s smallest craft brewery, producing small-batch artisan beers with a focus on quality and creativity. We are open Tuesday-Sunday for lunch and dinner, and are now serving Sunday brunch. Lunch | Dinner | Brunch | Late Night Patio Now Open!

The Bayou

645 S. State Street, SLC (801) 961-8400 utahbayou.com

“The beer connoisseur’s paradise” – GQ Magazine Sept. 2009 A 2009 “Best Bars in America” Winner – Esquire.com A “100 best places to drink beer in America” Winner – Imbibe Magazine Enjoy our award winning Cajun and creole influenced food, paired with a 200 + beer list

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BOMBAY HOUSE CUISINE OF INDIA

2731 E. Parley’s Way, SLC · 801-581-0222 7726 Campus View Dr., #120, WJ · 801-282-0777 463 North University Ave, Provo · 801-373-6677 bombayhouse.com

Eating at Bombay House is about much more than just food. It is a complete cultural submersion for all five of your senses. The rich aroma of exotic spices; the rhythms and songs of an ancient culture; warm, intimate lighting; vibrant murals portraying scenes from Indian life and legend; oven-toasted flat bread warming your fingers as you tear a piece to eat; the exquisite flavor of sumptuous food cooked to perfection and served with the same care and courtesy extended to family and guests of the highest honor. Bombay House is about providing you with a truly exceptional experience.

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dining guide The Farm at Canyons Food is at the

forefront of the re-imagined Canyons, and the Farm is the flagship featuring sustainably raised and produced handmade food. Resort Village, Sundial Building, North of the Cabriolet. 435-615-4828.

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Glitretind The service is polished, and the

menu is as fun or as refined or as inventive chef Zane Holmquist’s mood. The appeal resonates with the jet set and local diners. The wine list is exceptional. But so is the burger. 7700 Stein Way, Deer Valley, 435-6456455. EGO

Goldener Hirsch A jazzed up Alpine

theme—elk carpaccio with pickled shallots, foie gras with cherry-prune compote and wiener schnitzel with caraway-spiked carrot strings. 7570 Royal St. East, Park City, 435649-7770. EGO DINING

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erichten lends his name to this restaurant at the St. Regis. The food is terrific, the wine cellar’s inventory is deep, Hall OF and it’s not as expensive as the view from the Fame SLM leads you to expect. 2300 Deer Valley patio Drive East, Park City, 435-940-5760. EGO

Mariposa at Deer Valley (Open

J&G’s ceremonial sabering of a bottle of bubbles is the correct way to start a mountain evening.

straight outta Dodge City; the menu is an all-American blend of regional cooking styles. Corn bisque with grilled shrimp was a creamy golden wonder. Yes, blackbottom banana cream pie is still on the menu. 650 W. 100 South, Heber, 435-6542133. EGM – N

Talisker On Main The food is locally

sourced and classically wonderful, with only a little moderno foam spritz to prove we’re in the 21st century. Famous for its chef’s tasting menu, which ranges from adventurous to classic. 900 Main St., Park City, 435-6585479. EGO

Viking Yurt (Open seasonally) Arrive by sleigh and settle in for a luxurious five-course meal. Reservations and punctuality a must. Park City Mountain Resort, 435-615-9878.

at Silver. Black kale caesar is an amazing salad, the alternate greens adding an earthy chew to balance the heavy dressing and the rabbit and black garlic pappardelle is terrific. Silver is a fun place to shed the hiking boots and break out your Blahniks. 508 Main St., Park City, 435-940-1000.

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Silver Star Cafe Comfort food

reminiscent of the Alps, but serves fine American cuisine. Don’t miss the awardwinning brunch. 1235 Warm Springs Rd., Midway, 435-654-1400. EGN

Eating Establishment Claiming to be the oldest, this restaurant is one of Park City’s most versatile. On weekend mornings, locals line up for breakfasts. 317 Main St., Park City, 435-649-8284. M Gateway Grille Folks love the breakfasts,

but you’re missing out if you don’t try the pork chop, roasted until pale pink, its rich pigginess set off by a port and apple sauce. 215 S. Main St., Kamas, 435-783-2867. EGL – M

High West Distillery Order a flight

of whiskey and taste the difference aging makes, but be sure to order plenty of food to see how magically the whiskey matches the fare. The chef takes the amber current theme throughout the food. 703 Park Ave., Park City, 435-649-8300. EGML

Royal Street Café (Open seasonally)

Jupiter Bowl Upscale for a bowling alley,

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Simon’s Grill at the Homestead The

décor is formal, the fare is hearty but refined— salmon in a morel cream, or pearl onion fritters dusted with coarse salt. 700 N. Homestead Dr., Midway, 888-327-7220. EGN

Zermatt Resort The charming, Swiss-

Blind Dog Grill The kitchen offers

with an upscale sensibility and original touches, like shrimp and grits with chipotle or Niman Ranch pork Hall OF cutlets with spaetzle. Morning meals are Fame SLM also tops, and the location is spectacular. 1825 Three Kings Dr., Park City, 435-6581570. EGM

Don’t miss the lobster chowder, but note the novelties, too: In a new take on the classic

Sammy’s Bistro Down-to-earth food in a comfortable setting—sounds simple, but if so, why aren’t there more Sammy’s in our world? Try the bacon-grilled shrimp or a chicken bowl with your brew. 1890 Bonanza Dr., Park City, 435-214-7570. EGL – M

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The Blue Boar Inn The restaurant is

Silver Main Street got its glitter back

Road Island Diner An authentic 1930s diner refitted to serve 21st-century customers. The menu features old-fashioned favorites for breakfast, lunch and dinner. 981 W. Weber Canyon Rd., Oakley, 435-783-3466. GL

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Mustang A duck chile relleno arrives in

a maelstrom of queso and ranchero sauce. Braised lamb shank and lobster with cheese enchiladas share the menu with seasonal entrées. 890 Main St., Park City, 435-6583975. EGO

games and The Lift Grill & Lounge. In Newpark. 1090 Center Dr., Park City, 435- 6582695. EGM

Spin Café House-made gelato is the big star at this family-owned café, but the food is worth your time. Try the pulled pork, the salmon BLT or the sirloin. 220 N. Main St., Heber City, 435-654-0251. EGL – M

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Snake Creek Grill The setting is

imaginative selections even though the dark wood and cozy ambience look like an old gentlemen’s club. Don’t miss the Dreamloaf, served with Yukon gold mashed potatoes. 1251 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-655-0800. EGM – N

seasonally) Try the tasting menu for an overview of the kitchen’s talent. It’s white tablecloth, but nothing is formal. 7600 Royal St., Park City, 435-645-6715.

