Pago Summer Sommelier Series: Santa Giustina

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I’m fortunate enough to eat at more wine dinners than makes healthy sense. Yes, that was your cue to whip up a tune on your world’s smallest violin (idea: someone should actually kickstart those). In contrast, you may notice I write very little about these dinners. Firstly, there’s the sheer ephemeral nature of the events, … Read more

At Caffe d’bolla, the tao of coffee is always about pursuing beauty, perfection

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Utah’s coffee culture is a work in progress, yet to approach anything close to critical mass despite a fairly respectable number of coffeehouses that, for the most part, have managed to sustain themselves. However, only a handful of cities throughout the United States can make a legitimate claim to a coffee culture that challenges and … Read more

Leo Libations: Eat and drink the science!

 The Leonardo, Salt Lake City’s newest museum, has become a popular destination to nourish minds and palates alike.  Leo Libations is a series of classes taught by James Santangelo of The Wine Academy of Utah and fed by the Leonardo’s chef de cuisine, Zanetta Jones. Classes cover different topics; the one my husband and I … Read more

Pago Summer Sommelier Series

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If you were lucky enough to experience one of Pago’s ‘Summer Sommelier Series’ dinners last year, you’ll likely be at the front of the queue to repeat the experience in 2014. The cuisine of chef Phelix Gardner and his team, savvy of owner Scott Evans and the charming exuberance of sommelier Evan Lewandowski combined for … Read more

Naked Fish Japanese Bistro Review

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Naked Fish is set to change in late 2016, read more on our sister site Gastronomic Salt Lake City. I’m very fond of telling people that Salt Lake City is the next Portland. If you know me in person, I’ve probably bored you with this notion to the point you’ve now actually moved there to … Read more

NHMU exhibit demonstrates clearly Utah’s passion for making, eating great chocolate

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One of the best indicators of just how enthusiasm for fine chocolate has grown in Utah in less than a decade is the response to the chocolate exhibit at the Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City. It’s not uncommon for the exhibit, which chronicles neatly the long cultural and anthropological history of … Read more

Fresco features Mezzo Chocolate tasting menu

In partnership with The Natural History Museum of Utah and their current exhibit, Chocolate: The Exhibition, local chocolate makers and restaurants are partnering together to create a special chocolate dish to celebrate the exhibit. For March, Fresco Italian Café’s chef Logan Holt is pairing with Mezzo Chocolate to create an amazing three-course chocolate meal for … Read more

Utah Opera’s Silk & Spices Festival, March 19 & 20

To celebrate the Utah Opera’s spring production of Turandot, they are highlighting the Chinese culture and cuisine during the Silk & Spices Festival. The opera is set in Peking so Silk & Spices highlights Utah’s growing Chinese culture— including Salt Lake’s new Chinatown on State Street near 3300 South. For two evenings only, enjoy a … Read more

Ultimate Chocolate Festival

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Chocolate lovers – and who isn’t? – are invited to attend the Ultimate Chocolate Festival the weekend of March 22-23 at the Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center. The not-to-be missed event will feature local chocolate-makers, cafes, specialty items, and the museum’s popular feature exhibit Chocolate: The Exhibition, from The Field … Read more