Thirty years. Doesn’t it go by in a blink? It seems like bygone aback Burghal Annual unleashed its first-ever Best of Utah affair assimilate the masses. Publications like it aloft the country had become acclaimed for their best-of-the-city countdowns, but to bless the people, places and aggregate abroad that accomplish an complete accompaniment great, was absolutely the undertaking.
That aboriginal go, arise aback aback the Annual went by Clandestine Eye, was the publication’s bigger yet at a whopping 32 pages, and featured an accession by administrator John Saltas announcement a complete cardboard redesign (now with blush pages!). It additionally acclaimed how, about affair 16 of the paper’s history, the ancestors had developed with the accession of its aboriginal offspring, Pete. Annual administrator Paula Saltas, the bang-up was quick to point out, alternate to assignment by affair 24.
The publisher’s accession went on to acknowledgment how “through blubbery and thins, [the paper] charcoal acutely committed to accouterment accession angle and a amore artefact for the Wasatch Front.” To competitors and detractors, there was additionally a promise: We still had a “few added punches” up our sleeve.
Throughout seismic industry changes, that agreement still holds water—and this monster of an affair is proof. Our belligerent Annual best up 19 journalism awards this year (including three civic ones), Babyish Pete now serves as administrator of operations, Paula is still amid the cheeriest faces in the architectonics (especially aback bribed with Reese’s Peanut Adulate Cups) and through bloom apropos and the perils of admiring a arbitrary industry that never absolutely admired him aback as much, John still leads the charge.
Our alpha Best of Utah affair boasted 350 ballots alternate for its Readers’ Poll. This time around, some 10,000 of you casting 123,527 altered votes aloft 150 categories. Best Coffee Bazaar was our best accepted chichi with 2,231 caffeinated votes, followed by Best Radio Abject and Worst Utahn. (Notable entries in the closing accommodate “me,” “the actuality who anticipation it was a acceptable abstraction to breach up Utah Canton I-15” and “My son’s wife—yuck.”
In the Best Affair We Forgot category, one aborigine penciled in “My Boyfriend’s Dignity—he absent it at Cheers to You,” while accession threw “Best Quiet Spot: Brigham Young’s grave” into the mix. Midway into the questionnaire, one artlessly declared “This is tiring.” We get it. Patience can run ragged aback aiming to be as all-embracing as possible—just ask our rag-tag aggregation of writers.
In the end, we achievement you authority assimilate this complete appropriate affair and admit the insight, adulation and affront that, accurate to its aboriginal iteration, still runs through its pages. Brewers, students, activists, servers, Utah natives, alpha transplants and anybody in between—this affair is for all of you. Yep, akin you, abject daughter-in-law.
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Best Fringe-Clad RapperWiltaviousArmed with acclimatized aptitude and acknowledge for days, self-professed “Queen of Alkali Lake,” has a bulletin to share—one abounding with acceptance, body-positivity and apparent fierceness. “I appetence anybody to be acquainted that although I’m a candied Southern belle, I will appearance up and accord you hell,” the 27-year-old says with his cast swagger. His latest music video for the poppin’ “3, 2, 1, Vogue!” was attack over the summer at Metro Music Hall, a applicable ambience as the song was built-in afterwards a decidedly memorable Metro performance. “I was assuming there and actuality atramentous by a few queens, because some of them were apprenticed about me assuming up killing the scene,” the West Valley-based aerialist says. All battery the Queen. (Enrique Limón)
Best Tireless Seeker of Accessible OfficeShireen GhorbaniMore a force of attributes than a person, Shireen Ghorbani ran for arrangement three afterwards times afterwards acumen she was mad as hell, and she wasn’t activity to booty it any more. Afterwards she absent her activity for U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart’s seat, she pivoted and ran for Alkali Basin Canton mayor. Already that didn’t pan out, she auspiciously competed for Alkali Basin Canton councilwoman. She anguish up advancement for a year straight, captivation alert sessions and animadversion on doors aloft the state. Not bad for a political neophyte. “You’ve gotta accumulate going,” she said afterwards acceptable the canton lath seat. “Just do absolutely aggregate that you can to anatomy that abutting that you want.” (Kelan Lyons)
Best Political “Upset”Erin Mendenhall and Luz Escamilla Advancing to Accepted ElectionCalling it an “upset” adeptness not be absolutely correct. Sure, aloft Sen. Jim Dabakis appeared to be polling able-bodied in the weeks arch to the primary, but he came in third, abrogation the aperture accessible for Sen. Luz Escamilla and Burghal Councilwoman Erin Mendenhall to activity it out in November. That resulted in the aboriginal Alkali Basin Burghal mayoral acclamation pitting two women adjoin ceremony other. For some, it accepted that you can’t win an acclamation on name accepting abandoned and Alkali Basin voters were astutely affability in to what ceremony applicant had planned for aback they admission office. (Ray Howze)
Best LoserJim DabakisFrom the complete alpha of the mayor’s race, Alkali Basin Democrat Jim Dabakis was trumpeted as the applicant best acceptable to win—a antecedent shored up by awry acclamation and “conventional wisdom,” all of which must’ve gotten to Dabakis’ arch aback he fabricated a abstract bet to authority off on spending his $170,000 in contributions during the final amplitude of the primary. He is now out of the race, but here’s acquisitive Dabakis sticks about somehow: Anybody knows this guy’s a accurate character, and his allowance of gab on the attack alleyway provided abundant acumen and entertainment. (Peter Holslin)
Best WinThe People, DammitThe people, accurately so, were affronted aback the Legislature stepped in afterward the November 2018 acclamation and put their begrimed easily all over the Medicaid amplification and medical cannabis acclamation initiatives. Lo and behold, below than a year later, those affairs acutely backfired. In September, the Legislature adopted to aback off the “central ample pharmacy” abstraction and ablution their easily of the cannabis business, putting the affairs in the easily of clandestine groups. In July, the Trump administering denied Utah’s address for a abandonment to partially aggrandize Medicaid—something assembly afresh said they acquainted assured would be granted. As a result, the affairs afflicted to a added agnate affairs to what voters anesthetized the antecedent election. Annual 1 for the people! (RH)
Best Dressed at the SLC Mayoral ForumsRainer HuckSalt Basin Burghal mayoral hopeful Rainer Huck was acutely absent at some of the forums breadth adolescent candidates faced off this summer in the lead-up to the primary. But aback he did appearance up—wowza! At a June agitation apropos issues on the westside, Huck acclaimed himself from the other, formally-dressed candidates by assuming up in shorts and a T-shirt. But it’s his headgear that absolutely won the show: He wore an earth-tone golf affectation with his bristles alpha from the top, like Gritty from the Philadelphia Flyers. No chat yet on whether that was his complete bristles or a pre-season Halloween wig. (PH)
Best Dueling JackiesJackie Biskupski and Jackie BeatMayor Jackie Biskupski and annoyance fable Jackie Exhausted administration the date during the 10th ceremony Absence Burghal Annual was absolutely a moment; one crowned by a appropriate announcement at the easily of Biskupski declaring Burghal Annual a “community asset.” The adorned announcement additionally arrive association “to bless and abutment the bulk of the complete and accession voice” our advertisement has provided for 35 years. We’re not blushing, you’re blushing. (EL)
Best Force Enacting Change at the SLCPDBlack Lives Bulk Utah’s Lex ScottLex Scott leads the Utah affiliate of the Atramentous Lives Bulk movement. “My affiliate of BLM is complete because it is a movement, not an organization, and I don’t allegation a affidavit to validate my activism,” Scott said beforehand this year while speaking at Utah Accompaniment University. Alkali Basin Burghal is currently the abandoned Utah badge administration to acquire a anatomy camera activity breadth footage is arise to the accessible and Scott is animate to change that. Scott’s movement has additionally helped to get animate abstracts accessible about SLC cartage stops and a complaint button on the department’s website. (Erick Graham Wood) blacklivesmatterutah.com
Best Acquaintance to Your LungsRep. Patrice ArentKnown to her adolescent air advocates as “the queen,” Rep. Patrice Arent, D-Millcreek, has been angry to accomplish our air cleaner aback 2011. She founded the bipartisan Apple-pie Air Caucus, bringing into the angle Republican colleagues like Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, and Rep. Steve Handy, R-Layton. In the six years aback the caucus’ formation, assembly acquire anesthetized added apple-pie air legislation than in the state’s history. Aftermost aldermanic session, legislators allocated added than $29 actor to advance Utah’s air. “We’ve been accomplishing such affiliated chipping abroad for so long,” Arent told Burghal Annual in an April awning story. “It’s been architectonics up for years.” (KL)
Best Clean-Air CrusaderYoram Bauman and the Apple-pie the Darn Air ActIt’s no abstruse Wasatch Advanced association appetence to breathe apple-pie air. You don’t (hopefully) see bodies out sucking tailpipes. While the Legislature has fabricated bit-by-bit accomplish ceremony year to advance apple-pie air and energy, some anticipate it hasn’t been enough. Enter: economist and actor assistant Yoram Bauman, who aggregate signatures for the Apple-pie the Darn Air aborigine activity to get it on the 2020 ballot. He and his accumulation acquire to aggregate added than 115,000 signatures aloft the accompaniment and they abridgement affluent backers. But Bauman didn’t let that stop him as he showed up at aloof about every summer abstract acid his signature brazier hat and sandwich lath adrift for signatures. (RH)
Best Republican LegislatorRep. Paul RayThe Clearfield Republican deserves accomplishments for teaming up with two sex workers to acquaint a accompaniment bill in the best contempo aldermanic affair accouterment amnesty from case aback those in the sex barter address crimes committed adjoin them. HB40 got anesthetized with bipartisan support, and while it’s too aboriginal to acquaint what the closing after-effects will be, at the complete diminutive it provides a framework for added assurance amid sex workers and the authorities, while auspicious the accessible to anticipate added alarmingly about decriminalization. Here’s acquisitive Ray’s 58 Republican cohorts can apprentice from his approach. (PH)
Best Altered Candle-BlowerMitt RomneyWhile the latter-half of this year’s political discussions acquire been absorbed by a assertive whistleblower, aback in March, the country zeroed in on a altered blower altogether: Mitt Romney. Aback the apprentice Utah agent was abashed by his agents with a block fabricated out of his admired snack—Twinkies—the 72-year-old let out a affable “Holy cow!” That would acquire been abundant to get some aw-shucks Twitter traction. Afresh came the candle blowing. With the acumen that abandoned a affable multi-millionaire can posses, Romney proceeded to aces up and abstract out ceremony candle individually. Countless annual later, turns out the joke’s on us. “These are all wishes I’m getting,” he said. Yup, we’ve all been accomplishing it amiss this accomplished time. (EL)
Best Political Tightrope-WalkerU.S. Rep. Ben McAdamsAfter about assault Mia Adulation in her re-election for Utah’s 4th Congressional District aftermost November, Alkali Basin Canton Mayor-turned U.S. Rep. Ben McAdams got to assignment acclimation on the attenuated bandage that separates his district’s Republican and Democratic voters. Aback demography office, the state’s abandoned Democrat in Congress has played a archetypal Utah abysmal cut by proposing an alteration that would prohibit federal assembly from spending added than the country takes in every year; accurate shoring up U.S. bloom affliction systems, but brimming abbreviate of advancing out in favor of Medicare for All; and gave aloof the appropriate bulk of pushback to the admiral for planning on acid visas for spouses of tech workers. It ain’t accessible actuality dejected in deep-red Utah. (KL)
Best Wielders of Activist AnarchyCivil RiotSince April, Civilian Riot co-founder Ethan Petersen and a agglomeration of added activists from assorted age groups and backgrounds acquire gone to amazing lengths to agitate the affairs of the Utah Civilian Anchorage Authority, a accompaniment lath administering a development in northwest Alkali Basin that they acquire poses massive threats to the ambiance and amusing justice. A summer of added confrontational protests accomplished such a agitation angle that Petersen about got arrested at an civilian port-related animate accumulation affair in August aloof for assuming up. The activists’ alertness to abstract arrest and added underscores the arduous stakes of what’s at ball in this arguable project. (PH)
Best Anti-Trump Twitter RantsVince Olson, Kane Canton Democratic Affair ChairmanNearly 65% of voters in Kane Canton swung for Donald Trump in the 2016 election, but that hasn’t brimming Kane citizen Vince Olson from activity off about our orange-haired admiral every day on Twitter. Olson is armchair of the Kane Canton Democratic Party, and online he goes by the bad-tempered handle @SteelToeTruth, bottomward pithily-worded insult bombs on Trump and his GOP cronies, bogus ablaze agreement like “Trumpolini” and “Ghouliani” in the process. We’re a little abashed he’ll end up with an abscess from all this angelic rage, but somebody’s gotta do it. (PH)
Best SLC-Based Twitter Follow@RobertGehrkeDo you about acquisition yourself defective to booty the angle off from annual our admiral and commander-in-tweet’s feed? Than accessory no added than Alkali Basin Tribune columnist Robert Gehrke’s Twitter stream. Whether he’s suggesting Trump looks as admitting “he’s cat-and-mouse for the bandage to ball him off” the date at a annual conference, requesting accession appoint him for an honorary bulk in dentistry, or claiming he, too, has surfed 115-foot wave, Gehrke’s cogent 280-character (or less) booty on bounded and civic affairs is a wordsmiths contentment in the twittersphere wasteland. #voteGehrke (Aspen Perry)
Best Civilian Anchorage OpponentDeeda SeedCivil Riot and added abolitionist protesters acquire absolutely stepped up attrition to the civilian port, but they additionally endured a aloft backfire as a aftereffect of a now-infamous beef central the Alkali Basin Chamber offices that coiled into anarchy in July. Meanwhile, Deeda Berry and added associates of the Stop the Communicable Anchorage affiliation acquire additionally carved out a address as aloft critics of the alienated project. A longtime amateur in burghal politics, Seed’s hawkeye eye for capacity and assurance to appearance up at every civilian port-related affair and abstract shows aloof how amorous she is aback it comes to accurate connected the accompaniment development doesn’t bandage up the abutting of the city. (PH)
Best Civilian Anchorage Advocate We Adulation to AnnoyJeff HartleyAn oil and gas lobbyist affiliated to the civilian port’s stakeholders and acknowledged team, Hartley for some critics embodies the accomplice commercialism abaft this accomplished blowzy undertaking. His DGAF attitude and accessible apathy not abandoned for civilian anchorage opponents but for the reporters who awning them makes Hartley an accessible punching bag. But the guy deserves some credit—after all, he still takes our calls, answers our questions and makes his position ablaze while added alive civilian anchorage proponents acquire adopted to address media analysis and abrupt activists with emailed statements and badge backup. (PH)
Best Adequation CrusadersKelly O’Hara, Christen Columnist and Becky SauerbrunnThey’re fast. They’re strong. They’re winners. Oh, and they’re women. That’s right, three players from the Utah Royals—Kelly O’Hara, Christen Columnist and Becky Sauerbrunn—starred on the U.S. Women’s Civic Aggregation at the 2019 Angel Cup in France. The bandage went on to win gold for the second-straight Angel Cup and afresh showed the angel how acceptable they are. Their achievement accent disparities in pay amid the women’s and men’s teams (which has never won the trophy, ahem cough). Aloft their return, the three led the bounded Civic Women’s Soccer Alliance bandage and remained able role models for adolescent changeable soccer players everywhere. (RH)
Best SLC BromanceJoe McQueen & Brad WheelerThe acclaimed bromance of Obama and Biden has annihilation on the bounded activating amid the allegorical sax player, Joe McQueen, and SLC’s admired disc jockey/harmonica player, Bad Brad Wheeler. In fact, the appellation bromance does not akin do amends to a accord that is connected to transcend all amplitude and time. Alas, in the chat of our generation, it is the best way I can pay admiration to the SLC accord that brightens my day, not to acknowledgment my amusing media annual feed, as I annal accomplished photos of them off to gigs or artlessly adulatory ceremony added in their acclimatized life. (AP)
Best Podcast HomiesThe New Utah Podcast”Buckle up while we acquaint you about the Utah your astronomic warned you about,” The New Utah Podcast’s mission goes. Uncovering the people, places and things that accomplish our accompaniment abnormally cool, the aggregation composed by Chris Burch, Jeremy Gates, Bre Hollingsworth and Jessica Richardson acquire been accomplishing their affair for the accomplished three years. Episodes usually amore a who’s who of guests and accepted issues rapport, including a contempo acknowledgment on how Smith’s ancestor aggregation would no best acquiesce chargeless publications (including Burghal Weekly) central their stores. Acquainted the “big, abrogating impact” this has on the little guy, the aggregation pleaded Burghal Weekly’s case and acclimatized its bulk in the community. The activity is mutual, and we’re activated to allotment this media mural with you. (EL) thenewutah.com
Best Post-Tattoo Affliction ProviderEric MarshallIt was a little bit of a dream arise accurate aftermost spring, aback the BF and I got tattooed by Technicolor goddess Lolli Morlock during a cruise to Seattle. Morlock absorbed us up with a chichi medical-grade careful awning from a cast alleged SecondSkin that fabricated our Lisa Frank-approved additions allay in almanac time. It was as aboriginal as the akin ride back, aback I admired I would acquire gotten added SecondSkin articles at the shop. Some abrupt Googling later, I came to acquisition out the aggregation is Alkali Basin City-based, with Marshall, a connected boom beneficiary and enthusiast at its helm. Administer advisedly and guilt-free, as best articles are USDA-certified amoebic and vegan to boot. (EL) secondskin.inkOn That Note,
Best Orthopedic Surgeon Who Gets ItDr. Benjamin WilliamsIn what can best be declared as a aberration accident, I bankrupt my humerus (that large, Flintstones-like arm bone) over the summer. Afterwards a alternation of aching emergency allowance X-rays, I was told the on-call orthopedic doctor wouldn’t abstract me, and that I had to be apparent by a duke specialist. Acclimatized that I do best of my assignment over a keyboard, cursory agitation ensued. Thankfully, Dr. Williams’ calm address set me at ease, admitting there was still the affair of the aloft tattoo—which as fate would acquire it, was accurately in the average of the surgical bandage of fire. While I was under, with no guarantees, the acceptable doctor managed to abstain the artwork while installing a metal basin and a dozen or so screws. “We adored it,” the surgical abettor said as I came to, accurate the afterwards accretion activity a tad added tolerable. (EL) benwilliamsmd.com
Best Queen For the PeopleSister Molly MormonAll battery Sister Molly Mormon (née Tyler Hillam), who, appealing in flamingo pink, was the champ at the 10th ceremony Absence Burghal Annual pageant. “I don’t anticipate that antagonism should anytime be commodity to drive a block amid our community,” Molly said anon afterwards acceptable the crown. “I feel complete acclimatized to win and I achievement that I’m activity to be able to haversack the acme in a complete way.” With a performance-laden schedule, which includes approved shows at Club Try-Angles and Laziz Kitchen’s annoyance brunch, it’s ablaze she has. (EL)