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lettuce wedge salad, Royal Street’s version adds baby beets, glazed walnuts and pear tomatoes. 7600 Royal Street, Silver Lake Village, Deer Valley Resort, Park City, 435645-6724. EGM

but still with something for everyone in the family to love. Besides pins, there are video

themed resort is big on buffets—seafood, Italian and brunch. 784 W. Resort Dr., Midway, 866-643-2015. EGM – N

bakeries & cafés

Park City Coffee Roasters The town’s fave house-roasted coffee and housemade pastries make this one of the best energy stops in town. 1680 W. Ute Blvd., Park City, 435-647-9097. GL Wasatch Bagel Café Not just bagels, but bagels as buns, enfolding a sustaining layering of sandwich fillings like egg and bacon. 1300 Snow Creek Dr., Park City, 435645-7778. GL Windy Ridge Bakery & Café One of

Park City’s most popular noshing spots— especially on Taco Tuesdays. The bakery behind turns out desserts and pastries for Bill White’s restaurants as well as take-home entrees. 1250 Iron Horse Dr., Park City, 435647-0880. EGL – M

Bar Grub & Brewpubs

Burgers & Bourbon Housoed in the luxurious Montage, this casual restaurant presents the most deluxe versions of America’s favorite food. The burgers are stupendous, there’s a great list of bourbons to back them, and if you’re not a bourbon imbiber, have one of the majorly good milkshakes. 9100 Marsac Avenue, Park City, 435-604-1300. Red Rock Junction The house-brewed beers—honey wheat, amber ale or oatmeal

BRIO TUSCAN GRILLE

FASHION PLACE MALL · (801) 262-6500 6173 South State Street, Murray CITY CREEK CENTER · (801) 359-4401 80 South Regent Street, SLC BrioItalian.com

BRIO!, (meaning “lively” or “full of life”) is a casual restaurant serving authentic, northern Italian food. BRIO brings the pleasure of the Tuscan country villa to Salt Lake City. Gather around our table and enjoy premium quality steaks, chops, seafood and made-to-order pastas. At BRIO our motto is fashioned after the Tuscan philosophy- “TO EAT WELL, IS TO LIVE WELL.” Buon Appetito! Weekend Brunch · Light Menu With Entrees 550 Calories or Less Full Bar Available With Extensive Wine List · Outdoor Terrace Dining Reservations · Catering To-Go · Online Ordering · Private Dining for Groups

CAFÉ TRIO

680 S. 900 East (801) 533-TRIO (8746) 6405 S. 3000 East (801) 944-TRIO (8746) www.triodining.com Voted Reader’s Choice Best Lunch & Best Neighborhood Restaurant —Salt Lake Magazine 2010 Voted Best Patios —City Weekly Magazine 2010 Café Trio serves simple, fresh italian food in a contemporary setting. Enjoy delicious pizzas, pastas, entrees and more while indulging in a decadent dessert or creative cocktail on our award winning patios. Our Cottonwood location boasts more than 1,500 square feet of private dining space; the perfect location for your next business meeting or special event! Saturday and Sunday Brunch at both locations. Lunch: Mon-Fri - Dinner: Sun-Sat - Brunch: Sat-Sun

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Caffé NiChe

779 East 300 South (801) 433-3380 caffeniche.com

Experience our summer menu and hand-crafted cocktails. Niche is a true neighborhood eatery serving breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner. Niche emphasizes supporting local farms for the best ingredients around. Our preparation is simple, timeless and healthful, highlighting the essence of the ingredients.

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dining guide stout, to name a few—complement a menu of burgers, brick-oven pizzas and rotisserie chicken. 1640 W. Redstone Center Dr., Ste. 105, Park City, 435-575-0295. EGM

Squatters Roadhouse Everyone loves

the bourbon burger, and Salt Lake Brewers Co-op brews are available by the bottle and on the state-of-the-art tap system. Open for breakfast daily. 1900 Park Ave., Park City, 435-649-9868. EGM

Wasatch Brewpub This was the first brewpub in Utah, and it serves beer- and family-friendly fare without a hefty price tag. Everyone loves Polygamy Porter, and the pool tables upstairs are equally popular. 250 Main St., Park City, 435-649-0900. EGL – M

Continental & European

Adolph’s Park City locals believe the steak sandwich is the best in town. You’ll also find classics like wiener schnitzel, rack of lamb and steak Diane. 1500 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-649-7177. EGO

Bistro 412 The coziness and the low wine

markups make you want to sit and sip. Mainstays here are classic French favorites like beef bourguignon. 412 Main St., Park City, 435-649-8211. EGM

Café Terigo This charming café is the

spot for a leisurely meal. Chicken and bacon tossed with mixed greens and grilled veggies on focaccia are café-goers’ favorites. 424 Main St., Park City, 435-645-9555. EGM

Italian & Pizza

Belly Dancing A double entendre evening at Cedars of Lebanon Let me be upfront: I reviewed Cedars of Lebanon several times years ago and though my food was great—and I love Mediterranean food—the service was so slow and terrible that I haven’t been back since. But there’s only one thing you can count on in the restaurant business and that’s change, so leaving a show at Modern West gallery across the street, we decided to give Cedars another go. Just our luck: It was a Friday night and the place was packed, because Cedars of Lebanon features belly dancing on the weekends. Cedars calls its food Mediterranean—it serves Lebanese (kaftan, kibbeh, kebabs), Moroccan (tagines, bistilla, couscous), and a little Greek, though all the Middle Eastern culinary traditions overlap. This is the only cuisine with a culturally relevant show to accompany it, and Cedars of Lebanon is one of the few places in Salt Lake City to feature it. Too bad, because belly dancing is fun to watch and to me just underscores the oftenneglected notion that dining out is supposed to be fun. The whole concept of mezzes, a platter of tastes to nibble on for a snack or a meal, is food as entertainment, and we let this restaurant’s versions of hummus, baba ghanouj, tabbouleh, plus olives and feta cheese please our bellies while the dancer shimmied hers. For the full experience, eat in the casbah room and enjoy an herbal hookah after the meal. If you have a party of 25 guests or more, Cedars can even provide a limousine, so you can really play sheik for the night. 152 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-364-4096

