Every year the list is different. We don’t do categories, we don’t fill in forms, we don’t count votes. We just pick our brains and everyone else’s for the coolest, newest and unexpected superlatives in the Beehive State. Every year we surprise ourselves and are delighted at the discoveries. You too will be surprised and delighted. And, no doubt, disgruntled. Because we left out one of your favorites. Let us know.
Comedy Clean Enough for Utah County (and the world), Dry Bar Comedy Club – Modern comedy tends to the dark side of dirty. But the jokes at Dry Bar Comedy Club are clean enough that you can bring your 10 kids. It turns out there was a huge hankering for PG comedy not just in Provo but everywhere. Well-produced YouTube videos are rivaling giants like Comedy Central in views (102,307,857 and counting) and Dry Bar has become a must-play venue for touring comedians who usually play blue but will clean up their material to play the club. Oh my heck! 295 W. Center St., Provo, drybarcomedy.com
Best Re-use. Plus, Pancakes, Tru Religion Pancake and Steakhouse – We wept, we wailed, we gnashed our teeth when the venerable Lamb’s restaurant, a Main Street fixture since it opened in 1919, was passed over by SLC restaurateurs and dismantled. What can we say but thank God for Tru Religion? The pancake and steakhouse opened its dark mahogany doors in Orem and revealed the classic booths (with hat racks!) tables, chairs, bars, doors and woodwork hails from the former Lamb’s Grill. 360 S. State St. Suite 158, Orem, trureligionpancakeandsteakhouse.com
Check out more of our Best of the Beehive winners here.