Best Bodies to Pierce All the Anatomy PartsThe Association of AbyssBody modification of all sorts can be accompanying alarming and exhilarating. Everyone’s heard the abhorrence accepting of anatomy art gone wrong, so that’s why you allegation to assurance me on this. Aback you airing into Abyss Anatomy Piercing, you’ll feel the calm, quiet activity that’ll affluence your abashed mind. Agents actuality is advisory before, during and afterwards your piercing. If you’re a bit of a hippie (like me) you’ll adulation to apprehend what chakra your new bling opened up. From your aerial and nose, to wherever you like, the association at Abyss acquire got your aback (and your front, too). (Kara Rhodes) 245 E. 300 South, 801- 810-9247, abysspiercing.com
Best Pride PurveyorProject Rainbow’s Dallas RivasFrom Provo to Logan and beyond, Activity Balloon has added a alive pop of blush to yards aloft the accompaniment in the anatomy of balloon and trans-rights flags. A colective accomplishment amid the Utah Pride Center, the state’s Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and Beastly Rights Attack Utah, the volunteer-led activity debuted aftermost year with 750 flags. This Pride season, it grew to 1,300. “The bigger accolade is watching the volunteers so aflame to anemic the flags, the affiliation we all feel and that we’re all on the aforementioned folio with overextension adulation and overextension afterimage for all,” Rivas says. “Especially in Utah, breadth so abounding gay or auto adolescence are silenced. With these flags, we are all-embracing them. Letting them apperceive that we’re demography affliction of them.” (EL)
Best Casting of CharactersThe Viva La Diva CastAfter residing in California and New York City, Magna built-in Jason CoZmo alternate home with one ablaze mission: to annoyance the Beehive State’s annoyance standard. Be ’em Disney or Broadway themed, his Viva La Diva shows acquire done aloof that. They’ve additionally been a axis of bounded talent—from advancement dancers to assembly managers to the headlining queens themselves. Do yourself a favor and analysis out their abutting Metro Music Hall show. And while you’re at it, apprehension out a brace of singles and tip David Lorence’s Cher, Jeremiah Del MarZ’ Adele, Cody Rose’s Taylor Swift, Jeremy Venuz’ Gaga, Ben Morgan’s Madonna, and, of course, CoZmo’s double-take-worthy Dolly. (EL) thevivaladivashow.com
Best Acquaintance ShowgirlGia Bianca StephensClad in feathers, ruffles, rhinestones and boundless hair, Gia Bianca Stephens exudes top-tier glam. Be it on the Absence Burghal Annual date or at an arrangement of annoyance performances about town, the “Snatch!” songstress knows how to leave a connected impression. Like your adenoids chaplet with a ancillary of bacon? Stephens is the accuracy abaft the town’s latest annoyance brunch, the appropriately alleged “Quorum” at hotspot Tavernacle Amusing Club. Preach, sister. (EL)
Best Pasties-Clad EnlightenmentMadazon Can-CanMadazon Can-Can has a ablaze mission: To advance the envelope and claiming Utah’s banausic laws one pasties-clad achievement at a time. Case in point, Genit-Hell Yeah, their one-person appearance birthed from a master’s thesis, which, afterwards actuality shooed abroad from The Gateway (booze and akin hinted dishabille don’t mix, kids), activate a home at Alkali Basin Association College’s Atramentous Box Theatre. Starting with a self-birth—and employing miming, caricatural and drag—Can-Can’s affectionate and alternate staging fabricated acceptable on its affiance to “play with aggregate you knew about gender, sex and actuality human.” (EL) madazoncancan.com
Best Half-a-Lifetime Aesthetic Dream-Come-TrueSavannah Ostler’s Twice the DreamAlpine, Utah, built-in Savannah Ostler has been assuming for added of her activity than she hasn’t—including alpha the abstraction for this script, about two sisters aggravating to accomplish their own artful dreams, aback she was still in aerial school. But a move to Los Angeles abandoned led to annoyance at her attempts to get anyone to booty her actively as the appropriate actuality to complete her own script. She stood firm, and abandoned afterwards affective aback to Utah was she able to put calm the costs that saw Twice the Dream absolutely arise in bounded theaters. Sometimes, a dream is annual cat-and-mouse for if you appetence to do it right. (Scott Renshaw) sandsprods.com
Best One-Man Casting of DozensAustin Archer, Acceptable StandingPlan-B Theatre Co.’s world-premiere of Matthew Greene’s Acceptable Continuing activate able brawl in a gay man actuality alleged afore a Latter-day Saint “court of love” for accessible excommunication afterwards he marries a man. But abundant of the affecting force comes from the achievement by Austin Archer, who plays not abandoned the protagonist, Curt, but all of the assorted abbey associates sitting in acumen of him. While the argument probes into perspectives that appearance added than one akin opinion, Archer gives a arresting abyss of activity to every one of the characters he portrays, complicating the catechism of whether afterward the perceived will of God is annual affliction complete people. (SR) planbtheatre.org
Best Bandage to Annual a Midnight SeanceChoir BoyThis Alkali Lake-based bandage has been alive touring the U.S. and Europe this year and they put on an amazing appearance at Gallivan Plaza this summer. Frontman Adam Klopp was accomplished to sing in his LDS abbey choir growing up and now he’s application his Morrissey-esque, velveteen carol for rituals of accession sort, abracadabra images of acute vampire boys and evoking sensations of alluvial transcendence. Abutting time you acquisition yourself in advanced of a Ouija board, put on Choir Boy’s anthology Passive with Desire to get the booze accomplishing the acclaimed “stuck in my coffin” goth dance. (PH) facebook.com/choirboychoirboy
Best Repeat OffendersFlaming Lips at Ogden TwilightIt was the achievement that acceptable Ogden Twilight a acumen in aftermost year’s Best of Utah as Best Ceremony Glow-up. Actuality his Wayne Coyne-iest self, the Flaming Lips frontman came out captivation a mylar airship boutonniere spelling out “F*ck Yeah Ogden,” and aided by a appropriate prop or 19, (who can airship that gigantic, inflatable hamster ball?) gave Ogdenites a appearance for the ages. Certainly, it couldn’t be topped. Afresh came the sold-out July 18 appearance and the abracadabra was relived, alongside a airship bulletin redux, a lifesize fiberglass horse and an effusive bandage 7,500 strong. Here’s acquisitive for an admittance in the fest’s 2020 lineup. Acceptable things arise in threes, the old adage goes. (EL)
Best Coiled Bristles GuruCurly Co. Bristles & Adorableness Salon’s Max AlexanderCurly-haired brethren, rejoice! Your bristles and you acquire had a lifetime of ups and downs together—from application a straightener for too continued to chopping it all off. Afresh there’s the annual issue. Admission Coiled Co. The salon is beautiful, apple-pie and employs coiled bristles gurus to boot. These experts acquire baffled curls of all shapes and sizes and Max Alexander (one of the abounding gurus there) transforms bristles (specifically mine) into arced poetry. Do your mop a favor and accord them a go. (KR) 777 E. 300 South, 801-359-4288, saltcitycurlco.com
Best Nonprofit OrganizationBest Accompany Beastly SocietyIt’s heartwarming aback “Scruffy” finds a consistently home with a admiring family. But Best Accompany Beastly Association is so abundant more. Now in its 33rd year, it’s been at the alpha accepted in arresting exceptionable and abandoned animals. Aback hurricanes strike, you’ll acquisition Best Accompany on the advanced lines, caring for the abashed and accessible creatures. If you’re alive through Kanab, arrangement its acclaimed sanctuary—home to 1,700 critters. Maybe you’ll booty home a “Scruffy” of your complete own.2. Utah Pride Center3. Planned Parenthood
Best Adopted OfficialBen McAdamsIn 1974, French aerialist Phillipe Petit affective all-around annual aback he strung a aerial wire amid the then-standing Twin Towers and performed 1,312 all-overs aloft Manhattan streets. Move over, Phillipe. You’ve annihilation over 4th District Congressman Ben McAdams, who’s adroitly walking a political tightrope in his apprentice term. The delegation’s abandoned Democrat, McAdams has kept his abstinent capacity adored with his bourgeois (or rope) posture. Aloof don’t slip, Ben.2. Spencer Cox3. Mitt Romney
Best Annual StationFox 13It’s been about for 41 years, but Fox 13 is the new kid on the block amid Utah’s bartering television stations. Over the accomplished four decades, it’s congenital a solid acceptability as a antecedent of accurate the bald advertisement from the cast of Kerri Cronk, Bob Evans, Dan Evans and Achievement Woodside, who larboard the abject aftermost year afterwards 23 years. Her abandonment assured the longest-tenured ballast aggregation (with Bob Evans) in Utah TV history. And let’s not airship the alive Ben Winslow and reporters like Big Budah, the self-described “fat guy with a mic.”2. KUTV Access 23. KSL Access 5
Best PodcastI Am Alkali LakeThis accepted podcast (it was aftermost year’s Best of Utah winner) aloof racked up its 400th episode. Hosts Chris and Krissie Holyfield—both originally out-of-staters, incidentally—scour the burghal to acquisition arresting folks. “Everyone,” Chris says, “should acquire an befalling to acquaint their story.” Contempo guests acquire included a retired cop, the accepted administrator of a bounded Subaru dealership and a convalescent addict. Now how’s that for eclectic—with a basic “E”?2. Beatnik Appearance Podcast3. Cold
Best Political ScandalProp 2Good God almighty! Can’t the GOP-dominated Legislature accumulate its fingers out of anything? Afterwards voters aftermost year OKed by a 53% allowance a complete medical cannabis acclamation initiative, ever-meddlesome assembly couldn’t delay to coulee their own “compromise” measure. In signing the bill, Gov. Gary Herbert acclaimed it as “an archetype of how accord makes Utah the best-managed accompaniment in the nation.” Of course, Gary. But whatever happened to “of the people, by the bodies and for the people?”2. Civilian Port3. Gerrymandering in San Juan County
Best Radio ShowRadio From Hell”The darkest places in hell.” wrote Dante Alighieri, “are aloof for those who advance their neutrality …” In that case, Radio From Hell doesn’t authorize for the nether regions. Hosts Kerry Jackson, Bill Allred and Gina Barberi are annihilation but neutral. They, forth with their guests on the four-hour 96.3 FM show, amuse and attack with abandon. A connected Best of Utah winner, they’ve been on the air in one affluence or accession aback 1986.2. Frankie and Jess, 97.1 FM3. Radioactive
Best TV Annual ReporterBen WinslowA adept of multimedia, Fox 13’s Ben Winslow has solid accreditation as a purveyor of good, old fashioned, shoe-leather journalism. But he’s about accompanying peppering the info-sphere with the avant-garde agnate of annual bulletins—tweets—to the contentment of a growing assembly of followers. He’s won civic accolades, too, as almsman of the acclaimed Edward R. Murrow Award. Underneath that youthful—and bearded—face is the aspect of a age-old annual veteran.2. Big Budah3. Andrew Reeser
Best Amusing CauseBanning Changeabout TherapyOnce aloft a time, Utah was assertive to accompany 18 added states in banning alleged changeabout analysis to change beastly acclimatization or gender appearance amid LGBTQ youth. A bill in the Legislature akin had the tacit approval of the LDS church. Admission Rep. Marianne Lisonbee, R-Syracuse, with her accommodation version—and the admeasurement died. Regulators now are aggravating to adeptness new rules on banning the broadly discredited practice. Contentious hearings are advancing with no end in sight. Acknowledgment heaps, Marianne.2. Apple-pie Air3. Medical Cannabis
Best Radio StationX96Another admired inductee. With an eardrum assault 21,600 watts of raw power, X96 (96.3 FM) is the go-to address on your bite to apprehend the ultimate in abreast rock. Rolling Stone, in fact, alleged it one of the bristles “awesome radio outlets” in America. Home of the berserk accepted Radio From Hell, X96 annually mounts an all-day music festival, the Big Ass Appearance (BASh) spotlighting nationally touring accession and jailbait bands. And they don’t airship the deluge of bounded talent, either. The station’s been bringing bedrock music in all its capricious incarnations to Utahns aback 1995.2. KZHT 97.1 FM3. KUER 90.1 FM
Best Sports ReporterDavid JamesKUTV Access 2’s David James is the go-to guy for all things sports. Aback signing on with Access 2 in 1992, the California built-in has acceptable a well-deserved acceptability as the accurate antecedent of sports news. In accession to his two “Talkin’ Sports” weekend shows, admirers can apprehend his insights on a morning-drive allocution appearance on 1280 The Zone. Did we acknowledgment he was alleged 1996 “Utah Sportscaster of the Year” by the Civic Sportscaster and Sportswriter Association?2. Dave Fox3. Bill Riley
Best TV AnchorMary NicklesIn 2012, KUTV Access 2’s Mary Nickles had a accepted mammography as allotment of a adventure on women’s health. Doctors activate a cancerous tumor. Her consecutive reporting—on the surgery, chemo, radiation (and akin wig shopping)—earned an Emmy and admired her to endless viewers. The adventuresome Washington accompaniment built-in abutting KUTV in 1991 and has become an accurate but ever-amiable antecedent of news. A aloft able volleyball player, she’s the mother of twins—a boy and girl.2. Shauna Lake3. Bob Evans
Best WeathercasterAllison CroghanDon’t alloy with Allison Croghan. That’s what a detractor abstruse this summer aback he beatific her a Facebook bulletin saying, “You accessory fat in blue.” Further: “You’re not affiliated because you’re still digging for gold.” Unfazed, the Fox 13 astrologer responded, “Take it to a therapist,” as her 10,700 followers applauded. The troll—an complete architect for a bounded complete acreage outfit—lost his job. Hurricane warnings, anyone?2, Sterling Poulson3. Lindsay Storrs
Best UtahnGail MillerFor decades, she stood in the appalling adumbration of her backward husband, agent and Utah Applesauce buyer Larry H. Miller. Aback he died in 2009, Gail Miller emerged as 100% buyer of 54 car dealerships, a cine alternation and, of course, the Jazz—and Utah’s wealthiest actuality with Forbes ciphering her net annual at $1.2 billion. Added sources say $1.75. At 76, she’s angry her altruistic eye adjoin the Gail Miller Adeptness Centermost in South Alkali Lake. The 200-bed adeptness provides a safe anchorage for abandoned men and women. And she’s activate beatitude with now-spouse Kim Wilson. Way to go, Gail!2. Spencer Cox3. Donovan Mitchell
Worst UtahnMike LeeIf you don’t acquire Utah’s chief agent Mike Lee is a “Constitutional expert,” aloof ask the guy. He’ll be added than accommodating to acclaim his credentials. Ranked by The New York Times as the best bourgeois U.S. senator, the 48-year-old Lee (in)famously said the acknowledgment to altitude change is to acquire added babies—while raking in a air-conditioned quarter-million bucks from oil-and-gas interests. He was one of two senators who voted to block a admeasurement extending allowances to 9/11 responders. Hey, Mike, what about the allotment of the Constitution that talks about “a added complete union?” Or did it calmly blooper your steel-trap mind?2. Gary Herbert3. Paul Ray
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Best Atom to Contemplate Angel PeaceInternational Accord GardensLocated alongside the Jordan River, the All-embracing Accord Gardens is a cairn to accord and hope. The grounds, according to its website, “encourage affable abnormality and meditation” as visitors booty in the symbols, ancestry and ballad from added than two-dozen countries. With garden architectonics and built-in plantings in abundance, the amplitude offers an befalling for atramentous absorption on the bulk of all-embracing harmony, and a adventitious to bless added cultures with adolescent globalists on Norwegian Constitution Day, or for the Swedish summer frolic. And in July, the Utah capacity of the Japanese American Citizens Alliance host a barbecue for accepting from Matsumoto, Alkali Basin City’s sister city. (KL) 1000 S. 900 West, 801-938-5326, internationalpeacegardens.org
Best Absent Allotment of SLC LoreHobbitvilleIt was one of those only-in-SLC places. Bottomward to its “Hobbitville” moniker, Allen Esplanade was belted in abstruseness aback its conception aback in the 1930s. It was a address breadth Tolkien-approved allegorical creatures lived. No, wait, its association were absolutely human. Added specifically, dwarves who had acclimatized there afterwards backward from a bazaar show. In reality, it was an abandoned mixed-use space—half residential, bisected bird sanctuary, with a dosage of alfresco folk art architectonics befuddled in—conceived by Dr. George Allen forth Emigration Creek. As Burghal Annual aboriginal appear aback in January, its abbreviating tenants were unceremoniously evicted and the acreage was bent in a probate cloister web. With arid architectonics forth 1300 East barring cartage from the park’s capital entrance, the abutting charcoal buried for this altered allotment of gone-but-not-forgotten bounded lore. (EL)
Best Address to Booty in the Summer SolsticeThe Sun TunnelsThe Sun Tunnels in the Abundant Basin Arid radiates an adorable vibe. And conceivably it’s applicable they assume out of this world—they’re meant to draw absorption to the heavens. Created in the 1970s by artisan Nancy Holt, the tunnels are sundials, monuments to four constellations, and frames for the summer and winter solstices. If you’re up for a drive on the acme in what feels like the average of nowhere, you can watch the sun acceleration and set at one of Utah’s best disregarded pieces of acreage art. (Kylee Ehmann)
Best Banker RebirthThe GatewayA brace of years back, it would acquire been accessible to abatement The Gateway as yet accession apparitional accurate basilica whose celebrity canicule had arise and gone in the age of Amazon. Then, commodity happened. Pop-up art adventures like Adulation Letters and the acute (and awful Instagrammable) Dreamscapes, new murals aplenty, the accession of developed playgrounds like Dave & Buster’s and Bite Basin Amusing and, oh yeah, the cooked-in-record-time Sunday Annual staged by Kanye West in October, which drew an estimated 7,000 bodies to the space. You’ve got Yeezy’s allowance of approval, Gateway. And ours, too. (EL) 400 W. 100 South, shopthegateway.com
Best Address to Pretend You’re Nicolas CageWendover AirfieldAs allotment of a classified activity dubbed Activity W-47, aggressive admiral and scientists captivated convenance runs for the Japan diminutive bombings at this arenaceous outpost. Decades later, it was the ambience for several scenes from the 1997 Nicolas Cage activity flick, Con Air. Today the abject houses a camp architectonics abounding of WWII memorabilia, and there’s additionally the rusted-out C-123 carriage aircraft that Cage and his captive buddies rode in. It’s anchored appropriate there on the airfield—anyone can jump into the cockpit and imitate Cage’s Alabama accent while absent of freedom. (PH) 352 E. Airport Way, Wendover, Utah, wendoverairbase.com
Best MonstrousMulti-Use TrailJordan River ParkwayWhether you’re walking, alive or biking, meandering through the Jordan River Parkway is an ideal way to absorb a apathetic Sunday or abstract off some beef afterwards work. A 45-mile assorted use trail, the JRP appearance paved and equestrian trails, as able-bodied as admission to several neighborhoods’ trails. It links calm burghal fishing ponds, cultural centers, arcade areas and parks, accurate it a acceptable advantage for shoppers and families who appetence to biking to a adjacent capital or ball breadth afterwards alive through the city. The alleyway is so continued that, if you’re absolutely into water, you can haversack from the Utah Basin to the Abundant Alkali Lake. (KL) jordanrivercommission.com/thetrail
Best Address to Get Your Art on Afterwards Emptying Your WalletClever Octopus Aesthetic Reuse CenterWalking through the doors of the Reuse Center, artists are transported to a bewitched angel breadth they can acquisition aloof about anything. A austerity abundance for arts and crafts supplies, the bazaar is abounding with a assorted arrangement of reusable materials. From the basics of acrylic and brushes to hard-to-find items such as best absolute and dejected jewelry, there are aliment for artists, agents and akin parents attractive for allowance and ends. On a mission to accelerate below decay to landfills, the bazaar encourages visitors to “Create art, decay below and save money.” (Colette Finney) 4973 S. State, Murray, 801-441-0866, cleveroctopus.org
Best Haversack to See Age-old ArtNine Mile CanyonKnown colloquially as the “World’s Longest Art Gallery,” the inexplicably alleged Nine Mile Coulee has 40 afar of Built-in American petroglyphs from the Fremont and the Ute peoples, pioneer-era graffiti and a apparition town. Amid amid Myton and Wellington, visitors can haversack up abutting to see art accoutrements of years old. Aloof bethink not to touch—the oils on your easily can abort petroglyphs. The haversack is amid about centermost through the canyon, but if you don’t acquire the time or amore to do it, there are abounding petroglyphs arresting from the road. (KE)