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Cisero’s High altitude exercise calls for calories to match. The private club features live music and DJs. 306 Main St., Park City, 435-649-5044. EGM Fuego Off the beaten Main Street track,

this pizzeria is a family-friendly solution to a ski-hungry evening. Pastas, paninis and woodfired pizzas are edgy, but they’re good. 2001 Sidewinder Dr., Park City, 435- 645-8646. EGM

Ghidotti’s Ghidotti’s evokes Little Italy more than Italy, and the food follows suit— think spaghetti and meatballs, lasagna and rigatoni Bolognese. Try the chicken soup. 6030 N. Market St., Park City, 435-658-0669. EGM – N Grappa Dishes like osso buco and grape salad with gorgonzola, roasted walnuts and Champagne vinaigrette are sensational, and the wine list features hard-to-find Italian wines as well as flights, including sparkling. 151 Main St., Park City, 435-645-0636. EO

Japanese/pan-asian

Sushi Blue Find the yin and yang of Asian-American flavors in Bill White’s sushi,

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DEL MAR AL LAGO

310 West Bugatti Dr., SLC (801) 467-2890 delmarallago.com

Escape to Del Mar al Lago. Our Peruvian cebicheria serves classic Peruvian cuisine, hand-crafted cocktails–try our Pisco Sour–and amazing homemade desserts. Reservations highly recommended.

Franck’s

6263 South Holladay Blvd, SLC 801-274-6264 francksfood.com A hidden gem in Holladay where exquisite cuisine takes center stage in an intimate and whimsical atmosphere. This cozy 50-seat restaurant exudes elegance and charm. French at heart, with a contemporary and original twist, the cuisine is guaranteed to please the most discriminating palate. The flavorful, award winning fare is extremely approachable,yet bears subtle nuances of incredible depth and a complexity of flavors. The gracious, world class service is part of the allure and appeal of a dining experience you are sure to enjoy.

FRESCO ITALIAN CAFÉ 1513 South 1500 East (801) 486-1300 frescoitaliancafe.com

A secluded neighborhood treasure attached to an independent bookstore, Fresco is a local favorite featuring fresh, hand-crafted Italian specialties, house made pastas, and an exceptional wine list. Fresco also offers outdoor dining at its best on beautiful vine covered patio. Serving dinner nightly.

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dining guide excellent Korean tacos, crab sliders and other Amer-Asian food fusions, including the best hot dog in the state, topped with bacon and house-made kimchi. 1571 W. Redstone Center Dr. Ste. 140, Park City, 435-575-4272. EGM – N

Wahso Restaurateur Bill White is known for his eye-popping eateries. Wahso is his crown jewel, done up with lanterns and silks like a 1930s noir set. Don’t miss the jasmine tea-smoked duck. This is what “fusion” promised. 577 Main St., Park City, 435-615-0300. EGO

Sundae Season It’s the time of year for ice cream and the Bluebird’s almost 100-year-old soda fountain is where to get it.

Mexican & Southwestern

Baja Cantina The T.J. Taxi is a flour tortilla stuffed with chicken, sour cream, tomatoes, onions, cheddar-jack cheese and guacamole. Park City Resort Center, 1284 Lowell Ave., Park City, 435-649-2252. EGM Billy Blanco’s Motor City Mexican The

subtitle is “burger and taco garange” but garage is the notable word. This is a theme restaurant that hearkens back to the seventies heyday of such places—lots of cars and motorcycles on display, oil cans to hold the flatware, and a 50seat bar made our of toolboxes. If you’ve ever dreamed of eating in a garage, you’ll be thrilled. 8208 Gorgoza Pines Rd., Park City, 435-575-0846

Chimayo One of Bill White’s prettiest

places, this restaurant is reminiscent of Santa Fe, but the food is pure Park City. Margaritas are good, and the avocado/shrimp appetizer combines guacamole and ceviche flavors in a genius dish. 368 Main St., Park City, 435-6496222. EGO

El Chubasco Regulars storm this restau-

rant for south-of-the-border eats. Burritos fly through the kitchen like chiles too hot to handle—proving consistency matters. 1890 Bonanza Dr., Park City, 435-645-9114. EGL – M

Tarahumara Some of the best Mexican

food in the state can be found in this familyowned cafe in Midway. Don’t be fooled by the bland exterior; inside you’ll find a full-fledged cantina and an adjoining family restaurant with a soulful salsa bar. 380 E. Main St., Midway, 435-654-34654.EGM – N

Middle eastern & greek

Reef’s Lamb chops are tender, falafel is

crunchy, and the prices fall between fast food and fine dining. It’s a den of home cooking, if your home is east of the Mediterranean. 710 Main St., Park City, 435-658-0323. EGM

Southeast asian

Shabu Cool new digs, friendly service and fun food make Shabu one of PC’s popular spots: make reservations. A stylish bar with prize-winning mixologists adds to the

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freestyle feel. 442 Main St., Park City, 435645-7253. EGM – N

Shabu Shabu House The second shabu-

style eatery in PC is less grand than the first but offers max flavor from quality ingredients. 1612 W. Ute Blvd., Park City, 658-435-5829. EGLL

Taste of Saigon Flavor is the focus here,

with the degree of heat in your control. Try the specials such as lemongrass beef and rice noodle soup. 580 Main St., Park City, 435-6470688. EM

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Butcher’s Chop House & Bar The

draws are prime rib, New York strip and pork chops—and the ladies’ night specials in the popular bar downstairs. 751 Main St., Park City, 435-647-0040. EGN

Grub Steak Live country music, fresh

salmon, lamb and chicken, and a mammoth salad bar. Order bread pudding whether you think you want it or not. You will. 2200 Sidewinder Dr., Prospector Square, Park City. 435-649-8060. EGN

Prime Steak House Prime’s recipe for

success is simple: Buy quality ingredients and insist on impeccable service. Enjoy the piano bar, and save room for molten chocolate cake. 804 Main St., Park City, 435-6559739. EGN

American Casual

The Bluebird The ornate soda fountain, tile floors and mahogany tables are the setting for daily specials and soups, milkshakes and sundaes. 19 N. Main St., Logan, 435-752-3155. M Prairie Schooner Tables are covered wagons around a diorama featuring coyotes, cougars and cowboys—corny, but fun. The menu is standard—but kids love it. 445 Park Blvd., Ogden, 801-621-5511. EGM Union Grill The cross-over cooking offers

sandwiches, seafood and pastas with American, Greek, Italian or Mexican spices. Union Station, 2501 Wall Ave., Ogden, 801-621-2830.

