
To celebrate Vinto Pizzeria’s summer menu we have a great giveaway for one lucky reader and a friend. If you read our recent story, you will know about some of the great summer updates at Vinto.
In addition to a seasonally updated menu that’s currently popping with color, freshness and vibrancy, Vinto is also inviting summer Twilight Concert goers to enjoy a sweet deal. Simply show a ticket stub at Vinto on Monday night (from the previous week’s concert) and receive a free Margherita Pizza with any entree purchase.
If you still aren’t aware of Vinto (and seriously, where have you been?) its one of SLC’s finest restaurants, with a raft of awards under its belt including:
* Best of State casual Italian dining and gelato 2011-2014
* 2012-2013 Best Pastry Chef, Salt Lake Magazine
* 2011-14 Best Gelato, Best of State
* 2014 People’s Choice Best Dessert, KUER Savory Salt Lake
* Slow Food Snail Award, 2013 for years of service to Slow Food Utah
The winner of our competition will receive a very special dinner for two–highlighting the summery menu update, including:

Prosciutto and Melon Antipasti (pictured left)
Seasonal melon, prosciutto di parma, extra-virgin olive oil, sea salt
Verdura Chopped Salad
Romaine, mixed greens, quinoa, tomato, cucumber, grilled zucchini, yellow squash, grilled red onion, asparagus, peas, roasted corn, carrot, parmesan-herbed bread sticks, lemon basil vinaigrette
Vernazza Pizza
shrimp, forest mushrooms, roma tomatoes, red onion, mozzarella, goat cheese, tomato sauce, lemon
Campanelle with Pancetta (pictured above)
fresh peas, garlic, parmigiano cream sauce
Summer gelato sampler
All natural, fresh and housemade daily by award-winning pastry chef Amber Billingsley
To enter our competition all you need to do is leave a comment at the bottom of this post. As part of your comment, just let us know what’s your favorite summer treat? Bonus entry: As well as leaving a comment, sign up for our mailing list on the top right hand side of the page and receive a second entry. Double your chances of winning this great prize.
We will pick a winner randomly from all entries received on Friday, August 8, 2014.
Good luck!
Absolutely wonderful food & a divine atmosphere!
Love Vinto! I’ve wowed a number of out-of-town guests by taking them there. The food is always wonderful.
Caprese salads with fresh tomatoes and basil.
Incredible food – great menu! The Vernazza pizza is the best!
Summer gelato!
love Vinto! Such a great place for fresh, light summer meals.
I love seared fish and wine in the summer.
My favorite summer treat is eating all the frozen treats I want without guilt and using the heat as an excuse to sometimes indulge twice a day!
My favourite Summer treat is chilled French champagne, tempura oysters with wasabi aioli and crispy skinned salmon with a side of crisp green apple slaw.
Can’t believe I haven’t been here yet! Favorite summer food, sugar snap peas!!! Mmmm
Love garden tomatoes in the summer.
My favorite is all the fresh fruit and veg.
I love Salad or sherbet!
Caprese salad with tomatoes and basil from our home garden!
ooooohhhhh…..love Vinto. Pick me!!!!! Pick me!!!!!
My favorite summer treat is fresh fruit!
favorite treat? mojitos! and i signed up for the news letter! fingers & toes crossed!
Love Amber’s gelato’s AND the curb side pick up family style takeaway!
I love fresh heirloom tomatoes from my garden! I’ll admit to indulging in Vinto’s butterscotch budino and gelato too.
All of that sounds delicious. My favorite summer treat would be a toss up between a caprese salad and a mojito.
Gourmet pizzas at Vintos are my favorite…but I’ll have to try the pasta after this delectable review!
Yum. I love homegrown tomatoes.
Looking forward to it! 🙂
That food looks amazing. My favorite summer treat is watermelon. yummy. toastersareflying@ gmail.com
I love tomatoes fresh from the garden. Also, perfectly ripe peaches. Vinto is one of our family’s favorites.
Vinto is a great gem in Utah
Otter pops!
Best Pepperoni Pizza in town!
Fresh local produce for all the things: food and drink. Vinto is great! Be fun to come visit soon.
I love homemade ice cream. Totally a summer treat.
Garden fresh tomatoes!
My favorite summer treat is fresh peaches and produce from the garden… Summer is the best time of year for incredible food!!
Best thing about Vinto is splitting things with friends so you can try a lot of different things!
I haven’t heard of this one yet! I love gelato though.
watermelon, basil cocktails!
Never been there! But I love authentic gelato!
Just subscribed. Thanks!
I live downtown and I LOVE walking over to Vinto late after dinner for dessert and a nightcap!
Gelato and crisp summer salads full of basil and tomato!
Wonderful pizza. They are perfect for outdoor concerts.
Sounfs like my new favorite place .
Ripe tomatoes picked fresh from our garden!
Love the pizza! My summer favorite is the melon and proscuitto.
Summertime favorite, berries of all kinds!
I really like otter pops in the summer.
Anything grilled!
My favorite summer treat is definitely gelato. Pistachio is my favorite!
Fruit tarts have to be the best, the more diverse fruits, the merrier.
Viva Vinto! Vanilla bean ice cream with a splash of ice-cold Deschutes black butte porter over the top for a tasty beer float
I don’t know where I’ve been (probably cooking at home with my family!), but this looks so good! I NEED to try it… Hmmm my birthday is coming up!… 🙂 Favorite summer dessert is all of the fresh fruit! Or any cobblers made with the fresh fruit with vanilla ice cream! Yum! @growingfourlife
I love Vinto!! I’d probably have to say corn; I could eat it every day in the summer!
Anything with cilantro, corn and lime.
Ya. Summer. Time for a Southern staple: fresh picked tomatoes on white bread with mayo, salt and pepper–no more, no less. Followed by a peach so juicy it has to be eaten over the sink.
My favorite summer treat: apricots from the backyard tree, still warm from the sun.
My favorite summer treat: corn on the cob, cooked just a few hours out of the garden!
We’d like to congratulate Daniel on being the luck winner of this giveaway, picked randomly from our comments and mailing list. If you didn’t win, don’t despair, we have a ton of fabulous follow up giveaways already taking shape. Be sure to join the mailing list so you get the scoop first!