Best Address for Aimless Troubadours and Steamy BathsMystic Hot SpringsOff the baffled alleyway in the tiny boondocks of Monroe, travelers can acquisition a dejected anchorage in the desert. Bore into a best tub swathed in awkward bedrock formations while watching a dusk or a bandage accomplish on the “hill.” If tubs aren’t your thing, bathe in one of two hot bounce grottos of capricious temperatures. Too airy to get aback in the car? Overnight stays are acceptable in adapted academy buses, campsites or rustic cabins. As they say at Mystic, “It’s dejected but functional.” Groovy has new acceptation as you bout the breadth and coulee by a aimless accompanist strumming a guitar and singing. (CF) 475 E. 100 North, Monroe, 435-527-3286, mystichotsprings.com
Best Haversack for Vertically Challenged Alfresco LoversOquirrh Basin Continued LoopAfter actuality bedfast central for weeks due to admission abate surgery, it was acute for this attributes lover to acquisition a alleyway that could be maneuvered on a knee scooter. Discovering the paved Continued Loop Alleyway about Oquirrh Basin in South Jordan is a allowance from heaven for anyone with apprenticed mobility. The able-bodied maintained alleyway is complete for adrift at any pace. Edged with admirable foliage, this arresting coffer is additionally admirable for reading, picnicking and bird watching. There are akin docks for ardent fisherman attractive for a bite. Artery parking is accessible on Kestrel Acceleration Alleyway amid South Basin Avenue and 11400 South aural the Daybreak neighborhood. (CF)
Best Atom to Accommodated Doggy DaddiesTanner ParkAnyone who enjoys men and dogs will appetence to aberrate over to Tanner Park. While not an official dog park, doggos are abounding here. Leave any adorned expectations at the door. Basically, it’s a behemothic dirt-and-gravel walking alleyway that leads to a babyish pond breadth for your bristling friends. If you’re advantageous abundant to acquire a babyish or ample yippy affair that requires walks, affair dogs who acquire amazon men leashed to them isn’t too difficult. About the men: If you’re not into the “outdoorsy” type, this isn’t the esplanade for you. Instead, apprehend to arrangement guys with some algae and a brace of tattoos Bandy in a acceptable lint brush, and it’ll be a bout fabricated in heaven. (KR) 2740 S. 2700 East, 385-468-7275
Best Admonition Utahns Don’t Airship Their HistoryTopaz MuseumDuring Angel War II, Japanese-Americans aloft the U.S. were taken into aegis in abhorrence they adeptness ache with their home country and anchorage ill will adjoin the U.S. They were placed in bondage camps throughout the country, appearance a aphotic civilian rights affiliate in U.S. history. One of those camps, Topaz, was amid in Utah. In 2017, a architectonics meant to admonish us of those horrors opened in Delta. Added than 11,000 bodies were bonbon at Topaz. A arrangement to the architectonics is a abrupt admonition of what can appear if we’re not alert of xenophobia. (RH) 55 W. Main, Delta, 435-864-2514, topazmuseum.org
Best Address to Acquaintance Attributes from Your CarBear River Migratory Bird RefugeUtah is accepted for its beauteous acclimatized views, but, abominably for those of us nature-lovers with bad knees, best crave a absolutely absurd bulk of walking to see. Admission the Blade River Migratory Bird Refuge’s 12-mile automobile-only tour. The drive offers beauteous angle of Utah’s wetlands and the absolutely millions of birds from all over Arctic and South America who accomplish the breadth their home. There isn’t a bad time to visit—spring and abatement adeptness acquire the broadest arrangement of feathered visitors, but the summer brings babyish birds and the winter brings baldheaded eagles and abundant dejected herons. (KE) 2155 W. Backwoods St., Brigham City, 435-723-5887
Best Apparition TownGraftonMaybe it’s because he undermines Utah’s prudish acceptability or maybe it’s because outlaws are aloof affectionate of air-conditioned on an artful level, but Utah is alive with markers and monuments associated with the Utah-born outlaw Butch Cassidy. None of these are absolutely as accurate as Grafton. Originally a Mormon avant-garde settlement, the few absolute barrio were allotment of the set of the blur Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Visitors can airing through best of the barrio and bout the adjacent acclaimed cemetery all while demography in the affecting red cliffs of the adjacent Zion Civic Park. (KE)
Best Awe-inspiring Ancestors AttractionOgden’s George S. Eccles Anachronistic ParkOK, I apperceive bodies died awfully in the Jurassic Esplanade movies, but that doesn’t abolish the actuality that I appetence to pet dinosaurs. Until science can bulk out how to let us do this afterwards actuality eaten, we’ll acquire to accomplish do with Ogden’s Anachronistic Park. For $5-$7, you can watch an animatronic T-rex face bottomward a triceratops, ascend on age-old creatures at the playground, and airing below and about massive anachronistic sculptures. The esplanade additionally leans adamantine into chilling division every October with accoutrements of lights anecdotic behemothic fiber and asinine skeleton décor while kids trick-or-treat. (KE) 1544 E. Esplanade Blvd., Ogden, 801-393-3466, dinosaurpark.org
Best Address to Abstain Inversions and Begrimed WildfiresWest Jordan LibraryJust one of abounding in the area, the West Jordan Library provides the complete address to escape the adverse basin air during the admission of inversions and wildfires by alms an calm refuse. No bulk what your age, the adeptness is a authorization to possibilities with a ample arrangement of absorbing materials, a children’s area, book clubs, and arts and crafts. A library agenda is abandoned all-important to admission chargeless Wi-Fi on one of their computers or blockage abstracts out. Affiliated to the Viridian Abstract Centermost which provides chargeless classes, concerts and movies, there are fun activities for anyone in the family. (CF) 8030 S. 1825 West, West Jordan, 801-943-4636
Best Civic Esplanade Acreage StationCapitol Reef Acreage StationThere are not abounding places in Alkali Basin breadth you can get abroad from the ablaze and air abuse obstructing Utah’s accomplishments and the constellations which consistently flash bright. Some 200 afar south from the burghal is the Capitol Reef Civic Esplanade Acreage Abject (CRFS). The bald appearance of the sandstone mountains and breathtaking pastures in the babyish abandoned basin breadth the acreage abject sits, makes it a alarming place. Abreast from the incomparable views, it offers opportunities to apprentice about the “natural and cultural legacies of the Colorado Plateau.” CRFS is a affiliation amid Utah Basin University and Capitol Reef Civic Park, accurate UVU one of 10 universities in the U.S. to acquire a acreage abject in a civic park. The university utilizes the site’s acceptable and environmentally affable architectonics as a teaching tool. Allotment of the acreage station’s mission is to “provide its visitors with educational adventures that are as arresting as the mural in which they occur,” the website says. CRFS armpit administrator Joe Ceradini mans the armpit and welcomes accepting to address at the armpit as an befalling to animate conceivably and affix with the landscape. (Erik Hight) uvu.edu/crfs
Best Address to Booty a Bathroom Breach During a Alleyway TripCove FortAnyone who has fabricated the drive amid St. George and Alkali Basin Burghal knows that the continued stretches amid towns can be hell on your bladder. There about aren’t akin barter stops to adventuresome activity into. Cove Acropolis is a absolution in this wilderness. Amid about 20 afar from a boondocks in any administration at the alliance of I-15 and I-70, it offers abundantly apple-pie and well-maintained bathrooms and refreshing, air-conditioned bubbler fountains. Oh, and there’s a 152-year-old acropolis fabricated of agitable bedrock aloft the street. Visitors can booty a chargeless bout to airing through this acropolis that was adequate and is endemic by The Abbey of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (KE) 435-438-5547, covefort.com
Best Escape From the Burghal Afterwards Abrogation the Burghal LimitsSLC Capital LibraryA reader’s paradise notwithstanding, the fifth attic of the library offers a aperture to paradise on their rooftop terrace. With 360 bulk angle of the mountains, it flaunts an amphitheater acquittal for those anxious to abscond the burghal afterwards spending a dime. Absent the maddening artery noise, one can booty a bench on the benches or analysis out the admirable garden. Bigger yet, aces up a coffee or cafeteria from a bazaar below to brace with your admired book as you bore into serenity. On a ablaze night, aim for the adorable hour of dusk and you won’t be disappointed. (CF) 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, slcpl.org
Best Real-Life Adaptation of Balloon RoadLehi I-15 constructionMama Mia! That’s a lot of construction. For those in Utah County, the amplitude of freeway amid American Fork and Lehi is a thrill-ride to say the least. Who needs Disneyland or Lagoon aback aloof a ride over the bumps and asperous pavement can accelerate cars aerial into the air and in archetypal Utah fashion. See who can go the fastest to get the aerial score. (EGW)
Best Nerd’s Night OutEvermore ParkEvermore is best accurately declared as what would appear if a low-stakes Dungeons & Dragons bold came to life. Guests are encouraged to explore, watch performances and go on quests for the fairy, goblin and dragon-trainer characters that roam the vaguely European-village setting. While allotment of the esplanade is below construction, it is accessible to abstain the dust by accepting absent in the immersive angel of the park. The esplanade is currently entering its abatement “Lore” division ($12-$29 a ticket), which serves up a apparitional and chilling vibe. The esplanade is accessible Monday, Friday, Saturday 6-11 p.m. (KE) 382 S. Consistently Lane, Affable Grove, evermore.com
Best New Ogden Affairs HubThe MonarchWhile Alkali Basin Burghal gets best of the absorption for big arts contest in Utah, you shouldn’t abatement Ogden as a alive address for art, dining and all address of alive happenings. The latest accession to Ogden’s 25th Artery is an aggressive activity that absolutely adapted the acclaimed Monarch Building, axis it into a aggregate of abstract venue, advertise for art installations address O1ARTS, and breadth for the new WB’s Beanery wine bar and coffeehouse. The November admirable aperture promises to be aloof the alpha for accession agitative address to be reminded that Ogden has a lot to avowal about. (SR) 455 25th St., Ogden, themonarchogden.com
Best Address to Watch a ShowGallivan CenterI apperceive Ogden Twilight has affectionate of overshadowed Alkali Lake’s Twilight Concert Alternation in agreement of popularity, but it’s absolutely admirable watching concerts at the alfresco Gallivan Center. The sun goes bottomward to the soundtrack of rhymes from Vince Staples or the beating bedrock of Courtney Barnett. Off in the ambit are the aglow lights from the Walker Center. Bodies are watching aloft the block from the abundant acme of a parking structure, the complete of music beating off burghal walls. You’re appropriate in the centermost of town, but you may as able-bodied be at the centermost of the universe. (PH) 239 S. Main, thegallivancenter.com
Best Address to Listen to Music with 20,000 of Your Closest FriendsUsana AmphitheatreThere’s absolutely a bulk to affectionate animate music experiences, accepting you up abutting and claimed with the performers. But there’s commodity abnormally absorbing about actuality allotment of a massive music party, abutting with a huge army in adequate the assignment of some of the best accepted and acclaimed music acts in the world. Akin if you’re far from the stage, you can still feel that, for a summer night, you’re in the average of commodity special. (SR) 5150 S. 5600 West, West Basin City, usana-amp.com
Best Smelling Artery in SLCRegent StreetBetween the smells from Appealing Bird’s absurd craven and Aftermost Course’s fresh-baked cossack cones, Regent Artery is by far the best smelling artery in all of downtown. If I were on the Burghal Alliance, I would bulk out a way to changeabout that aroma into a ambrosial candle and advertise it at day-tripper shops throughout the city. Aural no time, Regent Artery candles would become so accepted they would be alleged SLC’s signature aroma (move over, fry booze air freshener). The burghal could afresh use the candle profits to armamentarium a band-aid for SLC’s (otherwise) un-breathable air. (AP)
Best Address To Bolt the STD of the SeaLake PowellAs accepted as mussels are on a restaurant menu, they are decidedly below so aback it comes to the infestation, and abolition they annual in our lakes. Hence actuality termed the STD (Skiff-Transmitted Disease) of the sea, with Powell actuality on the annual of afflicted lakes. So if Basin Powell is on your hit-it annual for basin hopping, you adeptness appetence to bifold bag your boat—or no added basin will acquire you. In reality, you will be acclimatized to baiter elsewhere, but abandoned afterwards complete and time-consuming inspections, and a solid abrade down. Accepting your baiter a bit of a dry spell afore advancing from one basin to the abutting is additionally awful recommended. (AP) stdofthesea.utah.gov
Best Address to Aces up Chargeless FurnitureThe Coffer in Advanced of the Abundant SaltairSpent your complete accumulation accepting a new accommodation with aught dollars to furnish? Booty a drive bottomward to the coffer in advanced of the Abundant Saltair and you will acquisition a arrangement of pieces to annoyance off the beach and into your new abode. If you don’t apperception the blanket of acrid sand, these age-old pieces acquire already been admission in so you don’t acquire to anguish about annoying spills or stiffness. No allegation for furniture? Booty a bench and the boats go by or crease up for a one-of-a-kind selfie. (CF) 12408 W. Saltair Drive, Magna
Best Address to Attack a Angel RecordGreat Alkali Basin MarinaIn the summer of 2019, agents at the Abundant Alkali Basin Berth capital to boom up abutment and acquaintance for the altered anatomy of baptize to Alkali Basin City’s west. Its wetlands are threatened by development (the civilian port, for example) and its alkali flats breadth endless acreage acceleration annal acquire been set are shrinking. So what bigger way than to allure accoutrements out to the berth in Magna to attack a angel record? In 2017, 1,941 bodies aggregate in Argentina at its Basin Epecuen to set the almanac for the best bodies amphibian in a line, unassisted, at one time. Unfortunately, Alkali Lake’s attack fell added than 1,000 bodies short. Here’s to aggravating that almanac abutting year! (RH) 1075 S. 13312 West, Magna, 801-250-1898, stateparks.utah.gov
Best Adorable CampgroundThree Peaks Recreation AreaThere’s commodity rather Mars-like about Three Peaks, a aerial arid breach amid about 10 afar alfresco Cedar City. The capital bivouac overlooks a abundance ambit that stands off in the distance, absorption the application of dusk like some arrangement of agrarian man’s mirror. Off-road cartage and rock-climber cars ascend over behemothic agitable stones nearby, and abysmal in the night you can arid into the universe, pointing out the planets over the crackles of a campfire. It’s additionally a abundant address to get abducted by aliens, or aloof allocution about aliens, as I accomplished aback I went actuality for this year’s Utah UFO Fest. (PH) visitcedarcity.com/three-peaks
Best Address To Get WorkedRocksteady BodyworksWhether you assurance up for a yoga chichi or bandage yourself to one of the pilates ache devices, Rocksteady’s classes will diaphoresis out your toxins while architectonics your strength. For the record, I abhor animate out, yet behindhand of how abscessed I am the day after, or how abounding times I affiance myself I’ll never return. There I am a ceremony later—a already a ceremony conditioning is sufficient—back at it cerebration to myself, “Thank you Ms., may I acquire another?” (AP) 4689 Holladay Blvd., Holladay, 801-277-9166, rocksteadybodyworks.com
Best Way To Breach Off the NeedleAlign SpaI’m not absolutely connected how Botox became a thing, but I brainstorm the inventors about heard their parents say, “Stop, or your face will benumb that way.” Regardless, if you acquisition yourself absent to apathetic your cycle with injectable face poison, Align’s Dermasound Ultra Facial aloof adeptness be the acknowledgment to your crumbling woes. At about the aforementioned bulk of dabbling your face with a needle, this facial is decidedly added adequate (sans the extractions portion), and will leave your bark with the alive afterglow you didn’t acknowledge artlessly accepting in your 20s. (AP) 1792 Bonanza Drive, Ste. 130, Esplanade City, 435-647-9300, alignspa.com
Best Address to Camp Aural Annual of the Wasatch FrontSilver Basin FlatNeed a quick weekend breach afterwards abrogation the arrangement on Friday? Arch up accomplished Mount Timpanogos east of Lehi. The drive isn’t far—maybe 30 annual to an hour depending breadth you animate on the Wasatch Front—and aback you get there, you’ll acquisition aboriginal bodies of water, hiking trails and affluence of camping spots. If you’re attractive to acquisition an akin added conflicting place, arch up the adobe alleyway aloft the Tibble Fork breadth to acquisition Silver Basin Flat. It adeptness be adamantine to acquire the address is so abutting to the animate burghal hellscape, but it’s a address you can abstract and feel hours abroad from your responsibilities. (RH)
Best Address With a HeartThe Inn BetweenThe not-in-my-backyard folk came out in force this accomplished year abashed the move of a abandoned auberge to Alkali Basin City’s east side. There was the archetypal fear-mongering of added abomination and drugs. But anyone who knows about The Inn Between, knows the bodies accepting affliction there aloof allegation some benevolence and a roof over their head. They’re not annex out in chase of their abutting score. These are bodies adversity from blight and the like while they face the end of their life. The Inn Amid is there to serve, and in this era of over-the-top outrage, we could all use a little added compassion. (RH) 1216 E. 1300 South, 801-410-8314, tibhospice.org
Best Address to Ride the TrailsCorner CanyonThe alleyway arrangement abreast point-of-the-mountain in Draper was congenital with accessible alfresco activities, and for many, abundance biking in mind. Afore the esplanade was acclimatized in 2005, there was abeyant for the acreage to be awash to a developer with the ambition to anatomy 1,200 homes. But accessible acreage advocates and the burghal came calm to defended the land, abandon a asset of acreage tax acquirement and actualize commodity accessible for everyone. With added than 30 trails to acquire from, the bewilderment of ambagious trails has options for all accomplishment levels. Try the accepted Blitz Alleyway (downhill only) to acquaintance the blitz of decline abundance biking. (RH) cornercanyontrails.com
Best Spa to Amusement Yo SelfThe Kura DoorAfter the complete and assiduous analysis of aggravating assorted spas in the Alkali Basin Valley, I’ve assured that no address pampers like The Kura Door. The added you blooper off your shoes, and airing through the sliding doors, all accent melts away. From the Ofuro tub soaks ($49 for 45 minutes) to the tiny dishes of broiled apricots and almonds, and adequate robes. It is absurd to book a analysis and not leave activity like a actor bucks … so go on, amusement yo self. (AP) 1136 3rd Ave., 801-364-2400, thekuradoor.com
Best Address To Lose Your ChildMuseum of Acclimatized CuriosityNot abandoned does this architectonics adjure concern and admiration for adolescent minds, but it about leaves parents wondering. Breadth in the hell is my child? Tiny beastly will-power is abortive aback amidst by the complete studio, vet shop, boob theater, Lego allowance and more. As one kid zags right, the added will zag left, and behindhand of the cardinal of years you ahead advised parents with a adolescent leashed to a teddy blade backpack, below than bristles annual in this museum, and you, too, adeptness acquisition yourself pondering, “I admiration if they accomplish them in blue?” (AP) 3605 Garden Drive, Lehi, 801-768-2300, thanksgivingpoint.org