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Bar Grub & Brewpubs

Beehive Grill An indirect offshoot of

Moab Brewery, the Grill focuses as much on house-brewed root beer as alcoholic suds, but the generally hefty food suits either. 255 S. Main St., Logan, 435-753-2600. EGL

Roosters Choose from specialty pizzas, baked sea scallops and herb-crusted lamb at this fixture on the historic block. 253 25th St., Ogden, 801-627-6171. EGM

BURGERS, SANDWICHES, DELIs

Caffe Ibis Exchange news, enjoy sand-

north Salt lake & beyond

wiches and salads, and linger over a cuppa conscientiously grown coffee. 52 Federal Ave., Logan, 435-753-4777. GL

American Fine Dining

Chinese

served on ciabatta bread to the evening’s California Ahi Stack, a tall cylinder of tuna, crab, avocado, rice and mango salsa. 258 25th St., Ogden, 801-394-1595. EGLL

and gold dragons. Chefs recruited from San Francisco crank out a huge menu; desserts are noteworthy. Call ahead. 348 E. 900 North, Bountiful, 801-298-2406. EGM

Bistro 258 Everything from burgers

The Huntington Room at Earl’s Lodge Ski-day sustenance and fireside dinner for the après-ski set. In summer, dine at the top of the mountain. 3925 E. Snowbasin Rd., Huntsville, 888-437-547. EGLL DINING

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Hearth This is the restaurant that

used to be Jasoh!–the quirky upstairs restaurant which has been introducing Ogdenites to fine flavors for years. Gone is Hall OF the awkward concept of two separate concepts Fame SLM one roof. Now, as our server rejoiced (in under a bit of oversharing), he doesn’t have to wear a tie to work to learn about wine. Hearth’s centerpiece is a wood-fired oven, and much of the menu is inspired by that–the pizzas, the flatbreads and the hearth breads, all made with the same basic dough and baked in the wood oven but shaped in different thicknesses with varying textures. There were several elk dishes on the menu and some yak. Try it. 195 Historic 25th St. Ste. 6 (2nd Floor), Ogden, 801-399-0088 EGN

Mandarin The rooms are filled with red

italian and pizza

The Italian Place A great sandwich is

about proportion, not quantity, and these balance filling and bread, toasted until the meld is complete. 48 Federal Ave., Logan, 435-753-2584. GL

Marcello’s Eat spaghetti and meatballs without wine—this is truly Utah-style Italian food. 375 N. Main St., Bountiful. 801-298-7801. GL –M

Slackwater Pizza The pies here are as good as any food in Ogden. Selection ranges from traditional to Thai (try it), and there’s a good selection of wine and beer. 1895 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801-3990637. EGM Zucca Trattoria Chef-owner Elio Scanu’s menu features regional Italian dishes— check out the specials. But that’s only part of Zucca—there is also a great Italian market and deli, selling salumi and cheese and

GLITRETIND RESTAURANT Stein Eriksen Lodge Deer Valley 7700 Stein Way, Park City (435) 645-6455 steinlodge.com/dining

Savor The Summer at Steins Enjoy the summer at Utah’s only Forbes Five-Star Hotel & Spa. Dine on one of our decks and experience breathtaking views and fresh mountain air. Executive Chef Zane Holmquist has prepared a summer menu with delicious appetizers and entrees for every palate. Allow the Steins professional staff to help arrange for your wedding or event for 12 to 400. Professional party planners standing by to fine-tune your special event today.

GOLDENER HIRSCH INN Park City (800) 252-3373 (435) 649-7770 GoldenerHirschInn.com

RATED TOP RESTAURANT IN PARK CITY AAA 4-Diamond Award Wine Spectator Award since 1995. Serving Euro-American Cuisine featuring the renowned Wiener Schnitzel, Apple Strudel, and Four-Cheese Fondue Reservations Suggested.

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GRACIES

326 South West Temple, SLC 801-819-7565 www.graciesslc.com

Salt Lake’s first and only “Gastropub” specializing in food a step above the more basic “pub-grub”. Serving lunch and dinner daily and an amazing brunch every Saturday and Sunday. At Gracie’s our bar is fully stocked with an extensive collection of beer, top shelve liquors, and a comprehensive wine selection. Come settle in and enjoy our award winning patio.

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Maddox Ranch House Angus

beef steaks, bison chicken fried steak and burgers have made this an institution for more than 50 years. Eat in, drive up or take home. 1900 S. Highway 89, Perry, 435-7238545. GL – M

Owl Hours The historic Owl Bar at Sundance comes into its own in the summer. Live music starts at 9:30 on weekends. Have supper at the Foundry, then stroll next door.

Provo & Central Utah American Fine Dining DINING

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Communal Food is focused on

the familiar with chef’s flair—like braised pork shoulder crusted in panko. Attention to detail makes this one of Hall OF Utah’s best. 100 N. University Ave., Provo, Fame SLM EGM – N 801-373-8000.

