April 2008

Shannon Keller

The St. Patrick’s Day Parade down the center of the Gateway mall March 15 is always a blast, but trying to park nearby is rarely as much fun.

Dan Nailen

A day of great finds awaits in this tiny shopping district nestled between Highland Park and the Salt Lake Country Club

Erin Bean

Santa Fe is celebrating its 400th anniversary.

Mary Brown Malouf

As my husband, Dave, and I swim Interstate 15’s sea of SUVs, I can’t shake the feeling I’ve forgotten something. “You’re just missing the kids,” Dave assures me. We’re now heading...

Melissa Fields

Spring’s arrival brings turbulent emotions for a snow lover in a ski town.

Jeremy Pugh

Under the broken asphalt and orange cones downtown, beneath the scrubbed stucco walls of the Gateway, lie the borders of Salt Lake’s early ethnic districts: Greektown, Japantown, Little Italy....

Erin Bean

When we were 10 years old, Robbie Willis and I used to sneak over to Dairy Queen and split a large order of fries. We were odd kids, a fact evidenced in our choice to forego Dairy Queen’s more...

Jeremy Pugh

Bruce Bastian is gay, and in his perfect world, that statement would be as meaningful as “Bruce Bastian is right-handed.” It would be as insignificant as the color of his eyes or his...

Erin Bean

SLC’s new mayor puts a friendly face on city hall

Matt Pacenza

Consider a vet living in an animal hospital, or a baker plumping pillows in the café. For many folks, living where they work is simply not a viable option. But for this Midway mother-and-daughter...

Natalie Taylor

John Bolton founded Salt Lake Roasting in 1981, long before coffee became the new Coke. And he still serves as the on-site, hands-on owner, manager and general factotum, meeting with coffee growers...

Mary Brown Malouf

At some point, pizza became flatbread. Not if a teenager delivers it to your door, but in sit-down restaurants these days, you’re often offered what-once-might-have-been-called-foccacia loaded so...

Mary Brown Malouf

As snows recede, the trickle of southbound travel from the Wasatch becomes a torrent. From a food-centric point of view, it's time to break out of the Wasatch rut and see what's on the table in red...

Mary Brown Malouf

Freezing smoke flows heavily over the lip of the stainless steel bowl as Jerry Hancock stirs the mixture madly, like a stray witch from Macbeth. Don’t be nervous—your ice cream is almost ready....

Angeline Olschewski

The café at Emigration Market is fair game for jokes about restaurant ambience, but we found something absolutely cozy about having dinner at our local grocery store, even in full view of shelves...

Mary Brown Malouf

Gastronomy, Inc. serves about 2,000 pounds of fresh seafood every day in the middle of a geographical desert.

Mary Brown Malouf

Indochine, located in the cursed Geppeto’s space near the U, is not another mom-and-pop Asian joint.

Mary Brown Malouf