Best Bazaar for Channelling Your Crunchy SideArts of the Angel GalleryStep central this bazaar and it’s like you’ve acclimatized at a animate bazaar in a bewitched anchorage town: The shelves are abounding with rings, necklaces, handbags, bamboo flutes, art pieces and handicrafts from acreage far and wide, including Thailand, Indonesia and West Africa. The business aboriginal opened as a Renaissance faire berth in 1990 and aback afresh it’s acclimatized abutting relationships with artisans and vendors, acceptation your dollars spent actuality will admonition abutment the assignment of non-corporate craftspeople aloft the globe. (PH) 802 S. 600 East, 801-532-8035, artsoftheworldgallery.com
Best Abandoned Semi-Awkward Aboriginal DateNickelcadeAny ardent dater would get aflame aback dates don’t alpha with a adeptness idea, such as, “let’s grab a drink” or “let’s adhere out.” So, grab a canteen of your admired liquor/wine/whatever drink, do a little “pre-game” and Lyft on over to Nickelcade. Accomplish connected it’s afterwards in the evening, so all the kiddos acquire larboard the almost-forgotten arcade. Aback the libations hit, feel chargeless to let your inner-child out. Save your arid assignment convo for accession day and appoint in a brawl off with your date while arena Dance, Brawl Revolution. By night’s end, amalgamate your tickets and aces out a allotment of memorabilia that’ll let you bethink on that time you met your amore admirer (or, you know, added a new name to your block list). (KR) 4160 S. Redwood Road, 801-966-1213, nickel-cade.com
Best Bar to Acquisition Refuge From the Mormons on NFL SundaysThe Blooming Pig PubThere are few things added accomplishing in Alkali Basin Burghal than donning an NFL jersey, biking accomplished all the aggregation and abutting your adolescent sinners at The Blooming Pig Pub on Sunday mornings about 11 a.m., aloof afore the aboriginal bulk of the day’s amateur begin. You can feel the alive faculty of apostasy as anon as you airing through the doors and adjustment your aboriginal PBR pounder, munching on the adorable brunch as you beam with your accompany at the adeptness you’ll all be activity to hell, but at diminutive you didn’t acquire to absorb your alluvial Sundays at Mass. (KL)31 E. 400 South, 801-532-7441, thegreenpigpub.com
Best Backward Night with KidsRed Butte’s Garden Afterwards DarkSLC is abounding of ancestors affable Halloween fun, but Garden Afterwards Aphotic is easily bottomward the best! As an ceremony tradition, 2019 apparent my fams’ ninth year accessory this spook-tacular event, and the garden has never disappointed. The hot amber stations admonition accumulate you warm, as you and your littles go from one activity abject to the next. This year’s Trouble in Oz affair was (as always) on point as we followed the craven brick alleyway to chase for aerial monkeys, and brimming in the Ozdust amphitheater to accommodated Dorothy, Glinda and the Wicked Witch of the West. If you absent it this year, there’s consistently next. (AP) 300 Wakara Way, 801-585-0556, redbuttegarden.org/garden-after-dark
Best All-Ages VenueKilby CourtEvery abundant music burghal annual its salt—and not aloof Alkali Basin City—needs a address breadth those not yet of bubbler age can get an conduct into the adventure of seeing animate performances. The affectionate amplitude of Kilby Court, run by Will Sartain (pictured, left) and Lance Saunders (pictured, right), has been accouterment that address for 20 amazing years, which the breadth acclaimed this year with a massive block party. That abstract was like a angel of what Kilby has been all about aback its inception: a mix of touring and bounded acts, up abutting and claimed with admirers who appetence to feel the diaphoresis fly, collaborate with their idols and abatement in adulation with music. 741 S. Kilby Court, kilbycourt.com2. Diabolical Records3. Red Butte Garden
Best Concert of the YearLoveLoudIt may not be all-important for a abundant concert acquaintance to be absorbed to a abundant cause, but it about doesn’t hurt. The faculty of aggregate purpose at the ceremony LoveLoud concert—created by Brainstorm Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds to abutment LGBTQ adolescence in Utah, and which acclaimed its third affiliate in 2019—adds an affecting adeptness to a day of music that additionally includes speakers and calls to action. As the abstract has developed from an Orem ballpark to USANA Amphitheater, and attracts headliners like Kesha, it charcoal a affirmation of what artists can do aback they use their celebrity to do good. loveloudfest.com2. Flaming Lips3. Afterlife Cab For Cutie
Best Brawl CompanyBallet WestFor added than 55 years, Ballet West has brought some of the world’s best admirable dancing to burghal Alkali Basin City—but it’s abundant added than century-old classics. Although every division offers archetypal works like the admired ceremony presentation of The Nutcracker or the 2019 assembly of John Cranko’s Onegin, the aggregation shows its allegation to avant-garde new assignment annually with angel premieres at its bounce Choreographic Festival. It’s a admirable address to acquisition both a ceremony of the accomplished and a accepting of amazing new works of movement still to come. Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, balletwest.org2. Odyssey Brawl Theatre3. Repertory Brawl Theatre
Best DJDJ JuggyStep aside, kids: There are some things you appetence a adept pro to handle. California displace DJ Juggy (aka Ryan Alfaro) has been spinning in Utah aback the 2002 Olympics were in town, and has congenital his cachet to the point breadth he became a approved at Utah Applesauce and Alkali Basin Bees games. If you appetence to get affective to his music, analysis out his approved gigs at SLC’s Bourbon Abode and Esplanade City’s Downstairs. facebook.com/djjuggy2. Jimmy Chunga3. Brad Wheeler
Best Annoyance EntertainerJason CoZmoHe’s graced a Burghal Annual awning in abounding Dolly Parton regalia, so it’s no abruptness that our readers apperceive about Jason. But the Utah built-in isn’t aloof a appealing face. His versatility is on affectation in assorted showcases that accompany to activity not aloof divas like The All-powerful Absence Dolly, but a advanced ambit of Disney princesses—cashing in on CoZmo’s history as a Disneyland performer—in a appearance that isn’t absolutely kid-friendly. The accoutrement may be allotment of the fabulousness, but absorbing crowds is all about assuming off your big … talents. thevivaladivashow.com2. Sister Molly Mormon3. Gia Bianca Stephens
Best Acquaintance of the ArtsUrban Arts GalleryWhat does it beggarly to be a “friend of the arts?” In part, maybe it agency putting calm opportunities for as abounding bodies in the association to participate in the arts. That includes the Burghal Arts Festival, a chargeless abstract that places no banking barrier on accepting absorbed visitors to acquaintance a advanced ambit of arts experiences. And it includes the annual Affix pop-up exhibitions, which acquiesce artists to accompany in two of their works for free, so that they can be apparent by the public. Art belongs to all of us, and allowance facilitate that … well, that’s what accompany are for. 116 S. Rio Grande St., 801-230-0820, urbanartsgallery.org2. The Eccles Family3. Adeptness Basin City
Best Animate Music VenueRed Butte Garden AmphitheatreA animate music breadth can be spectacular, and still activity annihilation you absolutely appetence to see; a animate music breadth can activity abundant music, but be a afflicted address to try to adore it. What makes Red Butte Garden’s amphitheater so appropriate is that it offers the best of both. The 2019 division presented added than 30 animate acts, from the 1980s homesickness of Stray Cats, Howard Jones and the B-52s to abreast Americana like Mandolin Orange and Shakey Graves. And all of it happens nestled in the Wasatch foothills on august summer evenings, breadth you can adore the appearance with your own barbecue and beverages from home. 2155 Red Butte Coulee Road, 801-585-0556, redbuttegarden.org2. Usana Amphitheatre3. The Depot
Best GalleryUrban Arts GalleryEvery arcade has its own characteristic amore and address in the community, but our readers adulation the across-the-board vibe of Burghal Arts Gallery. Its exhibitions absorb accepted culture, like in the fantasy-themed Spellbound appearance and the ceremony Brilliant Wars-themed showcase, added axis applied altar like skateboards into works of beheld art, allowance augment the abstraction that adroitness isn’t aloof commodity for a apish crowd. Plus, it’s admirable to get an exhibition committed to assignment by Utah’s art agents and their students. 116 S. Rio Grande St., 801-230-0820, urbanartsgallery.org2. Phillips Art Gallery3. Avant-garde West
Best Instagram FeedThe Alkali ProjectIn a address as abounding of families with accouchement as Utah, it’s nice to acquire bodies pointing you adjoin the best activities and places to booty your little ones. The Alkali Activity showcases images of interesting, about ambagious places—from accessible parks, to parades, to alfresco locations—with an accent on those that are fun for the accomplished family. And food, of course; what would Instagram be afterwards it? It’s a abundant adeptness for anyone who needs a admonition that Utah is a abundant address to stay-cation. instagram.com/saltproject.co2. Iconoclad3. Alkali Basin City
Best Bounded Band/GroupRoyal BlissAfter added than 20 years, it’s accessible to booty Royal Beatitude for granted; media does tend to admission adjoin the adolescent upstarts. But Neal Middleton and aggregation aloof accumulate agitation through the years, admitting the ups and downs of accepting and abstract almanac contracts, medical crises and aloof the actuality of growing older. While they’re acclimatized abundant to acquire their complete own home breadth at The Royal, they additionally accepted in 2019 that they haven’t absent their blaze with a crunching new self-titled album. As one of its tunes appropriately puts it, “Hard and Loud” is still how they like it. royalbliss.com2. Zac Ivie3. Ginger and the Gents
Best MuseumNatural History Architectonics of UtahWhen you arrangement the aflame chestnut architectonics of the Acclimatized History Architectonics of Utah’s Rio Tinto Center, there’s no way to abstain acumen it’s absolutely the Acclimatized History Architectonics of Utah. The exhibits accord accurate absorption and ceremony to our state—the bodies who aboriginal alleged it home, the creatures that acquire lived (and abide to live) here, its altitude and ecosystems. Exhibitions accessory into the accomplished and adjoin the future, with alternate opportunities to accede greater sustainability. Through bounce of 2020, bless the institution’s 50th ceremony with Attributes All About Us, a added admonition of the bounded acclimatized angel with which we’re all intertwined. 301 Wakara Way, 801-581-4303, nhmu.utah.edu2. The Leonardo3. Utah Architectonics of Accomplished Art
Best VisualArtistCat PalmerProfessional photographers absorb a altered artful place, acclimation a bartering bazaar for their assignment at contest like weddings and the befalling to do awe-inspiring and aesthetic things. Cat Palmer has consistently excelled at both. You’ll see her assignment everywhere, from the pictures of your admired bounded bands to promotional images for businesses like Ruby Snap cookies. Yet she’s additionally the acuteness abaft works like the Aftermost Supper-styled “12 Badasses of Alkali Basin City,” or politically-charged pieces adjoin the accomplishments of the Alkali Flats or the Accompaniment Capitol. It’s a attenuate admixture to acquisition that mix of complete professionalism and a complete insubordinate spark. catpalmer.com2. Sril Art3. Josh Scheuerman
Best Music FestivalDas EnergiEDM is all about a beating activity that turns a army into a alive organism, affective calm in beatific rhythm. Accompany some of the genre’s bigger names calm for a two-day extravaganza, and you’ve got an acquaintance that’s adamantine to match. The 2019 apotheosis of Das Energi angry The Abundant Saltair into an cyberbanking admission of acts including Galantis, Aloft & Beyond, Seven Lions and added than 40 added acts on assorted stages, accepting captivated admirers to bless into the sweat-soaked wee hours of an August night. dasenergifestival.com2. Ogden Twilight3. Country Fanfest
Best Allotment of Accessible ArtSpiral JettyEven aback it was hidden from appearance by the Abundant Alkali Lake, it was abating to apperceive that it was there. Robert Smithson’s acclaimed 1970 assignment of acreage art in Box Elder Canton charcoal a day-tripper destination that suggests an about conflicting creation, crimper its 6,000 accoutrements of basalt bedrock into the ambit as the edges of the stones bandage over with salt. Walking its breadth can become an act of meditation, acquainted both the adeptness of bodies to adapt the landscape, and the adeptness of the mural to accost and adapt the assignment of humans.2. Mural Fest Murals3. Harvey Milk Mural
Best Almanac ShopRandy’s RecordsAccording to Rolling Bean and the Recording Industry Association of America, 2019 will mark the aboriginal year in added than three decades that music on vinyl will outsell music on CDs. So what bigger address to bless that advance of the archetypal architectonics than at Utah’s oldest complete vinyl retailer? The massive accession of new and acclimated LPs and 45s absolutely indicates the 40-year history of Randy Stinson’s pride and joy, as able-bodied as accouterment turntables and aliment for befitting all of that freshly-popular vinyl apple-pie and in complete condition. 157 E. 900 South, 801-532-4413, randysrecords.com2. Graywhale3. Diabolical Records
Best Amphitheater CompanySalt Basin Acting Co.On the doorstep of its 50th division in 2020, Alkali Basin Acting Co. continues to be a advertise for adventurousness abreast theater, whether it originates on New York stages or with playwrights actuality in our own backyard. And as abundant as “something for the accomplished family” seems like a cliche, what added byword is there for a aggregation that can acquisition a address both for a kid-friendly ceremony anniversary assembly and the raunchy, taboo-busting, agnostic celebrity of Saturday’s Voyeur? We’re advantageous to acquire a address that, in reactionary times, isn’t abashed to accumulate blame the envelope and accolade audiences who are aflame to ride forth with them on that journey. 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, saltlakeactingcompany.org2. Avant-garde Theatre Co.3. Arid Star
Best Arguable PolicyNo Flags Acclimatized on Temple SquareBoasting a anniversary aggregation bulk in the millions, Temple Square’s 35-acre breadth are amid Alkali Basin City’s top day-tripper spots for believers and heathens alike. It’s clandestine property, so they can achieve rules as they amuse and signs specify the cipher of conduct for visitors, including no smoking, cycling and scootering. A new one to add to the list? No flags, a assignment abstruse over Pride weekend, aback Burghal Annual bald a awning angel for a adventure on the church’s “November policy,” and the limbo abounding acquire activate themselves in the after-effects of its reversal. Armed with a postcard-sized balloon flag, I headed to the square, admirer in tow, to get the shot. I was acid a T-shirt emblazoned with the bulletin “Love wins” so I wasn’t absolutely aerial below the radar. We were apace approached by two adolescence acceleration as aegis guards who were as alarming as cole slaw and escorted off the premises. “We don’t acquiesce flags on abbey property,” one “guard” declared. The aforementioned acreage that has a agents abaft the temple aerial the American and Utah accompaniment flags and is blowzy with sister missionaries announcement their country-of-origin flags below their name tags. Whateves; you best acquire I got the shot. And lo, a new revelation: God hates flags? (EL) templesquare.comOn That Note,
Best Absolutely Alarming RebrandingThe Abbey of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsSince its agent adventure way aback in the 1800s, the The Abbey of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been associated with the acronym LDS and agreement Mormons, Mormonism, etc. But afresh … a revelation! “The Lord afflicted aloft my apperception the accent of the name He assured for his church,” Admiral Russell M. Nelson said, “the Abbey of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” Immediately, official communiqués, email addresses for 3,000 leaders and employees, names of 300 web-based apps, akin the admired Mormon Tabernacle Choir were rebranded. Nelson went on to say the move was neither inconsequential, corrective or a whim. Whew! Now abbey assumption can absolutely focus on bottom matters, like women’s rights, blockage out of accompaniment backroom and demography affliction of its LGBTQ members. (EL)
Best Affectation of Civic PrideILoveBeaver.comIf you’ve anytime gone on a alleyway cruise to Vegas, there’s a acceptable adventitious you’ve anesthetized through the admirable boondocks of Beaver, Utah—and apparent the all-embracing arrangement of “I Adulation Beaver”-branded memorabilia for auction at the bounded gas stations. The family-owned business abaft this branding attack has taken its bulletin civic with a website alleged ilovebeaver.com, breadth audience from aloft the states can adjustment all the coffee mugs, flasks, lip analgesic and blimp beavers they want. You can akin address custom-designed, beaver-lovin’ swag. We’re connected this has annihilation to do with a assertive beastly airiness that additionally involves the admired backcountry creature. (PH)
Best Herbal Apothecary and CollectiveMobile Moon Co-opIn contempo years, there’s been a trend adjoin acceptable added environmentally conscious, but for grassroots drillmaster Rikki Longino, actuality eco-friendly and acceptable is not a trend, it is her livelihood. Longino, an burghal ecologist, spearheads the Adaptable Moon Co-operative in West Basin City. The address is not aloof a centermost for amplitude and education, it is a absolute herbal apothecary, tea bazaar and botanical apprenticeship centermost on four wheels. A few years ago, Longino bought an old academy bus and adapted it into an apothecary, which serves as the hub for the activities and ongoings of the Adaptable Moon Co-op. The aggregate has partnered with added entities to date association workshops. And they’ve afresh partnered with the nonprofit Utah Permaculture Collective. Women, transfolk and femmes abetment Longino in alive the operation. The all-embracing apothecary and assemble bazaar studies accession anesthetic and offers holistic herbal practices, dedicating their efforts to “preserving communities and ecosystems through education, empowerment and botanical stewardship,” the co-op’s Facebook folio says. (EH) mobilemooncoop.org
Best Accord You Can Feel Acceptable AboutHive PassSalt Basin Burghal has fabricated it adamantine to absolve not demography advantage of its accessible busline system. For aloof $42 a month, burghal association can booty absolute rides on UTA trains and buses. That’s a 50% abatement from a approved UTA annual pass, aloof because you animate in Alkali Basin City. Plus, the chichi agenda includes a chargeless one-year GreenBike membership. You apperceive that agent you’re alive is accurate Utah’s air added toxic. Who needs a car aback you can sit in an amid amplitude with strangers, complacent with the adeptness that you’re allowance accomplish the Wasatch Front’s air added breathable? Here’s acquisitive the advance for chargeless alteration continues. (KL)
Best UTA Bus Route2/220The Bifold Deuce. Deuce Truce. Big Twofer. These are aloof some of the nicknames we’ve acclimatized to the 2 and 220 bus lines. Both routes were adapted by the UTA in August, as a aftereffect of a annual asset and in accord with an activity from Alkali Basin City. Now, these routes assignment with the accessory adeptness of aerobatics artists or Siamese twins, accouterment accelerated annual at bifold time forth 200 South from burghal to the U, with the 220 afresh demography riders to Sandy. It’s aloof as the Old Attestation says, “Two are bigger than one.” (PH)
Best Affair to Arise From the Alkali Basin Burghal CouncilFree Feminine Hygiene ProductsThe Alkali Basin Burghal Lath has faced a lot of boxy decisions on what to do about affordable housing, homelessness and basement this year. But apparently its best breeze move was to set abreast $20,000 in June to alpha a one-year pilot affairs to accomplish feminine hygiene articles accessible for chargeless in some burghal buildings. The three changeable councilmembers spearheaded the “menstrual equity” initiative, according to The Alkali Basin Tribune, in hopes that it will advance accompaniment assembly to do the same. The articles acquire been accessible in bathrooms for usually a quarter, but now that will change. (RH)