The Tree Room The resort’s flagship

is known for its seasonal, straightforward menu and memorable decor, including Robert Redford’s kachina collection. Try the wild game—spice-rubbed quail and buffalo tenderloin. Highway 92, Sundance Resort, Provo Canyon, 801-223-4200. EGN – O

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The Black Sheep This is probably

the most “American” restaurant in town—the cuisine here is based on the Native American dishes Chef Mark Mason enHall OF joyed in his youth. But the fundamentals—like Fame SLM fry bread and the “three sisters” combo Navajo of squash, corn and beans—have been given a beautiful urban polish by this experienced chef. Don’t miss the cactus pear margarita. 19 N. University Ave, Provo, 801-607-2485.EGM – N

The Foundry Grill The café in Sundance

Resort serves comfort food with western style—sandwiches, spit-roasted chickens and steaks. Sunday brunch is a mammoth buffet. Sundance Resort, Provo, 801-223-4220. EGM

Station 22 Ever-hipper Provo is home to

some cutting-edge food now that the cutting edge has a folksy, musical saw kind of style. Station 22 is a perfect example of the Utah roots trend—a charming, funky interior, a great soundtrack and a menu with a slight Southern twang. Try the fried chicken sandwich with red cabbage on ciabatta. 22 W. Center St., Provo, 801-607-1803. EGL – M

Indian

Bombay House Salt Lake’s biryani mainstay has several restaurant sisters worthy

to call family. 463 N. University Ave., Provo, 801-373-6677; 7726 Campus View Dr., West Jordan, 801-282-0777; 2731 E. Parley’s Way, SLC, 801-581-0222. EGM – N

Italian/pizza DINING

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Pizzeria 712 The pizza menu

reaches heights of quality that fancier restaurants only fantasize about. Not only are the blister-crusted pizHall OF zas the epitome of their genre, but braised Fame SLM ribs, local mushrooms and arugula on short ciabatta are equally stellar. 320 S. State St., Orem, 801-623-6712. EGM

Mexican DINING

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humble burrito place with highflown belief in sustainably raised meats, locally-sourced vegetables and comHall OF munity support. Result: everything you’d Fame SLMwant in a burrito joint, except a beer. ever 1796 N. 950 West, Provo, 801-805-1870. GL

Tortilla Bar Chef-owner Sam Oteo presents tacos in a whole new and lovely way—his tiny Tortilla Bar kitchen uses local, sustainable healthful ingredients and puts them together with a sophisticated but still earthily Mexican touch. Beets on a tortilla? Believe it. 1454 S. State Street, Orem, 385-259-2014. GL

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HEARTH ON 25TH

195 Historic 25th Street, 2nd Floor, Ogden (801) 399-0088 hearth25.com RESTAURANT – Offering scratch seasonal dishes, with focus on live fire cooking, our HEARTH is the ‘heart’ of our kitchen. We support local farms and ranches by incorporating their most beautiful products into our menu to offer a dining experience that is unrivaled in the area. LOUNGE – Our Title 32B Lounge, named after Utah’s post-prohibition liquor law, features handcrafted cocktails based on classic templates from a scratch bar, with hand cut ice and premium spirits. PANTRY – Our pantry retails the finest ingredients from our scratch kitchen and abroad, such as our fresh and dried house made pasta, and over forty flavors of the freshest extra virgin olive oils and aged balsamic vinegar, complete with a tasting bar! Utah’s Winner - Top 50 Restaurants in the U.S. Worth Traveling For – Trip Advisor

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J&G GRILL

The St. Regis Deer Valley 2300 Deer Valley Drive East, Park City (435) 940-5760 jggrillparkcity.com J&G Grill offers a tantalizing selection of chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s greatest recipes including refreshing salads, fine locally-raised meats, and the freshest seafood flown in from both coasts. Come enjoy Seasonal Tasting Menus and favorites like Maine Lobster, Grilled Clark’s Farm Lamb Chops, Black Truffle Pizza and our famous Mussels Mariniere. Outdoor dining slope-side, intriguing house-made cocktails and the largest wine collection in Utah. Easy access via the St. Regis Funicular! Breakfast, lunch, après, dinner and private events. Rated the number one restaurant in Park City – Trip Advisor

naked fish JAPANESE BISTRO

NAKED FISH JAPANESE BISTRO 67 W. 100 South, SLC (801) 595-8888 nakedfishbistro.com

BEST JAPANESE RESTAURANT 2010, 2012-2014 — Salt Lake magazine BEST OF STATE AND BEST OF THE BEST 2012, FINE DINING - JAPANESE We are proud to be Utah’s first sustainable sushi restaurant. It is our goal is to provide both inspired and environmentally responsible meals. We are dedicated to using sustainable seafood and high quality ingredients that emphasize peak freshness and natural flavors.

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Ginger’s Garden Cafe Tucked inside Dr. Christopher’s Herb Shop, Ginger’s serves truly garden-fresh, bright-flavored, mostly vegetarian dishes. 188. S. Main St., Springville, 801-489-4500. GL

Moab & Southeast Utah American dining

Café Diablo (Open seasonally) This café of-

fers buzz-worthy dishes like rattlesnake cakes and fancy tamales. Save room for dessert. 599 DINING 2014 W. Main St., Torrey, 435-425-3070. EGN AWARD

Hall Hell’s Backbone Grill Owners Blake Spalding and Jen Castle Fame SLM OF

set the bar for local, organic food in Utah. Now the cafe has gained national fame. They garden, forage, raise chickens and bees, and offer breakfasts, dinners and even picnic lunches. 20 N. Highway 12, Boulder, 435-335-7464. EGM – N

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Capitol Reef Inn & Café This family

Dining classic

Tuscany

New and old meet gracefully on the patio Like La Caille, Tuscany trails remnants of its former glory now preserved as kitsch: Faux vines crawl over the ceiling and walls of the faux farmhouse. The dining rooms are romantically dim; the heavy LED-lit menus are helpful, if a little weird. Still, the place retains its charm, even if some of it is more corny than cutting edge. There are parts of the menu, too, that never change—like the ginormous double pork chop, a massive amount of meat, but cooked to petal-pink and offset by balsamic-braised onions which provide the sweet touch so pleasant with pork. At the other end of the meal, the gargantuan piece of chocolate cake could easily serve four people. But some dishes are more to today’s taste, lighter, but distinctively Italian in their layers of intense flavors. A recent special of house made pasta mingled with roasted chicken and vegetables in a brown chicken jus was terrific. Lamb chops come with faro and beets instead of potatoes. Caesar salad had plenty of flavor punch from garlic and anchovies, but was made with a vinaigrette instead of the traditional, heavy egg-based dressing. We were disappointed that Prosecco wasn’t available by the bottle; surely that’s a missed opportunity in these bubble-obsessed times, but the wine list is fine, if a little expensive. But the real treasure of Tuscany is its patio, one of the prettiest in a state filled with beautiful al fresco tables. Full of romantic nooks and crannies, shaded by big trees and nearby mountains, lingering over a plate of carpaccio in the fresh air here captures the spirit of Italian dining. 2832 E. 6200 South, SLC, 801-277-9919