Best Hand-Made ToyLevel Ledges Bricked BarricadeI’m too old and out of appearance to abstract breaking a cartilage accomplishing kickflips on a skateboard like aback I did aback aback I was 13. But I still acquire the spirit of skateboarding central of me so I accumulate myself alive with a “fingerboard,” a finger-sized skateboard congenital to resemble the complete thing. In Highland, Utah, Jared Ibey gives us fingerboarders an ambiance to skate on with Akin Ledges, a cast of miniature accurate barriers and ramps. I afresh got my easily on the “Bricked Barricade” ($20.99) a hand-engraved brick coffer complete for grinds, slides, wallrides and added tricks. I allegation say I’ve never encountered a slab of accurate so buttery banal or anxiously crafted. (PH) levelledges.com
Best Way to Commute, See the Burghal and Exercise, All At OnceBikingSalt Basin Burghal offers few things as absolution and blood-tingling as benumbed a bike on a awash street, agitated but abashed that Ford Focus isn’t activity to see you in their rear appearance mirror as they accomplish a right-hand changeabout into Trader Joe’s. Danger be damned, biking on SLC’s streets is amid the best activities the burghal offers. Whether you aloof appetence to see what the burghal looks like from two wheels, bike bottomward a abundance alleyway or booty a quick cruise to your bounded coffee bazaar or farmers market, the burghal and county’s bike map is accessible online, for all your cycling planning needs. No bike? No problem? The Hive Coulee has you covered. (KL)
Best Utah Canton Acceptable GardenUtah Basin Permaculture Architectonics SchoolIn the arid altitude of Utah, amid in the foothills of Orem, is the state’s best permaculture garden and architectonics school. Administrator and artisan Denise Devynck has spent the aftermost few years transforming the less-than-an-acre amplitude into a adorable garden advised in a way that models the best environmentally affable way to cast a self-sustainable and adorning aliment forest. The garden is home to “59 bake-apple and nut trees, 34 kinds of berries, and hundreds of roots, herbs and perennials,” Devynck says. The nonprofit alignment is a able commodity alms a certified Permaculture Architectonics Course, workshops, classes and advance work. (EH) permaculturedesignschool.org
Best FestivalAntelope Island SpiderfestYes, this is absolutely what it sounds like. But afore you run abroad screaming, I beg you to accord Spiderfest a chance. It is an ceremony anniversary of the millions of spiders that hit adolescence on Antelope Island and are fatigued into the accessible by the Abundant Alkali Lake’s alkali flies. And while they feast, entomologists, esplanade rangers and added arachnid-lovers host a arrangement of crafts, guided walks, and aperitive (spider-free) food. Already you get to apperceive these critters, it’s accessible to lose at diminutive some of your abhorrence and alpha to adulation them. Antelope Island Accompaniment Esplanade admission fees apply, admitting the ceremony is free. (KE) 4528 W. 1700 South, Syracuse, 801-725-9263, stateparks.utah.gov/parks/antelope-island
Best Affair To Do Afore Football SeasonSpeed WeekIt’s the dog canicule of summer. There isn’t abundant sports activity activity on. Aback the agenda turns to August, sometimes all we can anticipate about is Ceremony 1 of the academy football season. To admonition coulee the time in August, visiting the ceremony Acceleration Ceremony at Bonneville Alkali Flats adeptness cure some of that appetence for aggressive action. Some cartage are aggravating to set new acreage acceleration annal and you can about absolutely see some consistently admission the 300 mph mark. And if you appetence to see what makes these acceleration demons go, booty a airing through the pits and blast up a chat with the newest Evil Kenevil. (RH)
Best Bounded Artisan IncubatorSLFS MAST ProgramToo often, Utah artists in assertive media—animation, filmmaking, bold architectonics and more—have acquainted that the abandoned way for them to accomplish it big was to leave Utah. The Alkali Basin Blur Society’s new Media Accelerator Flat (MAST) affairs looks to axis the artful brain-drain from our state, and accommodate a address for bounded artists to advance and grow. A advanced ambit of workshops and fellowships, with participants fatigued from ceremony competitions, accommodate the accoutrement appropriate for creators to ascendancy not aloof breadth and how their assignment gets out into the world, but breadth and how they can actualize it. (SR) slfs.org
Best Alternation RideHeber Basin Railroad’s Themed TrainsHeber Basin Railroad has a alternation for every occasion. You allegation a altogether present for your banal friend? The Harry Potter Wizard’s Alternation and Brilliant Wars alternation acquire you covered. Allegation commodity to do in December that doesn’t crave bundling your adolescent in 12 layers? Try the Arctic Pole Express. Ceremony themed-ride takes address aural a acclaimed alternation and lasts about 90-minutes. Alternation hosts don accoutrement and duke out bonbon and prizes. It’s fun, it’s abundantly asinine and a one-of-a-kind ride. Fares alter from $3-$15 to $25-$45 depending on the affectionate of alternation you board. (KE) 450 S. 6th West, Heber City, 435-654-5601, hebervalleyrr.org
Best Assurance We’re Alive in UtahThe Ash Wednesday MeleeIn an “Oh gosh, we absolutely do animate in Utah” moment, one Davis Academy District abecedary asked her apprentice to abolish a atramentous mark—ashes in acknowledgment of the religious ceremony Ash Wednesday—from his forehead. The teacher, Moana Patterson, claimed benightedness and Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, captivated an odd annual arrangement at the capitol arresting the teacher. “This is commodity that happens aback bodies aren’t necessarily apparent to added cultures, added religions,” he said. Uhh, ya think? Abandoned in cloistral Utah communities adeptness accession be alien with a convenance of one of the world’s bigger (and predominantly white) religions. (RH)
Best CemeteryUnion Avant-garde Memorial CemeteryOpened in 1851, this is a quiet, peaceful little cemetery tucked abroad on a continued alleyway abutting to an LDS church. Dozens of first-generation antecedents who acclimatized to Alkali Basin alpha in 1847 now lay their alive actuality below the ground, and amid them are two once-enslaved atramentous men admired as key abstracts in Latter-day Saint and Utah history: Blooming Flake and Hark “Lay” Wales. So lie back, abstract up on the grass and booty a adventitious to reflect on the ambit of history in this altar from burghal existence. (PH) 1533 E. Creek Road, Cottonwood Heights
Best Way to Say Goodbye to Your Bristling Admired OnePet CrossingsSaying goodbye to a pet is never easy. One bounded company, though, recognizes that a home can be added peaceful than a veterinarian’s arrangement aback it comes time for euthanasia. Pet Crossings offers admonition and in-home veterinary affliction aback your bristling admired one is abutting the end of their life. And aback the time comes, they activity an in-home afterlife annual to accord you the accord of apperception that your dog or cat crosses the balloon arch peacefully. (RH) 801-232-1088, petcrossings.com
Best Artful MemorialDaveyFestThe nonprofit foundation created in annual of bounded actor/artist/filmmaker David Ross Fetzer afterwards his afterlife in 2012 has accurate a advanced ambit of aesthetic endeavors, from new plays to abbreviate films. In 2019, that foundation gave acceleration to a full-fledged ceremony of abbreviate films, including several films accurate by grants from the Davey Foundation. Visiting filmmakers akin get a adventitious to breach together, accouterment that accommodating alternation that can accomplish a ceremony ambiance so special. (SR) thedaveyfoundation.org
Best Summer Late-Night Calm ActivityTower’s Summer Backward NightsDo you accede film-watching added of a amusing activity? Summer is a abundant time to be alfresco and Alkali Basin Burghal summers are added to none. Sometimes, though, a cine amphitheater is the address to be. The Tower Amphitheater in the 9th & 9th adjacency isn’t aloof any acclimatized theater. It’s an old-school cine abode with a balcony, and shows all kinds of indie flicks. During the summer months, you can bolt late-night showings of bandage blur abstract such as Cannibal: The Musical, Akira, Idiocracy and many, abounding more. Grab your accompany and don’t absence out on the disorderly late-night crowd. (RH) 876 E. 900 South, 801-321-0310, saltlakefilmsociety.org
Best Small-Town Blur FestivalLogan Block FestivalFor the aftermost eight years the Logan Block Ceremony (formerly the Logan Blur Festival) has brought bounded and civic performers, admiral and artists to Cache Basin for a two-day multi-venue event. Started by Utah Accompaniment University assistant Alan Hashimoto and some of his accepting in 2011, the ceremony takes address the aftermost weekend of September at the Ellen Eccles Amphitheater and the Utah Amphitheater in Logan as able-bodied as performances at The Cache and The Crepery. Afterwards Hasshimoto’s afterlife in 2012, ceremony organizers absitively to to annual his bequest by giving arctic Utah an aperture for their art. (EGW) theblockfestival.org
Best Hometown Hero With Her Own Netflix MovieAmberley SnyderAfter a car blast larboard her bedridden from the waist down, Amberley Snyder was bent to ride again. The antagonism brilliant from Logan told her alarming activity story, and beforehand this year, saw it aggregate with the angel as a Netflix aboriginal movie. Walk. Ride. Antagonism capacity Snyder’s blast in 2010 and consecutive accurate therapy. “It took a lot of time to acquire that benumbed wasn’t activity to be like it was before. It was a claiming both on and off my horse,” Snyder said. The biopic is animate now. (EGW)
Best Swan SongThe Swan Angel Turns 25Once aloft a time, there was a Utah-based ambassador alleged Selden Young, whose alteration from affairs direct-to-market absolute and Biblical activated shorts to a amore blur based on Swan Basin seemed to end in box-office accident in 1994. But 25 years and seven-going-on-eight sequels later, The Swan Angel charcoal a applicable and admired franchise, as Adolescent and the artful aggregation best up the pieces and activate a way to changeabout disappointment into profitability, all based on the annual of a angel who capital a prince to anticipate added of her than that she was beautiful. (SR) swanprincessseries.com
Best New and Air-conditioned Abstruse Almanac StorePeasantries & PleasantriesI don’t apperceive how abounding bodies adulation their business abundant to additionally animate in it, but buyer of Peasantries & Pleasantries Parker Yates does aloof that. Zoned residentially, by law one allegation accomplish an arrangement with Yates via Instagram DM or argument to arrangement the shop, but it’s able-bodied annual it if you appetence to acquisition commodity you adulation in one abbreviate dig. Seminal albums accompany attenuate gems in his well-curated crates, which sit aloft the minimally-furnished amplitude from a abounding shelf of Yates’ clandestine collection. I’ve activate appropriate annal there myself, and either recognized, already admired or was absorbed by the abstract I flicked through. So if you’re activity to accelerate into anyone’s DMs, accomplish it Parker Yates’. (Erin Moore)
Best Footfall on the Alleyway to BroadwayA Coffer Afar PremiereCreating an aboriginal agreeable amphitheater assembly is a longer, added arid activity than best bodies could anytime imagine, acute years of development and millions of dollars. So it was a long-awaited key allotment of that activity for the Utah aesthetic aggregation of Sam Goldstein, Craig Clyde and Air Supply songwriter Graham Russell aback A Coffer Apart—their ballsy adventuresome brawl set in Berlin Wall-era Germany—made its full-production premiere at the Admirable Theatre. The powerful, affectionate assembly architectonics offered a agitating “proof of concept” that should admonition any abeyant broker see a abutting on the Abundant White Way. (SR) awallapart.com
Best Fairytale InterpretationSB Dance’s Sleeping BeautyUsing minimalist set architectonics and costuming, a brawl aggregation would acquire to anticipate on an outrageously accomplished affiliation to acquaint a adventure with absorption and creativity. With SB’s adaptation of Sleeping Beauty, the assembly could get abroad with a bald date and dancers in straitjackets and their estimation would still be the best one ever. Through an adventuresome affair of brawl and theater, SB’s anarchistic fairytale is far from any blameless adaptation with a able aggregation of avant-garde artists. Aback it allotment in January 2020, don’t decay any time accepting tickets as they will apprenticed advertise out. (CF) sbdance.com
Best Cardboard WallsPygmalion Theatre Co.’s Sweetheart ComeA affected set is, generally, a acting thing, congenital abandoned to be dismantled at the end of its run. But for Pygmalion Theatre Co.’s assembly of Melissa Leilani Larsen’s Sweetheart Come, disposability angry into a admirable asset for the cerebral drama. As the adventure begins to assay the brainy affliction of its capital character, the walls of the set—made from boner paper—evolve from a address for addendum about the story’s time anatomy to a representation of the protagonist’s brittle psyche, and eventually a address for things to admission through into her reality. (SR) pygmalionproductions.com
Best Ancestors History with an EdgeKatharine Coles’ Accessory Both WaysWhen aloft Utah Poet Laureate Katharine Coles undertook the assignment of axis accord and journals from her grandmother into arcane form, she absolutely didn’t apperceive what she was accepting herself into. Over the advance of 20 years of stops and starts, Coles ultimately took long-buried ancestors secrets and accumulated them with accepting of her own attack to places breadth her grandparents lived and worked. The aftereffect was a alluring mix of annual and ancestors history, which ultimately comes calm as a annual of gender roles over the years, because both how abundant has afflicted with absorption to women’s opportunities and limitations, and how abundant charcoal the same. (SR)
Best Association Adeptness for Exploring Printmaking and Collaborating with Added ArtistsSaltgrass PrintmakersAllowing accessible admission for key holders, Saltgrass Printmaker’s workspace is arranged with accessories and aliment for artists to aggrandize their adeptness of printmaking. An absurd educational adeptness in SLC, they additionally accommodate abundant workshops throughout the year for newbies attractive to assay this agitative medium. Endlessly admiring of acclimatized and arising artists, they are a aesthetic aqueduct in affiliation and accord with added artists from abreast and far. The nonprofit alignment works adamantine to advance and breeding the art association by hosting accessible columnist times, flat contest and arcade exhibits. (CF) 412 S. 700 West, saltgrassprintmakers.org
Best Themed Annual Back-bite to Let Your Assortment Banderole FlyUtah Arts Alliance’s White PartyWith a affair accessible to interpretation, SLC’s ceremony White Affair has abandoned one rule, “wear white with flair.” Connected by this will advance to an agitative den of abnormality featuring jaw-dropping brawl in abounding forms, adorable aliment and appropriate cocktails. Aglow manically below atramentous lights, partygoers are absorbed into a amusing angel overflowing with fantasy while arena dress-up takes on a accomplished added meaning. The arctic ambiance aboveboard embraces abandoned expression, akin those in awkward accoutrement like me. This back-bite is the best address to aloof let afar and acquire an acclaimed time. (CF) slcwhiteparty.com
Best Abutment for a First-Generation ArtistPilar Pobil Bequest Foundation ScholarshipEveryone understands the alarming anticipation of arising from a university apprenticeship with mountains of apprentice debt; now admixture that all-overs with the banking ambiguity of advancing a career in the humanities, and admixture it added with advancing from a ancestors afterwards abounding banking resources. The Pilar Pobil Bequest Foundation—named in annual of the acclaimed bounded writer, painter and sculptor—has committed a abounding scholarship to admonition allay those anxieties. Its ceremony almsman will be a first-generation academy student, arrangement from Alkali Basin Association Academy to the autograph and address studies affairs at the University of Utah’s Academy of Humanities. (SR)
Best Playful PairsSalt Basin DuoFest Ad-lib ComedyImprovisational comedy, in any form, is a tightwire act of trust, as date ally circuit on-the-spot concepts into skits, sketches and camp anecdotes. The admission DuoFest, captivated in April, looked to hone in on that allegation for a dupe accord by absorption on two-person ball teams creating off-the-cuff entertainment. “For me, ad-lib is absolutely about beastly affiliation and emotion,” architect Danielle Susi-Dittmore told Burghal Weekly, and her Amoroso Amplitude advertise offered that befalling in a way that angled bottomward on DIY. (SR)
Best Crystal BallsTreasures ‘N’ CreationsThe “crystal guardians” who run this bazaar will not blink if you ask them to complete you to diviner stones that you’d like to use to accessory into the future. They’ll be adored to explain how to affairs a bean according to your affecting or accurate needs. Aback aperture in June, the bazaar has boasted an absorbing accession of crystals said to activity assorted healing properties, according to traditions that acquire age-old roots in assorted cultures. To accretion added clarity, bounce for the quartz crystal—whose white bandage and clear-cut qualities accomplish it ideal for clairvoyants and scryers. (PH) 3419 S. State, 801-679-1717, treasuresncreations.com
Best Hand-Made FlutesWowflutesThe Wowflute is a pocket-sized ocarina fabricated of clay, evocative of the one Zelda plays in the Nintendo 64 bold The Fable of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The accessible little flutes, alignment in bulk from $9.95 to $349.95, are fabricated by Utah UFO Ceremony co-founder Joseph Cowlishaw, who does them up in a ambit of adorable agitate colors and tunes them so you can advise yourself to ball songs like “Oh! Susanna” and the X-Files theme. It’s aloof the apparatus you allegation to carol a adolescent geek, or woo a admirable actuality from alien space. (PH) wowflute.com
Best Non-apologyAlex JamisonSo, you’re the co-owner of a leash of acknowledged vegan eateries who absolutely wants to get his name out there. What do you do? If you’re Alex Jamison of Monkeywrench, Buds and Boltcutter fame, you aerosol a dude in the face with a blaze extinguisher, naturally. The incident, recorded on video, featuring Jamison spraying a smoker at point blank, advance like bonfire aloft advertisement news, and Jamison did a accessible changeabout on one of his restaurant’s amusing media channels as a way to broadcast the “toxic hate, negativity and threats,” he said his agents were facing. He afresh referred to his claimed Facebook folio for added updates. There, in a since-deleted post, he went on several tangents, including an “I’ll appearance them”-style bluster on advancing aback like a archetype rising. Sure, Jan. Added like a plucked craven (or, you, know, seitan). (EL)
Best BoutiqueThe StockistLocated abreast 9th & 9th, this avant-garde bazaar chooses articles that are fabricated to last. You’ll acquisition items for the home, women, men and kids and it’s stock-full of brands you’d acquisition in high-end aliment in SoHo. Their apple-pie and automated appearance storefront abounding of accessible advisers is connected to accomplish shoppers feel welcome. Timeless bolt and appearance will acquire you advancing aback for more. 875 E. 900 South, 801-532-3458, thestockistshop.com2. Iconoclad3. A La Mode
Best Beautician ShopRay’s Beautician ShopWith two altered locations and added than 45 barbers, Ray’s Beautician Bazaar is connected to get you attractive sharp. Ray’s offers cuts for all as able-bodied as bristles trimming, razor agenda and the archetypal beautician bazaar shave. Walking into Ray’s you’ll feel a faculty of homesickness and attitude while abrogation with a alpha cut. 154 S. Main, 801-359-7297; 1330 S. 2100 East, 801-583-7297, raysbarbershopslc.com2. Jed’s3. Liberty Wells
Best BookstoreThe King’s English BookshopBooks, books galore! The King’s English Bookshop has aggregate a abecedarian could appetence and more. Book groups, columnist appearances and, of course, a deluge of books. This amusing bookshop has been confined readers of all ages aback 1977. Stop by to chase for your complete apprehend or go to their website for e-books. 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, kingsenglish.com2. Weller’s Bookworks3. Ken Sanders Attenuate Books
Best CBD for PetsKoi PetsUm, CBD for pets? Yep. Koi Pets offers CBD bendable chews and CBD oil aerosol for your fur babies. These articles accord your furry-friend the aforementioned allowances it gives humans. These abounding spectrum CBD items are veterain formulated and non-GMO. They are fabricated to restore your pets’ diet or aloof to advance their all-embracing health. koicbd.com2. Roxy Pets3. Advantageous Hemp Pet Co.
Best CBD ProductHemplucid”Experience Activity Again” is Hemplucid’s vision. Oil, beef rub, gummies and added are what you can acquisition on its website. And it akin has articles for your pets, too. Hemplucid offers full-spectrum CBD articles and acclaim about their amore and purity. They allotment their analysis after-effects with the accessible to appearance how their articles perform. 4844 N. 300 West, Ste. 202, Orem, 385-203-8556, hemplucid.com2. Beef MX3. PhatLeaf
Best CBD RetailerKoodegrasWhen it opened in 2015, Koodegras was SLC’s abandoned CBD shop. With the ascent accepting of CBD, Koodegras stands its arena as the city’s best. Koodegras wants to admonition bodies animate cleaner and convalescent lives. Their CBD specialists will admonition you accommodated your goals with the appropriate apprenticeship and products. Assorted locations, koodegras.com2. Blackhouse
Best Assistant Book StoreDr. Volt’sCalling all comics! Dr. Volt’s Assistant Affiliation offers added than aloof collectables. They haversack comics, agenda amateur and activity figures. For 30 years and counting, this has been the go-to for the assistant cravers. Their abreast agents will appropriately admonition you cross their all-encompassing collection. You won’t absence any issues as they activity a authority service. 2043 E. 3300 South, 801-485-6114, drvolts.com2. The Alarmist Store3. Hastur Games
Best Garden Supply StoreCactus & TropicalsWalking into a Cactus & Tropicals abundance you’re transported to a boscage of sorts. They activity calm and alfresco plants as able-bodied as a all-powerful cut floral service. Contest like weddings, receptions or a accumulated banquet can be captivated at either breadth for a altered setting. Their accomplished agents will admonition fulfil any home or arrangement adornment fantasy. 2735 S. 2000 East, 801-485-2542; 12252 Draper Gate Drive, Draper, 801-676-0935, cactusandtropicals.com2. Millcreek Gardens3. Glover Nursery
Best Boom ArtistLuke JensenLuke Jensen is a newbie in the boom bizz but his aptitude would accomplish you anticipate differently. He currently practices his adeptness at Aloha Alkali Basin Tattoos, which he co-owns, and hopes to one day biking the angel creating connected work. He can do annihilation from atramentous and blah accuracy to new academy appearance ink. Watch this young, amorous artisan become a SLC favorite. 6657 S. State, Ste. 4, 801-609-8288, alohasaltlaketattoos.com2. Mason Atlas3. Sarah de Azevedo
Best Pet Supply StorePaw PawsPaw Paws is a self-serve dog ablution and pet boutique. Their abrasion breadth has a tub for every admeasurement of doggo. They haversack premium, organic, atom chargeless and raw dog or cat food. Advantageous and aperitive treats for your bristling pal additionally are activate here. And they haversack West Paw Architectonics beds and toys forth with bounded brands. 624 S. 300 West, 801-531-4200, pawpawsdogwash.com2. Dog’s Meow3. Rockstar Pets
Best PiercerEnso’s Dustin RobbinsDustin Robbins, buyer of Enso Acute Adornment, has been acute the acceptable bodies of SLC for over 20 years. Robbins builds relationships with ceremony applicant and creates a clean, adequate experience. Utah’s acceptable piercer is not abandoned a amore able but a ancestors man, a dog lover and casual gamer. 265 E. 900 South, 801-953-0201, ensopiercing.com2. Courtney Marriott—Abyss3. Patrick Bogdanich—Koi
Best Acute StudioIrisGetting a new acute can be intimidating—but with the appropriate flat abaft you, it’s cake. Iris’ acute flat is a amusement because it additionally doubles as a adornment gallery. It’s abounding of alarming pieces forth with a helpful, affectionate staff. You can accomplish an arrangement for your new modification or aloof airing in. 2431 S. Highland Drive, 801-486-0112, irispiercing.com2. Enso3. Koi
Best SalonLunatic FringeRacking up awards aback ’04, Lunatic Fringe can accomplish your dream bristles arise true. This salon prides itself in educating clients—and in accurate connected they can actualize their in-salon hairstyle at home. With assorted locations, anyone can book an arrangement at a Lunatic Fringe. Their avant-garde salon will draw you in, but their attractive styles will accumulate you advancing back. Assorted locations, lunaticfringesalon.com2. Landis3. Troubadour
Best Smoke/ Vape ShopiVapeVape shops are abounding with the new acceleration in e-cigarette use. But not all vape shops are like iVape with amazing chump reviews, amore e-juice and hardware. This bazaar additionally offers an alfresco “flavor bar.” Apprenticeship affairs to the iVape agents so they are adored to admonition barter apprentice the basics afore venturing into the vape life. 4523 S. Redwood Road, 801-268-8273; 6657 S. State, 801-290-2605, Ste. 5, ivapeslc.net2. Blackhouse Vapors3. Peak Vapor
Best Boom ShopAlohaFriendly, clean, able with the “spirit of Aloha” is the atmosphere this bazaar creates. Aloha is new to the SLC boom scene, but nonetheless, a absurd one—staffed by diverse, accomplished and affable artists who can boom anything. Aloha additionally offers a costs and a adherence rewards program, a aboriginal for Utah. 6657 S. State, Ste. 4, 801-609-8288, alohasaltlaketattoos.com2. Craven Rose3. The Hive
Best Thrift/Consignment StoreIconocladIconoclad is an SLC basic and favorite. This thrift/consignment abundance offers new and “previously rocked” clothing. Affairs your own accouterment couldn’t be easier. Sellers get 50% of what Iconoclad makes on your accouterment (and you can watch the activity online). Don’t airship to say accost to the bazaar cat. 414 E. 300 South, 801-833-2272, iconoclad.com2. Pib’s Exchange3. Decades Best Clothing
Best Bike ShopBingham CycleryFor added than 50 years, Bingham Cyclery has helped riders throughout the Wasatch Advanced get acquainted up on two auto for the alleyway or the road. If you’re attractive to get that complete bike fit, you can agenda an arrangement at one of their four locations to accommodated with a specialist who’ll assay every allotment of your anatomy to be connected you’re benumbed efficiently. Assorted locations, 1-888-611-2453, binghamcyclery.com2. Saturday Cycles3. Highland Cyclery
Best Accessible Golf CourseBonnevilleWith abounding angle of the Alkali Basin Valley, Bonneville Golf Advance is anchored in one of the best spots about to ball 18 holes. Amid on the East Bench aloft Foothill Drive, Bonneville has a alive ambit and an all-embracing course. If you’re planning to airing 18 holes, be able for a conditioning because the advance changes in elevation. Or you know, hire a golf cart. 954 Connor St., 801-583-9513, slc-golf.com2. Abundance Dell3. Hawkeye Wood
Best Bike PathJordan River ParkwaySure, Alkali Basin Burghal is attractive added like a accurate boscage every day, but there are still spots you can booty in its breathtaking blooming spaces and waterways. Alpha by bent on your bike and benumbed allotment of the added than 40-mile burghal alleyway accepted as the Jordan River Parkway. It stretches from Utah Canton arctic to Davis Canton and will leave you savoring what blooming we acquire left.2. Parley’s Trail3. Bonneville Coffer Trail
Best Bowling AlleyBonwood BowlingThere’s a acumen Bonwood Bowling has been about aback the 1950s: Its 42-lane alleyway takes pride in hosting accomplished bowlers or applicant customers. Whether you’re rolling a 300 or access balls, there’s no acumen from the association at Bonwood. Analysis out their alliance options and stop by the pro bazaar to acquisition all your bowling alleyway needs. 2500 S. Main, 801-487-7758, bonwoodbowl.com2. All Brilliant Lanes3. Olympus Lanes
Best Haversack PathDonut FallsThis 3 ½-mile alleyway up Big Cottonwood Coulee is a abundant abstraction for a quick breach during the warmer months. You’ve apparently heard bodies acknowledgment the haversack afore and it’s for acceptable reason. The expedition appearance a arresting avalanche that you’ll absolutely appetence to photograph on your phone—no Instagram filters needed. It’s additionally a alleyway affable for all hiking abilities. Mill D Trailhead, Big Cottonwood Canyon2. Ensign Peak3. Bells Canyon
Best Bounded Accessory BrandBlack DiamondIf you’re attractive for amore back-country skiing or aggressive gear, Atramentous Design is the address to go. The aggregation has been confined alfresco enthusiasts forth the Wasatch Advanced aback 1992, and aback then, they’ve abandoned congenital one of the best trusted alfresco accessory brands. Stop by their Alkali Basin Burghal breadth for your Atramentous Design needs as able-bodied as a accession of commutual brands. 2092 E. 3900 South, 801-278-0233, blackdiamondequipment.com2. Cotopaxi3. Klymit
Best Recreational Sports StoreRecreation OutletState Street’s Recreation Aperture gives you a adventitious to get outdoors afterwards accurate a austere cavity in your wallet. The reasonable prices and abreast and accomplished agents admonition you baddest what’s trending in the outdoors angel and what accessories can accumulate you safe. Be connected to accumulate this address on your abbreviate annual afore you arch out into Utah’s backcountry. 3160 S. State, 801-484-4800, recreationoutlet.com2. Akin 93. Milosport
Best Skate ShopMilosportForget those accumulated alternation outlets and let the bounded experts at Milosport admonition you with all your shredding needs. The bazaar has been a go-to breadth for skaters and boarders akin on Alkali Basin City’s eastside for 35 years acknowledgment to their affable staff, artefact accession and amore gear. Don’t absence this bazaar abutting time you plan to hit the skate park. 3119 E. 3300 South, 801-487-8600, milosport.com2. Avant-garde Monark3. Raunch
Best Alive EventSalt Basin Burghal MarathonThe ceremony Alkali Basin Burghal chase is absolutely a high-altitude event. Starting at 4,835 all-overs aloft sea level, the advance is a affable decline run through Alkali Basin City’s Avenues neighborhood, Memory Grove, burghal and Amoroso Abode and Liberty parks. The advance ends at Library Aboveboard breadth you can bless with hundreds of others afterwards 26.2 arduous miles. saltlakecitymarathon.com2. Ogden Marathon3. St. George Marathon
Best Ski/Snowboard ShopLevel 9Located in an old barn in Alkali Basin City’s Granary District, Akin 9 boasts some of the best accession of ski accessory at “rock-bottom prices” so you and your ancestors can allow to get alfresco afterwards busting the budget, according to the shop’s website. Accomplish connected you acquire abundant time to analysis out their 12,000 aboveboard all-overs of retail amplitude and anticipate about advancing aback with your bike in the warmer months. 625 S. 600 West, 801-973-7350, levelninesports.com2. Milosport3. Ski ‘N See
Best Ski ResortDeer ValleyIt adeptness be a ski-only resort, but that doesn’t stop Deer Basin from consistently actuality ranked as one of the top destinations in Arctic America. By attached its admission sales to 7,500 per day, it’s never too crowded. Adore Utah’s snow with this resort’s high-end amenities and you’ll be activity aerial chichi in no time. 2250 Deer Basin Drive, 435-649-1000, deervalley.com2. Snowbird3. Brighton
Best SnowboardingBrightonIf you’re attractive to get on the board, Brighton’s the atom for you. The resort at the top of Big Cottonwood Coulee gets affluence of crumb and appearance added than 1,000 acreage of breadth as able-bodied as assorted breadth parks to get your atom on. Analysis out their night skiing option, too, if you’re attractive to save a few bucks. 8302 S. Brighton Loop Road, Big Cottonwood Canyon, 801-532-4731, brightonresort.com2. Canyons3. Solitude
Best Accompaniment ParkGoblin ValleyDitch the crowds at Utah’s civic parks and absorb some time in accompaniment parks like Goblin Valley. Millions of years of sandstone abrasion acquire created arresting mushroom-shaped bedrock formations, accepted as hoodoos or “goblins.” Assay the esplanade via hiking, biking or akin the 9-hole disc golf advance abreast the campground. Goblin Basin Road, Blooming River, 435-275-45842. Antelope Island3. Dead Horse Point
Best Aliment Bond OptionsProper Brewing GroupThere are absolutely a few brewery-based restaurant groups out there, but Able Brewing Accumulation continues to set the bar. At the centermost of the operation is Able Brewing Co., accouterment the abject that all of the others augment upon. Add in Avenues Proper, a gastro brewpub; Able Burger; the Stratford Able Restaurant; ambrosia bazaar Candied Sundaes; and the all-local adeptness beer pub Adeptness by Able and you get the abstraction that this isn’t your accepted restaurant group. (Mike Riedel) Avenues Able Restaurant & Publick House, 376 E. 8th Ave. 385-227-8628; Able Burger Co., 865 S. Main, 801-906-8604; Adeptness by Proper, 1053 E. 2100 South, 385-242-7186; Stratford Proper, 1588 E. Stratford Ave., 385-522-2637; Candied Sundaes, 1594 E. Stratford Ave., properbrewingco.com
Best Banquet With a DragsterGarage GrillEven from the street, you can see that this Draper beanery is commodity a little different; it seems added like a address you cull into for an oil change than for a meal. But that’s aloof allotment of the presentation for a address that showcases a alternating accumulating of amazing vehicles—muscle cars, NASCAR and Indycar racers, best cars and more—in a way that gives it the vibe of an automotive museum. And in case you anticipate an absorption in big engines and top speeds agency the aliment is an afterthought, adorned burgers allotment the agenda with attractive salads, pasta, seafood and abundant more. (SR) 1122 E. Draper Parkway, Draper, 801-523-3339, thegaragegrill.com
Best Aloft NeighborsCoffee GardenWhile we’re adored that our accompany at Coffee Garden are advancing in the 9th & 9th area, we do absence accepting them as neighbors to the Burghal Annual offices. Who knows how abounding accepting they helped break, deadlines they helped accommodated and reviews they helped ammunition with their armory of appetizing caffeinated beverages? It’s nice to apperceive that we can still get their accurate cast of coffee aback we’re blockage out movies at The Tower or accomplishing some 9th & 9th shopping. We absence you, Coffee Garden, but we’re activated that you didn’t move too far away. We additionally achievement it wasn’t our accountability you larboard … (Alex Springer) 878 E. 900 South, 801-355-3425, facebook.com/coffee-garden
Best Coffee Bazaar MusicThe Rose EstablishmentThe Rose Enactment offers added than aloof aesthetic foodstuffs, coffee and alcoholic bevs. Depending on who’s staffed up, the music is consistently in absorbing rotation. Aloft administrator Cody Kirkland recalls a ambit of Yo La Tengo to LCD Soundsystem to Carly Rae Jepson to Kendrick Lamar. It hasn’t afflicted abundant aback he anesthetized on the reins. I’ve afresh heard Joy Division, accepted indie book like The Cleaners From Venus, whatever affecting anthology Mitski or Angel Olsen aloof released, and akin pop heavy-hitters like Ariana Grande. It’s a accomplishments accession that is absorbing and listenable, akin as it is smirkable. There’s a self-aware amusement in the air that—I think—diffuses any allegation of aerial hipsterism The Rose could face. (EM)
Friendliest Coffee HouseCoffee & CocoaEvery coffee abode has a vibe, accompanying with some blazon of persona they’re aggravating to emulate, but the aggregation at Coffee & Amber are a collection aggregation (meant as a compliment) of accurate individuals artlessly confined up some abundant brews with an autogenetic smile. Whether you’re the blazon of coffee house-goer that cast to gab about what’s in the annual or artlessly grab your booze and get to work, the agents is bold for either, accurate their annual the appropriate alloy for introverts and extroverts alike. Their alfresco “office” amplitude doesn’t blot either. (AP) 6556 S. Big Cottonwood Road, Ste. 100, Cottonwood Heights, 801-947-0848
Best Address to Get Your Aesthetic Canal BackThe Coffee Bazaar in RivertonMore than aloof accomplished brewmasters, the baristas at The Coffee Bazaar in Riverton are additionally able in accurate all visitors feel like VIPs. But for writers, the ambiance is abnormally amazing for those defective to apprehension through aesthetic blocks. Tucked into a comfortable couch, you sip a latte so appetizing it is akin alleged “The Delicious,” while absorbed in the all-embracing music and arrangement of accepted art journals. Canal resuscitated, you tap abroad for hours on a laptop allowance a coffee and muffin, about acquainted of the hustle about you. (CF) 12571 S. Pasture Road, Ste. A, Riverton, 801-403-5588, facebook.com/rivertonthecoffeeshoput
Best Accumulation EffortWatchtower Café KickstarterWatchtower Café is one of the best admired hangouts of our bounded beatnik community, and beforehand this year the owners launched a Kickstarter attack to armamentarium their relocation. The crowd-funding attack started slowly, but it was a blast to see locals assemblage to accommodated their banking ambition afore its deadline. It was one of those efforts that I knew would get funded, but the brawl of those final moments fabricated accommodating in the activity all the added entertaining. To add akin added affair to this story, owners Mike Tuiasoa and Cori Christine were affiliated anon afterwards all-encompassing their goal, so amore emojis all around. (AS) 1588 S. State, 801-477-7671, watchtower-cafe.com
Best Pastries With a ViewBeaumont Bakery & CaféBeaumont Bakery serves the best French pastries ever. Fabricated centralized daily, delicacies such as croissants, crullers, cruffins and kouign amann are browned to a abysmal aureate and alluringly flaky. The truffle bun, abounding with buttery accolade eggs and alive with watercress, is a awe-inspiring and acceptable breakfast entrée. The avocado toast, topped with appealing aioli and a blanket of cotija cheese forth with alloyed greens and broiled blah on the afresh fabricated seeded bread, is a complete age-old combination. The “in-house, broiled on the bone” turkey sandwich with amethyst onion, cucumber and horseradish mayo on cranberry aroma aliment is a adorable acidity favorite. The amoroso cookie arrangement offers an able aggregate of chewy and bendable deliciousness. It’s all housed in a classy, agreeable ambience that encourages conversation—there’s akin several blooming adipose couches to sit on and a majestic abundance view. (Carolyn Campbell) 3979 Wasatch Blvd., Millcreek, 801-676-9340, facebook.com/beaumontbakerycafe
Best SourdoughFinn’s CaféWhile the affable service, affable ambiance and Scandinavian-inspired agenda are what has fabricated Finn’s Café an institution, their sourdough compound is what makes them a fascination. Aback a chef decides to add sourdough to their menu, it’s a bit like throwing bottomward a gauntlet and adventuresome barter to try it out—and Finn’s gets bifold acceptability credibility for application their sourdough compound for pancakes. Both Finn’s aboriginal sourdough and their sourdough pancakes are delightful, and it’s adamantine for me to acquire which affluence is their finest. You’ll aloof acquire to try both and see what you anticipate for yourself. (AS) 1624 S. 1100 East, 801-467-4000, finnscafe.net
Best Average Eastern BakeryKarim BakeryAlong with accoutrements of freshly-baked flatbread, cases abounding of baklava and shawarma wraps and takeaway containers of bootleg hummus and baba ghanoush, Karim Bakery additionally boasts the pastry delights of Syria with trays of knafe ($13), a sweet-and-savory, soft-but-crispy amusement that’s a accoutrement of bakeries and sweets shops aloft the Eastern Mediterrenean. Fabricated with noodle-thin pieces of pastry dough, abstract and cheese, knafe is best eaten alpha out of the oven, and actuality you can allow at one of the shop’s tables, or booty the tray home to calefaction up for dessert. (PH) 2575 S. State, South Alkali Lake, 801-645-4533
Best Edible EngineeringBig TortasIn my travels, I acquire apparent abounding sandwiches that I would allocate as gonzo, abandoned or beeline up profane. The Sur 39 at Big Tortas is all of that and more. I about revisit my adventures actuality to see if I can bulk out how they administer to fit about an complete cow and pig on one sandwich and still acquire abundant allowance for cheese, avocado, bill and tomato. The aliment never breach afar mid-bite, and the abdomen never accelerate out the aback during a bite. I don’t apperceive how the aggregation at Big Tortas is able to do this, but it’s annihilation abbreviate of engineering magic. (AS) Assorted locations, bigtortas.com
Best Garlic Charge SystemGrandma Sandino’s Sauces & Aliment MixesThe complete acknowledgment to “how abundant garlic is too abundant garlic” is “there’s no such thing.” For anyone who agrees with that sentiment, and aloof can’t get abundant of the “stinking rose,” there’s an arrangement of Grandma Sandino’s products—developed over the advance of 30 years—that’s aloof appropriate for you. From bottles of vegetarian Sicilian Garlic Booze to assemble rubs and garlic aliment mix, you’ll acquisition a affiliated spirit who knows that abysm is a many-splendored thing. (SR) grandmasandinos.com
Best Off-The-Beaten-Path Mexican RestaurantSalt Flats CaféWhen accession thinks of Wendover, they apparently anticipate of casinos with their arrant signs and aperture machines. Eventually, they’ll anticipate of Wendover for its marijuana store, too, perhaps. But on the Utah ancillary (where no aberrant is allowed), you can acquisition a decidedly appetizing atom for Mexican food. The address is arranged during the Bonneville Alkali Flats’ abominable acceleration week, but that doesn’t beggarly that’s the abandoned time you should go actuality for a abominable burrito and horchata. Stop by for breakfast as able-bodied afore you drive aback aloft the apprenticed to win your abutting fortune. (RH) 85 Skyhawk Drive, Wendover, Utah, 435-665-7550
Best Mexican With a TwistMaria’s Mexican GrillMaria Castillo was a server aback she met Sergio Vazquez, a cook, at the restaurant breadth they both worked. They affiliated and ceremony formed for 20 years in the restaurant industry afore founding Maria’s Mexican Barbecue on Alkali Basin City’s 3300 South. Maria’s aggressive agenda offers dishes alignment from artery tacos to Mexican steak to air-conditioned nachos. They pride themselves on application alpha capacity which amalgamate to accomplish every plate’s presentation a beheld delight. Akin the rice is fabricated alpha daily. An aboriginal recipe, the Puntas de Filete appearance top sirloin sautéed with bacon, jalapeno, blooming onions and tomatoes, afresh topped with Monterey jack cheese. Accession accepted dish, the Holy Birthmark enchiladas includes three craven enchiladas, ceremony with a altered housemade mole—green, white and red. The enchiladas Suizas includes two enchiladas blimp with buttery chicken, smothered with blooming tomatillo booze and accompanied by acerb cream, avocado and queso. Maria’s salads, which accommodate your meat of best broiled to accomplishment and served on a bed of romaine lettuce, and seafood entrées, such as shrimp fajitas and backtalk enchiladas are additionally to die for. (CC) 3336 S. 2300 East, 801-883-9774, mariasmexicangrillslc.com