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spot strives for a natural and tasty menu— and dishes like fresh trout and cornmeal pancakes achieve it. Be sure to look at the great rock collection and the stone kiva. 360 W. Main St., Torrey, 435-425-3271. EGL – M

Eklectic Café This is what you hope Moab will be like—vestigially idealistic, eccentric and unique. Linger on the patio with your banana pancakes, then shop the bric-a-brac inside. 352 N. Main St., Moab, 435-259-6896. GL Sunglow Family Restaurant This pit

stop is famous for its pinto bean and pickle pies. Yes, we said pickle. 91 E. Main St., Bicknell, 435-425-3701. GL – M

Bar Grub & Brewpubs

Moab Brewery A beloved watering hole for river-runners, slick-rock bikers, red-rock hikers and everyone who needs a bite and a beer, which is nearly everyone in Moab. Some beer is brewed on-site. 686 Main St., Moab, 435-259-6333. EGM

St. George & Southwest Utah American Fine Dining

Painted Pony The kitchen blends culinary trends with standards— sage-smoked quail on mushroom risotto. Even “surf and turf” has a twist—tenHall OF derloin Fame tataki with chile-dusted scallops. 2 W.SLM St. George Blvd., Ste. 22, St. George, 435634-1700. EGN DINING

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Spotted Dog Café Relax, have some vino and enjoy your achiote-braised lamb shank with mint mashed potatoes on top of rosemary spaghetti squash. 428 Zion Park Blvd., Springdale, 435-772-0700. EGN

SIMPLY SUSHI

200 West 400 South SLC • (801) 746-4445 7117 South Redwood Rd West Jordan • (801) 676-7008 simplysushi.us

Simply Sushi offers some of the very best and most affordable sushi in the Salt Lake area. We have two great locations with plenty of free parking at both locations. We have a nice selection of beer and Saki and are open for lunch and dinner seven days a week. Check us out! You’ll be happy you did. Take-out orders are available.

Stephen’S

DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Salt Lake City 110 West 600 South, SLC (801) 410-4383 StephensSLC.com

A Restaurant in a Hotel. Not a Hotel Restaurant. Stephen’s is a casual restaurant featuring southwest and regional cuisines using the freshest ingredients available. Stephen’s breakfast menu utilizes cage free brown eggs, applewood smoked bacon, locally and housemade breads and pastries. Lunch menu has everything from soup & salads to juicy burgers & lobster mac-n-cheese. Dinner selections include for starters jumbo coconut shrimp, locally sourced grass fed beef, Morgan Valley Lamb, free range chicken, citrus chipotle glazed salmon and a rosemary-guajillo crusted ribeye steak.

TAKASHI

18 W. Market Street, SLC (801) 519-9595

Best Restaurant, Best Japanese, and Best Sushi — Salt Lake magazine Dining Awards Pushing the envelope of contemporary Japanese cuisine, Takashi presents unrivaled sushi, sashimi, hot entrees and small plates in a memorable downtown setting. Premium sake, wine, imported beer and signature cocktails. Lunch Monday through Friday Dinner Monday through Saturday

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Oscar’s Café Blueberry pancakes, fresh eggs, crisp potatoes and thick bacon. We love breakfast, though Oscar’s serves equally satisfying meals at other times of day. 948 Zion Park Blvd., Springdale, 435772-3232. GL Mom’s Café Mom’s has fed travel-

ers on blue plate standards since 1928. This is the place to try a Utah “scone” with “honey butter.” 10 E. Main St., Salina, 435-529-3921. GL

A Strong Start Fortify yourself here for a shopping trip through St. Georges’s Downtown Farmers Market at Ancester Square.

Red Rock Grill at Zion Lodge Try eating here on the terrace—melting-pot American dishes like smoked trout salad with prickly pear vinaigrette. And you can’t beat the red rock ambience. Zion National Park, 435-772-7700. EGL – M Whiptail Grill Tucked into an erstwhile gas station, the kitchen is little, but the flavors are big—a goat cheese-stuffed chile relleno crusted in Panko and the chocolate-chile creme brulee. 445 Zion Park Blvd., Springdale, 435-772-0283. EGL – M

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bets. But to truly experience Xetava, dine under the stars in eco-conscious Kayenta. 815 Coyote Gulch Court, Ivins, 435-6560165. EGM

Bakeries & Cafés

25 Main Café and Cake Parlor With

its hip graphic design, ever-so-cool servers and a loyal cupcake following, this simple sandwich spot could be at home in Soho, but it’s in St. George. 25 N. Main St., St. George, 435-628-7110. GL

Mexican

The Bit and Spur The menu stars Southwestern cuisine—ribs, beef and chicken—as well as chili verde. A longtime Zion favorite; there’s almost always a wait here, but it’s almost always a pleasant one with a view and a brew in hand. 1212 Zion Park Blvd., Springdale, 435-7723498. EGM

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Taqueria 27

1615 South Foothill Drive Suite G Salt Lake City • (385) 259-0712 4670 Holladay Village Plaza Suite 108 Holladay • (801) 676-9706 taqueria27.com Fancy tacos and fine tequilas served seven days a week in a warm, modern atmosphere. Brunch Menu Saturday and Sunday 11am-2pm. Private dining space available. New Holladay location is now open. Visit us at www.taqueria27.com, twitter @taqueria27 or Facebook Taqueria27 for more information.

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TONA SUSHI BAR AND GRILL 210 25th Street, Ogden (801) 622-8662 facebook.com/tonasushi

Best of State – 2013, 2014 Best Sushi and 2014 Best Japanese Indie Ogden Awards – 2012, 2013 Best Sushi & Best Date Night Restaurant Top 10 Best Ski-Town Sushi Restaurants – Ski Magazine The food at Tona is meticulously prepared and attractively arranged. Tona combines local seasonal ingredients and fresh seafood from around the world to provide guests a new level of culinary dining experience. Its innovative usage of global ingredients sets Tona apart from its peers. Chefs’ endless creativity brings new surprises to guests that both please the eyes and the palate. The combination of traditional Japanese cooking with modern techniques and ingredients is what guests can find at Tona.