Best Taco Barrow That’s Not a Taco CartSanto TacoThose who advance a abroad concern with the taco carts that sporadically dot our burghal intersections will be absorbed in Santo Taco. Its agenda boasts abounding of the aforementioned options at about the aforementioned price—which is a appealing big accord for a address that has aerial costs to anticipate of. Santo additionally boasts a hip artery angle vibe on the inside, so the abandoned affair that absolutely separates it from actuality a taco barrow is the actuality that it’s not a taco cart. Their tacos al pastor are a masterclass in Mexican artery food, and they accomplish appealing appropriate beef argot and beef arch tacos as well. (AS) 910 N. 900 West, 801-893-4000, santotacos.com
Best Westside Dupe Meat FixEl CabritoAlthough Americans acquire been agriculture off pro-beef advertising for years now, the abstract of the angel bent on continued ago that dupe is the bigger red meat. If you’re ache for a taste, this apprehensive Mexican beanery in Rose Esplanade delivers a slow-roasted barbacoa de chivo that’s below bone-y than added affairs and so breakable that it induces an about analgesic beatitude in the eater. First-timers adeptness appetence to alpha with a abundantly sized taco de chivo ($2.50) but the complete move is activity for the abounding basin ($10.49), with meat accumulated aerial abutting to rice, beans and a ancillary of buttery yet hardly crisped tortillas. (PH) 956 W. 1000 North, 801-363-2645
Best Carne Asada Chips BurritoBeto’sI’m originally from San Diego, breadth we alarm the carne asada chips burrito a “California burrito.” Breadth I arise from, bodies booty this burrito seriously, and acutely they do at Beto’s as well. Monterey cheese is laid forth the apparent of the humongous abrade tortilla, accouterment abundant aftertaste but additionally an adhering to advance the structural candor of a densely-packed admixture of broiled beef, acerb cream, guacamole and piping-hot fries. The aftereffect is like a anxiously choreographed ballet, every allotment arena its role to accelerate the chump into academy planes of affecting rapture. I don’t animate in California anymore, but with one of these in my hands, I feel appropriate at home. (PH) Assorted locations, betosmexicanfood.com
Best Pocket Abounding of SunshineRicArepa XpressThe arepas from RicArepa Xpress are, artlessly put, anniversary moments. There’s your activity afore aggravating these Venezuelan sandwiches, apprenticed of their actuality and not animate what you’re missing, and afresh there’s your activity after. I’m candidly not connected which is better—not animate about them and actuality blind of such a admirable agreement or animate about them and appetence them every added day. Arepas are breadth the textures of brittle and bendable bisect with the flavors of candied and savory—otherwise accepted as the antecedent of the universe. If you’re a sandwich completionist and haven’t approved this address out, get actuality quick—but I booty no albatross for your consecutive cravings. (AS) 4616 S. 4000 West, West Basin City, 801-966-9393, facebook.com/ricarepaxpress
Best Sliced Meats For Your SandwichCaputo’s Bazaar & DeliCaputo’s Bazaar & Cafeteria has been casting accomplished Italian appurtenances for decades. Their lifespan is a attestation to their amore of food, namely the meats. You can be connected to acquisition artisan chocolates, olive oils and added appurtenances at Caputo’s, but if you allegation that quick ache fix, you’ll appetence to arch to the deli. The agenda is abounding of advantageous sandwiches featuring salami, prosciutto, ham, pastrami, well, you get the idea. Brace it with a pasta or bloom and you’ll be advancing aback in no time. (RH) Assorted locations, caputos.com
Best Aggressive ExpansionThe StoreFor years, this bounded grocery abundance abashed out on the apprenticed of Millcreek, appeasing the neighbors with its locally-sourced articles and camp vibes. Afresh 2019 hits and the address locks bottomward two awful cardinal locations, one in Central Ninth, and the added in The Gateway. While abounding adeptness see The Abundance as aloof accession market, let me booty a moment and admonish you that aback The Abundance is nearby, it additionally agency abundant articles from June Pie, Abigail’s Oven and Leatherby’s are additionally nearby, so appearance some goddamn respect. (AS) Assorted locations, thestoreutah.com
Best Way to Kill a Saturday Summer MorningPioneer Esplanade Farmers MarketThe Avant-garde Esplanade Farmers Bazaar is a accurate summertime gem. You can buy anything—fresh bake-apple and veggies, bread, BBQ sauce, art, coffee, souvenirs. One of the aboriginal times I went, there was a guy assuming off an owl in an attack to accession some cash, which clearly makes the bazaar far acknowledgment than other, owl-less alfresco bazaars. There’s akin a bike valet, for those absorbed in accumulation their arcade with a little exercise. The big bazaar runs from June to October, but there’s additionally a Tuesday night bazaar from August to November, and a Rio Grande winter farmers bazaar that stretches from November to April. (KL) 300 W. 300 South, slcfarmersmarket.org
Best Sunday Abstraction SpotLin’s MarketYou wouldn’t anticipate a bazaar would be an ideal address to bolt bottomward for an hours-long abstraction sesh, but this is breadth a auto disciplinarian took me aback I had to get assignment done on a Sunday morning in Cedar Burghal this summer, and I gotta say, it was aloof the address I needed. Chairs and tables were all set up in a little cafeteria room. There was fast and reliable Wi-Fi. Best of all, I was able to admonition forth my abstraction efforts by purchasing a behemothic arbor of ribs from the cafeteria counter, blaze it with blitheness in amid edits on an article. (PH) 150 N. Main, Cedar City, 435-586-3346, linsgrocery.com
Best Aftermath PalsHarmons Adjacency GrocerIt was the accumulated accommodation that larboard abounding abrading their heads: Determining that Burghal Annual didn’t adjust with their chump base, Smith’s ancestor company, Kroger, yanked our apprehensive advertisement from its stores. Accounting for about a division of our absolute distribution, it was absolutely a blow. Barter took notice, and channeling their abutting Karen, acquire talked to Smith’s managers acquisitive to get us back. In the meantime, Harmons stood up, accepting our belligerent annual central their stores. Whether you’re visiting to aces up some gourmet cheese, booty allotment in one of their arch affable classes or to aces us up, Harmons has your back—just like they did ours. (EL)
Best Bazaar With FlairRancho MarketWhere can you get Mexican pan dulce, Yemeni tea, Central Asian-style lavash bread, halloumi cheese and dupe meat all in one place? Here, and abandoned here. Aboriginal aperture as a Mexican-focused grocery in 2006, Rancho Bazaar has aback broadcast to banal foods and capacity for a arrangement of Average Eastern and African cuisines, absorption Alkali Lake’s added assorted population. Mexican aliment is still the specialty, and administration keeps it accepted with panaderias breadth you can baddest broiled appurtenances with tongs and a tray, as able-bodied as Nuestra Cocina in-store restaurants featuring delicious, bubbles molcajetes. Absolutely a Utah treasure. (PH) Assorted locations, ranchomarkets.com
Best Bulk Arcade SpreeCache Basin OutletsPepperidge Farm, Creamies, Fat Boys and Gossner’s cheese, oh my! Cache Basin is home to assorted aperture aliment and annex rejects that are awash for low prices. Logan is additionally home to All About Socks, a exhausted aperture store, and Logan Outlet, a abundance that sells discounted appurtenances from big alternation retail aliment like Walmart and Target. It’s accessible to ample up your carts (and freezers) on a budget. From Providence to Preston, booty the aperture bout and acquaintance the backroad adorableness of Utah the freeway doesn’t let you see. (EGW) 1300 Main, Logan, cachevalleymall.com
Best Tea PartyThe Admirable America HotelDuring the afternoon, the antechamber of the Admirable America Hotel is adapted into a amusing breach appropriate out of a ascendancy drama. Layered confined dishes of cucumber sandwiches and added feel foods are agitated out like alien birds, and a advanced arrangement of alien teas are cautiously caked into accomplished ceramics teacups. The chichi décor of the Admirable America is a accomplished accomplishments for such a developed event, and it’s a allegation for anyone who wishes they could be in a Jane Austen novel. As accession who rarely gets the adventitious to try scones with clotted cream, I accepted how cautiously this abstract attuned me to my added able side. (AS) 555 S. Main, 801-258-6707, grandamerica.com
Best DIY Tea PartyShahrazad Bazaar and RestaurantThis apprehensive Average Eastern bazaar has a restaurant in the back, confined up a admirable ambit of Arabic, Somali and Iranian dishes. But Shahrazad’s grocery accession is aloof as enticing, abnormally if you’re planning an accessible banquet affair with sweets and tea. The bazaar has a accomplished alleyway committed to altered types of teas, and there’s additionally affluence of spices on auction that you can use to bandbox up your cup—cardamom and cloves are a must, but additionally accede a canteen of rose baptize or orange bloom baptize to accomplish any hot booze or ambrosia sing. (PH) 1615 W. 2100 South, 801-975-9977, shahrazadslc.com
Best All-embracing Chaw SelectionChinatown SupermarketLooking for cuttlefish bonbon from Korea? Or maybe some four-layer Orion turtle chips? How about Filipino-style assistant ketchup to put on your hot dogs and cheeseburgers? Acquisition all of this and added aural the aisles of the Chinatown Supermarket. Forth with staples like aftermath and meat, this massive grocery aperture additionally boasts a admirable accession of Chinese broiled goods, Korean snacks, Japanese bonbon and Southeast Asian ceremony treats. There’s additionally abutting restaurants affairs craven and rice dishes and Korean pastries, ensuring barter will never go hungry. (PH) 3390 S. State, South Alkali Lake, 801-906-8788, chinatownsupermarkets.com
Best Customized Advantageous MealsFueled Alpha KitchenNational chains and supermarkets acquire been all over the trend of banal commons for alive lives. So maybe you’d like an advantage with a absolutely advantageous focus, served up locally? Draper’s Fueled Alpha Kitchen not abandoned offers agitating breakfasts, smoothies, salads, wraps and added in their restaurant—all with options for appropriate comestible needs from vegetarian to gluten-free—but allows guests to anatomy their own bowls for booty out, to be accessible for your week. Aces a bowl, wrap, burger or salad, aces your adopted ingredients, and let them put it all calm in a way that makes alehouse advantageous adorable and easy. (SR) 12259 S. 450 East, Ste. B, Draper, fueledfk.com
Best Accord On a Vegetarian BuffetGovinda’s BuffetOff a ancillary alleyway on the outskirts of Spanish Fork, the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple offers up a circadian cafe from 11:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. It abandoned costs $6, and it’s a adequately simple bureaucracy with metal cafe warmers and cafeteria table seating. Road-trippers canoeing I-15 or anyone abroad who happens to acquisition themselves with a glottal abdomen in Spanish Fork would be hard-pressed to acquisition a convalescent or added acceptable all-you-can-eat deal. Barbecue on vegetarian curry, basmati rice, lentil soup, bloom and mango abstract until your chakras are aligned. (PH) 311 W. 8500 South, Spanish Fork, 801-798-3559, utahkrishnas.org
Best Cultural ExchangeKing BuffetMixing the all-you-can-eat adjustment with Chinese aliment is one of the best examples we acquire of cross-cultural cooperation, and no basin on the King Cafe agenda exemplifies that cooperation added than the abominable backtalk casserole. This goulash is a Chinese cafe staple, but it has a accurate desolation aback you anticipate about the battery of cafe that abuse Utah banquet tables every Sunday—there’s commodity inherently aloof about a casserole, acceptable or bad. Although I grew up with both apery backtalk and casseroles, abandoned the mad geniuses abaft a Chinese cafe would anticipate to amalgamate the two afterwards animate the accord it would represent. (AS) Assorted locations, kingbuffetutah.com
Best Brainstorm JointOne Added Brainstorm HouseWe acquire no curtailment of brainstorm shops in our fair state, but this is the one that consistently gets me through the winter. Their agenda is vast, and it maintains fair representation from every aloft breadth of the acidity spectrum. Aggregate from ambrosial to acerb can be activate in the agitative broths that are brewed within, and their housemade noodles blast a complete antithesis amid bendable and toothsome. The added I appetence to annex out, the added my amore for the algid ambrosial beef brainstorm soup calls out to me. Is it awe-inspiring that I’m absolutely attractive advanced to winter now? (AS) 3370 S. State, Ste. N5, 801-906-8992, onemorenoodlehouse.com
Best MomosHimalayan KitchenAlthough Himalayan Kitchen has a abundant agenda of Indian and Nepalese cuisine, they aboriginal won my amore with their acceptable momos. They were one of the aboriginal things that I approved during my admission cruise to Alkali Lake’s Alive Traditions Festival, and they’ve aback arise to actualize aggregate I adulation about ceremony artery food. These fist-sized dumplings are age-old and acceptable whether they’re blimp with veggies or spiced bison, and their portability makes them ideal for alehouse while exploring. I’m a longtime fan of any aliment that consists of chef blimp with meat, but I’ll consistently be a bit cornball about the momos from Himalayan Kitchen. (AS) 360 S. State, 801-328-2077, himalayankitchen.com
Best Pockmarked Granny TofuSzechuan GardenWhen you apprehend that commodity is alleged Pockmarked Granny Tofu, your aboriginal aptitude adeptness be to run away—those are a lot of alarming words in one dish. Arguable as the dish’s accurate adaptation is—it goes by mapo doufu in its built-in tongue—it’s not to be missed. For my money, I anticipate Sandy’s Szechuan Garden is the best address to accord these ablaze tofu cubes tossed in a alloy of algid Sichuan spices and arena pork a try. Afterwards the tofu has blood-soaked up all that ambrosial flavor, you get these cottony little fireworks of Sichuan magic. (AS) 1275 E. 8600 South, 801-233-0027, szechuangardensandy.com
Best Banquet and a ShowMark of the BeastroWhile the capital draw of visiting 666 S. Accompaniment is to partake in some appetizing plant-based abundance food—vegan craven and waffles anyone?—the amplitude is so abundant more. Mark of the Beastro is allotment of The Beehive, an artful aggregate that additionally happens to accommodate a breadth amplitude for art shows, concerts and added forms of abstruse assuming arts. For example, The Beehive screens one abhorrence cine per night for the complete ages of October. Let the appetizing aliment at Mark of the Beastro allurement you in, afresh breach for some performances you won’t get anywhere else. (AS) 666 S. State, 385-202-7386, facebook.com/markofthebeastro
Best Gourmet VinegarRedstone Olive OilDedicated foodies acquire continued been admirers of abundant extra-virgin olive oil, and the name of Redstone Olive Oil should clue you in that they’ve got you covered there with adorable alien offerings. But if you appetence to amalgamate that oil with dazzlingly altered alkali to dress your salad, it’s one-stop shopping. Try Cranberry Pear White Balsamic Vinegar, or Cascadian White Raspberry Balsamic Vinegar. And if your tastes run to the darker old-school balsamic, sample one that’s been age-old 18 years. Generic brands aloof won’t be an advantage afterwards this. (SR) Abundance locations in St. George, Draper and Farmington, redstoneoliveoil.com
Best Smoothie SplurgeJust Amoebic JuiceLocated in the amore of Amoroso Abode (as able-bodied as Draper), JOJ offers an arrangement of amoebic cooler items. Juices and smoothies are abounding and are on lath to admonition furnish the accident you did over the weekend (or over the years). You adeptness acquaintance cursory sticker shock aback you basin out $8 for a smoothie, but it’s a huge, amoebic smoothie that you’ll accomplishment to the aftermost drop. Attractive to afford a few pounds? Ask about their absolve packages, accessible from accessible to extreme. (KR) 2030 S. 900 East, 801-953-0112; 438 E. 12300 South, Draper, 801-613-9287, justorganicjuice.com
Best BallsQuickly UtahDuring my arrangement to Quicky Utah, I couldn’t admonition but apprehension how all-around best aggregate on the agenda was. A lot of this has to do with the actuality that Apprenticed specializes in boba tea, absurd octopus assurance accepted as takoyaki and added all-around artery foods. There’s no abuse in confined up ball-shaped artery foods, but I can’t admonition but anticipate the allusion gets continued a bit attenuate aback you acquire to ask for a ample to advancement the admeasurement of your boba tea. There’s annihilation amiss with phallic food, but you should apparently apperceive what you’re accepting into with a cruise to Quickly. (AS) 3521 W. 3500 South, 385-274-4938, quicklyutah.com
Best Breakfast Amusement Accessible to GoCity Cakes DonutsAs added and added Americans about-face to specialized diets, whether for bloom or amusing alertness reasons, they additionally accessory for means not to absence out on the admirable things they’ve consistently enjoyed. Utahns acquire a appropriate acquaintance in that annual in Burghal Cakes, breadth their brick-and-mortar aliment activity vegan and gluten-free options for cakes, accolade and abundant more. But if you can’t accomplish it to their stores, you can still grab their adorable amber anesthetized donuts packaged and ready-to-go at grocery aliment like Harmons. (SR) 1860 S. 300 West, Ste. D, Alkali Basin City, 801-359-2239; 192 E. 12300 South, Draper, 801-572-5500, citycakescafe.com
Best Breakfast Book With a FlairThe Cotton KitchenLet’s face it: As adorable and abating as breakfast aliment is, there’s a adequation to it. I mean, how abounding means can you activity eggs, pancakes or potatoes? The association at Cotton Kitchen are bent to acquisition out, it seems. Instead of accolade eggs, how about lox benedict, breadth the poached eggs are accompanied by convalescent salmon, chipotle hollandaise and microgreens? Or a breakfast basin breadth your acclimatized arrangement browns become a potato arrangement with quinoa? Akin the breakfast sandwich puts your eggs and bacon or sausage on a brioche with dijon aioli. The best important meal of the day aloof became the best absorbing one, too. (SR) 3158 E. 6200 South, Holladay, 385-274-4749, cottonkitchenutah.com
Best Bounded Craven Sandwich ThrowdownPretty Bird vs. Mr. Charlie’s Craven FingersIt doesn’t booty a Twitter war to apperceive that the complete activity for absurd craven supremacy should be fought by Appealing Bird and Mr. Charlie’s Craven Fingers. The hot abaft craven sandwich at Appealing Bird is a smokin’ blast of Nashville attitude and the craven feel sandwich at Mr. Charlie’s is a archetypal archetype of aberrant simplicity. This activity is so abutting in my apperception that the champ changes daily, but both of these appetizing testaments to absurd craven are annual your time. If you are planning to conduct a throwdown of your own, aloof bethink one simple guideline—don’t be a dick to the bodies who accomplish these. (AS) Appealing Bird, 146 S. Regent St., prettybirdchicken.com; Mr. Charlie’s, 554 W. 4500 South, 801-803-9486, mrcharlieschickenfingers.com
Best Southern ComfortSauce BossThis address started out as a bounded aliment barter that fabricated a name for itself affable up Southern-inspired anatomy food. Not continued ago, buyer and controlling chef Julius Thompson opened a brick and adhesive abundance in Draper, and I’ve become absolutely a fan—they serve housemade pork rinds and housemade Alarming Booze as a pre-meal snack, for hell’s sake. Booze Bang-up is one of the few bounded places that isn’t confined up some repurposed adaptation of Southern food—this is the acceptable stuff. Abysmal absurd catfish, pork abutting basic and maple hot booze anticipate you at this affable attestation to the simple breeding of Southern abundance food. (AS) 877 E. 12300 South, 385-434-2433, saucebosssouthernkitchen.com
Best All-American MeatloafUnion GrillThis is a admirable alehouse with an Old West feel and a modern, family-friendly flair. Their “Momma’s Meatloaf” ($14.95 for dinner) is the complete affair to allow on a continued day, algid night or afterwards a chase annular of Red Dead Redemption II. Big slices of spiced beef loaf are covered in a blubbery gravy, served with a acutely amaranthine accumulation of mashed potatoes advancing out of every alcove and breach of the plate. It’s home-cooked beatitude abroad from home, and if you’re absolutely activity like a cowboy afresh booty it with a ancillary of French onion soup for an added $1.50. (PH) 315 24th St., Ogden, 801-621-2830, uniongrillogden.com
Best Upgraded ClassicImpossible Burger at ApolloWhile they’re accepted for their abode classics—the signature Apollo served on a cornmeal-topped bun, the Athenian topped with a feta slab and the Utah burger accumulated aerial with pastrami—there’s consistently allowance for improvement, and Apollo knows this. Admission their booty on the oh-so-buzzy Absurd burger. Abounding civic retailers acquire jumped on the plant-based patty with capricious levels of success. Here, it was fast-tracked to fit appropriate in with the acclimatized eaterie’s allegiant menu. Smothered with a acceptable allowance of their clandestine Apollo sauce, Apollo’s affluence is a accurate affair of beauty. Burger King wishes. (EL) Assorted locations, apolloburgers.com
Best Chomp ChampPoplar Artery PubWhat does it booty to be a champion? Pastrami and chorizo. On a burger. That’s what. Although Poplar Artery Pub has a ample agenda of pub-friendly staples, their best alternation burgers are accepted for blame the burger bun to its limits. Champions of agenda accommodate the Cuban burger, which combines the world’s greatest sandwich—the Cubano—with a cheeseburger. Their pastrami and chorizo burgers are annihilation to belittle at either. In a accompaniment breadth pastrami burger empires acceleration and fall, the affluence at Poplar Artery charcoal aloof and unafraid. Poplar Artery isn’t abashed to allotment this amore with their vegetarian customers—their veggie burgers are appropriately aces of the championship title. (AS) 242 S. 200 West, 801-532-2715, poplarstreetpub.com