TUSCANY

2832 East 6200 South, SLC 801-277-9919 tuscanyslc.com Nestled in the foothills of the Wastach Mountains lies the accessible seclusion of Utah’s finest dining experience, Tuscany Restaurant. Conveniently located a short drive from downtown Salt Lake, allow Tuscany to engage all of your senses. Earthly aromas from the valley’s most beautiful dining patio mingle with the scents of traditional Tuscan cuisine. The beautiful variety of delightfully themed rooms easily accommodates any occasion. Our attentive, professional staff is on hand to provide service beyond expectations. Join us for large gatherings and intimate moments with that special someone. We invite you to experience the most elegant dinners in our Wine Reserve room.

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A curated guide to the best bars in Utah

No polkas here Beer Bar might have been the most-hyped restaurant opening in Salt Lake history: Food & Wine darling, Food Network regular and co-owner of award-winning Forage restaurant Viet Pham conceived (though he doesn’t cook) the Beer Bar menu. And Ty Burrell, star of ABC’s small-screen hit Modern Family, is a co-owner. Together, they lent their flatscreen luster to pre-opening coverage in Food & Wine magazine and then all over the Twitterverse and blogosphere. Ty’s brother Duncan Burrell and his two brothers-in-law, Jeff Barnard and Richard Noel, are also owners, and the place is pretty much modeled on Wurstkuche in L.A. Make no mistake, this is a hipster beer joint. It’s noisy and there’s no table service—you wait in line at the bar for your next beer–your choice of more than 140–or beer cocktail or boilermaker pairings to take back to your picnic table.Try the Reuben sandwich made with wurst–it’s received the most ink. 161 E. 200 South, SLC, 801 355-2287

21 & over Bars

Forget about navigating the state’s labyrinth of liquor laws—all the places listed here prioritize putting a drink in your hand, although most of them serve good food, too. Restricted to 21 and over (be prepared to show your I.D., whatever your age.) This is still Utah.

Aerie Thanks to floor-to-ceiling windows,

diners can marvel at nature’s magnificent handiwork while feasting from the sushi bar. The menu is global, and the scene is lively— with live music some nights. Cliff Lodge, Snowbird Resort, 801-933-2160. EGO

Bar X This drinker’s bar is devoted to cocktails and the shakers prefer the term “bartenders.” A survivor of the ups and downs of Utah liquor laws, this was the vanguard of Salt Lake’s new cocktail movement, serving classic drinks and creative inventions behind the best electric sign in the city. 155 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-355-2287. E The Bayou This is Beervana, with 260

bottled beers and 32 on draft. The kitchen is an overachiever for a beer bar, turning out artichoke pizza and deep-fried Cornish game hens. 645 S. State St., SLC, 801-961-8400. EGM

Beerhive Pub A great downtown beer bar with great food as well. The ice bar keeps things chill. Don’t forget about it. 128 S. Main St., SLC, 801-364-4268. EGL

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BTG Wine Bar BTG stands for “By the Glass.” There are craft cocktails and specialty beer, and you can order food from Caffe Molise, but the pieces des resistances are the more than 50 wines by the glass. Order a tasting portion or a full glass; sample vintages you might not want by the bottle. 63 W. 100 South, SLC, 801-359-2814. E Copper Common The Copper Onion’s new sibling, Copper Common, recently opened. See the full review on page 107. E

Cotton Bottom Inn Remember when this was a ski bum’s town? The garlic burger and a beer is what you order. 2820 E. 6200 South, SLC, 801-273-9830. EGL

of us of us savor all kinds of concoctions in a martini glass—just ask owner Cody Frantz. 16 W. Market St., SLC, 801-366-9490. E

Garage Everyone compares it to an Austin

side of the seafood restaurant, the Oyster Bar offers a full bar menu and seasonal drink specials. To begin or end an evening, have a real martinis or a classic, up daiquiri with a dozen oyster—half price on Mondays. 260 S. 1300 East, SLC, 801-583-8808. Downtown: 54 W. Market St., SLC, 801-531-6044. E

bar. Live music, good food and the rockingest patio in town. 1199 N. Beck St., SLC, 801-5213904. EGL

Gracie’s Play pool, throw darts, listen to live music, kill beer and time on the patio and upstairs deck. Plus, Gracie’s is a gastropub—you don’t see truffled ravioli in a vodkapesto sauce on most bar menus. 326 S. West Temple, SLC, 801-819-7563. EGM Green Pig Green Pig is a pub of a different color. The owners try to be green, using ecofriendly materials and sustainable kitchen practices. The menu star is the chili verde nachos, with big pork chunks and cheese. 31 E. 400 South, SLC, 801-532-7441. EGL

High West Distillery Obviously, the focus is on whiskey-based drinks featuring the gastro-distillery award-winning spirits, although the bar stocks other spirits. The food is whiskey-themed, too, and the space—in a former livery stable—is pure Park City. 703 Park Ave., Park City, 435649-8300. E Kristauf’s Martini Bar One of the first straight-up classy bars in the city, Kristauf’s opened in sync with the martini craze and has survived long enough to have competition. A gin martini is the purist’s cocktail but most

Market Street Oyster Bar The night-life

The Rest and Bodega The neon sign

says “Bodega” and you can drink a beer in the phone booth-sized corner bar. But better to go underground to the speakeasy-styled the Rest. Enjoy a cocktail in the apparently bomb-proof library, take a booth or sit at the bar and dine in. 331 S. Main St., SLC, 801‑532‑4042. E

The Shooting Star More than a century old, this is gen-you-wine Old West. The walls are adorned with moose heads and a stuffed St. Bernard. Good luck with finishing your Starburger. You must be 21 to eat and drink here. 7300 E. 200 South, Huntsville, 801-745-2002. EGL

All bars listed in the Salt Lake Bar Guide have been vetted and chosen based on quality of beverage, food, atmosphere and service. This selective guide has no relationship to any advertising in the magazine. Review visits are anonymous, and all expenses are paid by Salt Lake magazine.

The Vault In the boutique downtown Hotel

Monaco, The Vault is themed after the building’s original purpose as a bank. Besides classics, sip from a list of original concoctions, some of them winners from past Oscar cocktail contests, or order from the wine list of Bambara, the hotel restaurant. 202 S. Main St., SLC, 801-363-5454. E s a lt l a k e m a g a z i n e . c o m jul/aug 2014

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“Run for her life” The 8th Annual Susan Sandoval Run for Ovarian Cancer

Saturday, September 6, 2014 - 8:00 a.m. Sugarhouse Park (Big Field Pavilion) - Salt Lake City, Utah

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Contact: renee.chase@hsc.utah.edu 801.585.0067 All funds raised from the Run for Her Life go to the Ovarian Cancer Education, Awareness and Research Fund created in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Utah. The goals and mission are to: increase awareness of the signs, symptoms and risk factors for ovarian cancer as well as other gynecologic cancers (uterine, cervical, vulvar, vaginal and fallopian tube); to educate and improve the care of women diagnosed with gynecologic cancers; and focus on innovative research in this field.

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A few photos from the many local events covered in greater detail on SLmag.com

Salt Lake magazine Dining Awards Feb. 18, The Leonardo Museum, Photos by Carrie Butler

1 Drinks at Salt Lake magazine’s annual awards event for restaurants were provided by Five Wives Vodka, along with Vine Lore, Church & State, Wasatch Beers, Squatters, Libation and Southern Wine and Spirits. 2 Chef/owner of Eva’s Bakery Charlie Perry, Ashley Thompson 3 The group from Hell’s Backbone Grill, Dining Awards Hall of Fame members 4 Kelly Sue Pugh, Kathie Chadbourne and Aimee Chadbourne from Avenues Bistro on Third 5 Steven Rosenberg of Liberty Heights Fresh accepts an award from Salt Lake editor Mary Brown Malouf.

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Salt Lake magazine Dining Awards

1 Oak Adams, Bleu Adams, Tony Mihaly and Gibson Smiley represent Black Sheep Cafe 2 Courtney Thompson, KT Farley 3 Scott Albert, Aristo Boutiskakis, Jimmy Santangelo 4 Roxanna Posada, Frederick Perez, Maria Brignole, Wibur Arrojo, representing Del Mar al Lago

Salt Lake City International Tattoo Convention March 14â&#x20AC;&#x201C;16, Salt Palace Convention Center, Photos by Katie Nielson

5 Convention guests Jessa McDermott, Megan Anrader and Jaden Trole; world class tattoo artists gather at the annual convention to show off their work and give tattoos. 5

Tumbleweeds Film Festival

March 14, Pierpont Place/Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Photos by Samuel Askins

6 Before the opening night screening of Knight Rusty at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, guests enjoyed dinner at Pierpont Place, 7 Along with Tumbleweeds, the Utah Film Center hosts free screenings and discussions. 6

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Women on the Move Luncheon

Feb. 22, Grand America Hotel, Photos by Chelsea Folkerts

1 Ashley Kumlien, guest speaker for the luncheon fundraiser for the National MS Society Utah-Southern Idaho Chapter, who ran across America to raise MS awareness and funds for research in 2010; emcee for the event, ABC 4 anchor Kim Johnson 2 The fundraiserâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fashion show, presented by Paletti

High West Whiskey at the Leo

Feb. 27, The Leonardo Museum, Photos by Shauna Raso and Alisha Salazar Raso

3 Mathew Clevenger, Marybeth Janerich and Walter Lee at High Westâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Create What You Crave workshop, where guests learned about distillation and High West products 4 Guests toast the workshop, which is part of a Leonardo series on the art and science behind everyday desires 5 Michael Raso, Sr., Mikie Raso, Jr.

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my turn

Hope is the answer Learning from an old mistake helped forge a newfound compassion.

By john shuff

hope you're having a good day. Man, I hope it

doesn’t rain today. I hope my kids get home safely tonight. Hope, hope, hope. I opened a fortune cookie recently at a Chinese restaurant, which said it best: “Confucius say, ‘He who has hope, has everything.’”

The author with his wife Margaret Mary Shuff

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Think about it. Hope. This four-letter word, which we use repeatedly, is the emotional sustenance that helps many of us answer the bell each day. Hope is at the center of a story I often tell about myself, a story about insensitivity and bad judgment. In 1973, I was appointed by Governor Dan Walker of Illinois to the Bi-State Board, a body in charge of mass transportation in the southern Illinois metropolitan St. Louis area. As a member of that body I voted against a proposition to adapt a few buses in our jurisdiction for the disabled. You must understand that 42 years ago accessibility for the disabled was nonexistent. Therefore, this decision, which I based strictly on the lack of definitive cost benefits, deprived the disabled of the ability to travel in the mainstream with the able-bodied; it prevented them from assimilating into a society that had excluded them. It deprived them of hope. Today, I’m embarrassed and angry at this uncaring action toward a group that I joined 39 years ago when I was diagnosed with MS. I talk about this not to seek forgiveness, but to ask anyone else within earshot not to make the same mistake. I never knew then that one day I would become disabled and would need an environment that would accommodate me and my sidekick, the wheelchair I sit in every day. Taking away mobility is one way to take away a person’s spirit and his or her hope; sometimes, that is all that is left. Each of us will come to realize that the journey through life has bumps in the road, uncertainty, emotional peaks and valleys. My wife and I now understand this well. For the past 39 years, our journey has been fraught with fear and confusion, a lifetime replete with experimental drugs, programs of alternative therapy, good days and bad ones. We know the hope that comes with every new day is the only way we can make it through without caving into despair. Hope is not wishing; it’s not asking for miracles. It is the realization that we can take control and implement positive changes in our lives—through practical and positive actions, like changes in diet, exercise, meditation, visualization. Hope is the emotional nourishment that maintains our mental equilibrium; it’s the gyroscope that keeps us going in a positive direction. It is manifested in the simple thought that each day things will be better because we want them to be better. I wish back in 1973 I had known that. I have spent a lifetime since learning that lesson.

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