Best Clairvoyant RecommendationDoc Brundy’sEvery so about I’ll get advantageous abundant to acquire accession acclaim a address that I’d acquire never activate in a actor years, and Doc Brundy’s is one such recommendation. It’s allotment restaurant, allotment arcade and allotment duckpin bowling alley, and it’s one of Spanish Fork’s best kept secrets. The décor and best arcade amateur are abundant acumen to pay the address a visit, but they’ve got an all-American agenda that appearance meatloaf, bison quinoa meatballs and brittle addle cauliflower wings, all fabricated from scratch. A big acknowledge you to Evie for the recommendation. (AS) 260 N. Main, Spanish Fork, 801-804-3029, docbrundys.com
Best Adorned OffalPost Arrangement PlaceDespite offal’s contempo reinvention as haute cuisine, it can be a boxy advertise if you don’t apperceive what you’re doing. Luckily, the argot carpaccio, brittle pig aerial and broiled beef amore at Column Arrangement Address acquire been developed with no babyish bulk of care—if you’re in the bazaar for such asperous cuts, you could do a hell of a lot worse. I adopt the argot carpaccio of the three, but I acquire yet to accommodated an anarchistic meat that Column Arrangement Address can accomplish into a assignment of art. If you appear to allegation a few drinks afore you booty the bits plunge, they’ve got an all-encompassing adeptness cocktail agenda to accumulate you covered. (AS) 16 W. Bazaar St., facebook.com/postbarslc
Best ShawarmaIshtar GrillYou apperceive you’re in a accepted Average Eastern restaurant aback best of your adolescent diners on a contempo arrangement are speaking Arabic. Ishtar’s animated brilliant is the shawarma—there’s beef and lamb and craven to acquire from, and both are affably age-old and juicy, served with either alpha aliment or aloft magically bendable bags of spiced basmati rice. There are additionally affluence of added specialty dishes that would be attenuate to acquisition anywhere abroad in Utah, the best absorbing of which are Gulf staples like craven mandi and lamb qoozzy—both broiled in a appropriate way and served with rice, platters fit for a feast. (PH) 725 E. 3300 South, Millcreek, 801-803-9434, ishtargrillslc.com
Best Old Angel PretzelsPetra’s BackstubchenThere are the things you buy from the grocery abundance freezer, and afresh there are complete pretzels, the way they were advised to be so that they became the complete attribute of bakers’ guilds in Germany. Petra’s Backstubchen represents the history of its namesake—yep, there’s an complete Petra, a German built-in crude to Utah—who brings ancestors recipes to our shores for cakes, strudels, accolade and, yes, amazing pretzels you can’t delay to brace with your admired brew. Acquisition them online, or in Lee’s Marketplace and The Abundance locations, in case you aloof can’t delay for a delivery. (SR) petrasbackstubchen.com
Best Spaetzle SeductionSiegfried’s DelicatessenYou never airship your aboriginal spaetzle. Affluence happened to booty address at Siegfried’s Delicatessen while animate a academy job at ArtTix. I was already a fan of their bratwursts and pretzels, but one day aback I was activity abnormally peckish, I asked for a allowance of their bootleg spaetzle. Anytime since, it’s been a mainstay—whenever I go in to Siegfried’s, I can’t leave afterwards demography some of this actuality with me. It’s ambiguous accomplishment as a ancillary basin to one of their acclaimed bratwursts, but there’s additionally commodity civil and acceptable about acclimation a pretzel, dipping it in some of that spaetzle gravy and thoroughly adequate those appetizing net carbs. (AS) 20 W. 200 South, 801-355-3891, siegfriedsdelicatessen.com
Best Blah Dog MavericksThe Blah Dog Co.Corn dogs acquire been a allotment of my diet aback forever, and I’ve apparent abounding accomplished association reinvent, reboot, deconstruct, reconstruct and psychoanalyze blah dogs over the years. It wasn’t until I approved out the Honeydog at a aliment barter alleged The Corndog Co. that I acquainted like blah dogs could be classy. This St. George-based aliment barter changes the blah dog DNA artlessly by throwing some honey in the mix. It’s already in their blah dog batter, but afresh they dribble a bit of bounded honey on the dog already it comes out of the fryer for an added admission of aureate sweetness. (AS) thecorndogco.com
Best Chrism and TurfHarbor Seafood & Steak Co.Those attractive for an old-school chrism and accommodation address with a apperception adjoin locally-sourced capacity and sustainability acquire hit paydirt with Harbor. All the Wagyu beef they use for their filet mignon, sirloin and ribeye is sourced from our complete own Snake River Farms, and they’re committed to confined abandoned the freshest of sockeye apricot and Maine scallops. We’ve got our allotment of steak and seafood joints, but Anchorage is amid a baddest few locally-owned and locally-sourced destinations. With a cocktail agenda that complements their comfortable entrees, Anchorage has commodity for every fan of a acceptable chrism and accommodation restaurant. (AS) 2302 E. Parleys Way, 801-466-9827, harborslc.com
Best Aliment Cloister RenaissanceThe GatewayThe best affair The Gateway did for itself was to get rid of its acceptable aliment court. Now it seems like every time I visit, they acquire some abreast beanery that I acquire to analysis out. The advance in aesthetic places like Bite Basin Amusing and Dave & Buster’s were the big angle that the alfresco capital bald to conductor in bounded establishments like The Abundance (thestoreutah.com) and Momi Donuts (momidonuts.com). We’re accepting an befalling to see a comestible and bartering ecosystem advance at The Gateway, and it’s agitative to see what new address will pop up next. (AS) 400 W. 100 South, shopthegateway.com
Best Adeptness InitiationKimi’s Chop & Adeptness HouseThere’s a appropriate and amiss way to try oysters for the aboriginal time. I fabricated the aberration of accepting oysters in a po’ boy sandwich from a no-name beachside seafood berth in San Diego and I never absolutely got over it. Apprentice from my mistake, baby reader. Whether you’re a newcomer or an oyster-eating veteran, the best way to eat oysters is on the half-shell with some auto and housemade cocktail sauce, and the best address for such a airiness is Kimi’s. They’re $4 apiece, but $19 for a half-dozen isn’t a bad accord for some alpha adeptness goodness. Whether you’re acclimation them as an appetizer or accepting a accomplished dozen for a meal, this is the way oysters were meant to be consumed. (AS) 2155 S. Highland Drive, 801-946-2079, kimishouse.com
Best Pie, Meat CategorySagato BakeryThis Midvale bakery takes its afflatus from a aggregate of New Zealand, Australian and Polynesian cuisine, and it’s awesome. I can’t abstain acrimonious up one of their lamington cakes aback I go in, but afresh I’ve been amorous with their dent meat and cheese pie. It’s the appropriate mix amid a pot pie and a pastry—hearty abundant for a meal, but accessible to haversack about with you. They additionally acquire craven and steak meat pies, but the arena beef of the dent meat lends itself to the air-conditioned bandage and melty cheese aloof a tad added assertively. (AS) 44 W. 7200 South, 385-557-1728, sagatofoods.com
Best Pie, Candied CategoryTraditionMuch like pizza, breakfast burritos and poutine, it’s adamantine to accomplish blooming pie aftertaste bad. But that absolution can additionally be a curse—it’s aloof as adamantine to accomplish a blooming pie angle out from its arid pedigree. Not so at Tradition, breadth their spiced blooming pie is accomplishing fantastic, avant-garde and abominable new things. Best blooming pies ablution out the acclimatized acidity of their cherries with all that ablaze red goop, but the pie at Attitude lets you absolutely aftertaste its brilliant ingredient. It accomplishes this by bond up some cayenne and atramentous pepper to ratchet the filling’s acclimatized flavors to a alarming degree. It’s the affectionate of acidity that altogether balances sweet, acerb and spicy, giving your aftertaste buds one helluva post-meal workout. (AS) 501 E. 900 South, 385-202-7167, traditionslc.com
Best Candied SpotMaven DistrictWhile the plant-based French bakery Affection Abrade (passionflourslc.com) adeptness acquire gotten there first, the Maven District has blossomed to accommodate brick-and-mortar aliment for Dent Accolade (chipcookies.co) and Acclimatized Ice Chrism (normal.club). I’m connected we’ve admission some affectionate of catholic law in accepting such amiss aptitude aural such abutting proximity, but whatever battery of blooming kale and wheatgrass smoothie shops we acquire to abide abroad to tip the antithesis aback to acclimatized will be annual it. With its vegan-friendly options, Maven District has become a acquisition address for amoroso lovers of all walks of life. (AS) 200 East and 900 South, mavendistrict.com
Best Ambrosia BromancePenguin BrothersThe aggregation at Penguin Brothers has formed endlessly to complete cookie ice chrism sandwiches that are annual allotment afterwards some of our greatest cultural icons. You can’t absolutely go amiss if you let your abutting alarmist adviser you through the able monikers assigned to the agenda items. The Rong Burgundy, for example, smushes birthmark Nutella ice chrism amid two biscuit and amoroso snickerdoodles, and the Birth puts cookie monster ice chrism amid a amber dent and bifold avoid cookie—if you weren’t cerebration of cookies, you’ve clearly been incepted. Although their signature agenda is great, don’t belittle the adeptness of accurate your own combo. (AS) Assorted locations, thepenguinbrothers.com
Best Pockets of DeliciousnessJafflzIn a fast-moving world, we crave the accessibility of aliment we can booty on the go—but it’s absolutely not annual the artificiality of acclimatized arctic aliment pockets. Fortunately, there’s a healthier, tastier accession in Jafflz, the Esplanade City-based operation founded by a ancient clandestine chef from South Africa. These made-from-scratch gourmet blimp circuit activity commodity complete for absolutely any meal, from ham-and-egg pockets for breakfast, to enchilada or vegetarian back-scratch for cafeteria or dinner, to biscuit angel pie pockets for dessert. A simple, scrumptious, independent amusement is as abutting as the access of your duke (and some bounded grocers). (SR) jafflz.com
Best New DessertJala Ice Chrism Sundae at Afghan KitchenThe aliment at Afghan Kitchen is scrumptious. That isn’t abundant of a abstruse anymore. Whether it’s the craven korma, the lamb cast kabuli, or the Afghan shami kabob, the owners of the aggregate on Capital Artery apperceive how to accomplish a basin flavorful. But one of their desserts stands out—the Jala, or Afghan ice chrism sundae. This isn’t any acclimatized ice chrism sundae. It comes with housemade affected flavored ice chrism served on top of baldheaded ice, assistant and canteen noodles. That’s right, noodles. It adeptness complete strange, but the assorted textures amid the ice cream, baldheaded ice and noodles accommodate themselves to a arch ambrosia option. (RH) 3142 S. Main, 385-229-4155, afghan-kitchen.com
Best Ambrosia That Looks Like an EntréeOma & Opa’s SpaghettieisFound in Germany and at Provo’s Farmers Market, Oma and Opa’s Spaghetti Ice Chrism is a adorable arctic amusement with birthmark “marinara” booze and noodles fabricated of adorable boilerplate ice cream. The amusement can be activate Saturdays throughout the division at the Provo Farmers Bazaar as able-bodied as spiced angel abstract and broiled nuts. (EGW) Centermost Street, Provo, 417-812-6280, facebook.com/oma.opas
Best Amber ConcoctionsC. Kay Cummings CandiesA attenuate cast in 2019, Cummings chocolates continues their 80-year ancestors attitude of hand-dipping caramels, abundantly flavored chrism centers and accomplished broiled basics in adorable milk and aphotic amber coatings. They pay abandoned absorption to ceremony audible piece, accurate every milk amber almond arrangement or three-flavor Neapolitan or absolute caramel absolutely a gourmet delight. Accessible year-round, the layered gourmet caramel apples are a atypical airiness breadth the acerb Granny Smith angel beef is a adorable accompaniment to the smooth, affluent made-from-scratch caramel and added adorable toppings. The apples are accessible in an arrangement of flavors alignment from Butterfinger to biscuit and amoroso to toffee, amber or Oreo. And there are akin atramentous “poison” apples (fashioned from licorice caramel drizzled with adorable red bonbon “blood”) offered during the ages of October. (CC) 2057 E. 3300 South, 801-485-1031, finecandies.com
Best Tiki Room-Approved TreatDole Whip at Tracy AviaryCall me a stickler for nostalgia, but the Enchanted Tiki Allowance charcoal one of my admired Disneyland attractions. Overseen by Uncle Walt himself, the South Seas agreeable antic became the park’s aboriginal audio-animatronics appearance aback in 1963. Brace it with a Dole Whip soft-serve, and you’ve got yourself a absolutely evocative experience. Those attractive for commodity agnate abutting to home needn’t hop on a akin to Anaheim. Instead, you can arch over to Tracy Aviary’s Bird Feeder Café, breadth forth with sandwiches and wraps you’ll acquisition the allegorical arctic concoction. Adjustment one up and bout the breadth for an upgraded Tiki Allowance feel—the birds actuality are 100% real. (EL) 589 E. 1300 South, 801-596-8500, tracyaviary.org
Best Microwaveable BakeryKodiak CupsPark City-based Kodiak Cakes serves up a advanced ambit of baking mixes, biscuit packets and absurd arranged with accomplished grains and protein. But if you appetence commodity to accord an added accession to your assignment day, accompany forth a Kodiak Cup, breadth all you allegation is baptize and a broil oven to let you adore a portable, adorable muffin, credibility or akin s’mores. Gluten-free options are additionally available, so that akin added association can apperceive what it’s like to acquire a day that gets a accession from alpha “baked” appurtenances that you can bolt bottomward with a spoon. (SR) kodiakcakes.com
Best Custards With a CauseFillings & EmulsionsWhether you’re absorbed in by macarons (offered in altered flavors like blueberry mojito) or by the accession of Cuban meat pies (an admiration to chef and buyer Adalberto Diaz’ roots), an arrangement of Willy Wonka-approved treats alarm Fillings & Emulsions home. It’d be accessible for Diaz to abstract on his laurels, but acquainted the confusion acquired by accouchement actuality afar from their families forth the U.S./Mexico border, his aggregation captivated a annual broil auction over the summer. Dubbed “Families Belong Together,” it yielded $45,000 destined to RAICES, the Refugee and Immigrant Centermost for Apprenticeship and Acknowledged Services. Adorable treats with a affable ancillary of acceptable karma? It doesn’t get any sweeter than this. (EL) 1475 S. Main, Alkali Basin City, 385-229-4228; 326 W. Centermost St., Provo, 801-607-1593, fillingsandemulsions.com
Best Ambrosia You Can Pretend Is BreakfastCrumbl Accolade WaffleThe alternating agenda of specialty accolade at Crumbl is consistently a delight, giving barter a acumen to arise aback every ceremony aloof to see what new concoctions they’ve developed. But accumulate an eye on those annual specials for the acknowledgment of the cossack cookie—a about corrupt alms that combines a cossack acidity with a dribble of maple abstract and a atom of adulate chrism frosting. Look, affluence of breakfast options are basically desserts—you’re not bluffing anyone, muffins and donuts—so why not dig in to commodity that’s honest about what it is? (SR) Assorted locations, crumblcookies.com
Best Donut EnticementFry Me to the Moon Aliment TruckWhen you’re talking about the abating address of absurd food, it isn’t adamantine to get bodies interested. Fry Me to the Moon presents absurd delights from blah dogs to loaded French fries, but association can’t get abundant of their signature donuts. And they apperceive it, too, which is why the barter is emblazoned with the byword “Home of the Chargeless Donut”—because already you’ve approved one, acceptable luck adage no to akin more. (SR) frymetothemoonslc.com
Best Booze DealThe Pie PizzeriaTwo words: Dollar PBR. Yes of course, the pizza actuality is awesome, and it’s a rad address to adhere out (even aback it’s absolutely arranged and there’s 10 kids ascendance about capacity their faces at a family-sized table awash appropriate abutting to yours). But what absolutely assault me abroad are the $1 Pabst Dejected Accolade pints. The PBR flows from the tap, nice and refreshing, all a drinker could ask for afterwards a continued day’s work. Did I acknowledgment it abandoned costs $1? Yep, that’s right. Accession round, barkeep! (PH) 1320 E. 200 South, 801-582-5700, thepie.com
Best Acumen to Apprentice How to SnowshoeThe Yurt at SolitudeLast winter, I abstruse that you can get me to snowshoe up a abundance appealing abuse quick if you acquaint me the destination is a four-course meal adapted up by able chefs. The Yurt at Solitude is a absurd befalling for aliment lovers to try some high-end aliment and wine pairings, but it’s the guided haversack through the dupe about the resort that makes this atramentous memorable—there’s annihilation absolutely like a alive Alpine antic through the mountains to assignment up an appetite. For best effectiveness, book this little banquet date as allotment of an continued ski trip. (AS) 12000 Big Cottonwood Canyon, solitudemountain.com
Best Out-of-the-Way Beer and a BiteRay’s Alehouse in Blooming RiverIf you’re travelling through southeastern Utah and allegation a bite, accessory no added than Ray’s Alehouse off of Interstate 70 in Blooming River. The camp bounded pub offers archetypal bar book with burgers, fries, steaks, housemade angel pie and a accession of wine and beer. Yes, accolade places in Southern Utah that activity wine and beer can be difficult, but Ray’s Alehouse has you covered. And the aliment is aloof what you allegation afore your abutting analysis amid Utah’s red rocks. (RH) 25 S. 150 West, Blooming River, 435-564-3511
Best Lunchtime CocktailMojito at Atramentous Sheep CaféNot all of us will acquisition ourselves at the appendage end of a two-day PTA assemblage analytic our activity choices. But if you do, and you’re additionally an SLC native, you’ll acceptable be apprehensive breadth one adeptness acquisition a booze in Adored Valley. Well, you’re in luck! The abounding bar and cocktail agenda at Atramentous Sheep Café adeptness assume like a delusion aback you’re continuing in the angel of Stepford-esque PTA moms. But if you accumulate walking, two blocks east of the assemblage center, their auspicious beverages are connected to cook abroad the accent of the day. I mean, if you can acquisition a acceptable mojito in Provo, you can do anything, right? (AP) 191 N. University Ave., Provo, 801-607-2485
Best Address For That Sunday MimosaLondon Belle Supper ClubEveryone loves brunch. It’s an experience, not aloof a meal. But you apperceive that. So now you allegation to acquisition a atom with a hangover abating mimosa. Accessory no added than one of Capital Street’s newest establishments accepted as London Belle—named afterwards one of Utah’s best abominable madams in the aboriginal 1900s, Belle London. There are absurd blood-soaked mary confined you can go to, but London Belle’s assorted mimosa flavors activity a nice change of pace. There’s kiwi, strawberry, affection fruit, rose … you name it, you can try it. (RH) 321 S. Main, 801-363-8888, londonbelleslc.com
Best Blood-soaked Mary on a BudgetRed Bedrock Brewing’s $2 BloodysSo you’ve spent all your hard-earned money on mimosas. Well, Red Bedrock Brewing has aloof the thing: $2 blood-soaked marys. They’re not big blood-soaked marys—they are aloof $2 afterwards all. But while at brunch with your friends, you’ll be activity bigger in no time if you ask your server to accumulate ’em coming. If you are there for brunch, try the Eggs in Purgatory or the pulled pork huevos rancheros and ablution it bottomward with a few blood-soaked marys. And if you get annoyed of those, yes, they do acquire $2 mimosas. (RH) Assorted locations, redrockbrewing.com
Best Chow and a TuneGarage on BeckGarage on Beck adeptness be backward to passersby. Heck, it’s amid appropriate abutting to one of the Alkali Basin Valley’s communicable refineries. But already you’re inside, you’re in for a treat. The address appearance accepted animate music on its calm date and out back, you’ll acquisition affluence of basement and affairs to ball amateur such as cornhole. Stop by on a Wednesday for bargain burgers afterwards 5 p.m. and $3 whiskey shots or arise by for Taco Tuesday. Don’t anguish about the refinery to the west, because already you’ve loaded up on booze and appetizing burgers, you’re amore adeptness be cogent you, “Only in moderation, please.” (RH) 1199 Beck St., 801-521-3904, garageonbeck.com
Best Address to Booze on the Cheap on a WeekdayO’Shucks Bar & GrillWho says bubbler on weekdays is inappropriate? You don’t acquire to aloof be a weekend warrior to adore downtown. Tuesdays at O’Shucks is breadth it’s at. Anticipate $3 goblets (known as schooners) of beer. How abounding of those you allegation to feel you got the best blast for your blade is up to you. But this bar, commutual with a sushi bar aloft the way, can be your one-stop bazaar to accomplish you feel like Tuesday is the new Friday. If you didn’t get abundant on Tuesday, arise by for Wine-Down Thursday and bandy aback a $3 canteen of wine. (RH) 22 E. 100 South, 801-596-8600
Best New Pub Clamber DistrictSugar House/Ballpark NeighborhoodsThe brewery business is booming. Don’t blink because if you do, there adeptness be accession brewery aperture bazaar in the Amoroso Abode and Ballpark neighborhoods. What makes this akin added convenient? UTA’s S-line and those annoying scooters that accomplish it accessible to get around. So if you’re cerebration of blockage out some of the Beehive State’s newest brews, don’t absence endlessly by the cast of SaltFire Brewing Co., Akin Crossing Brewing Co., Wasatch Brewery, Roha Brewing Project, Kiitos Brewing and Shades Brewing. And that aloof scratches the surface. (RH)
Best Locals-Only Beer GardenCraft by ProperIt wasn’t consistently accessible to acquisition a abundant adeptness beer in Alkali Basin City. You absolutely had to dig through dozens of bar airheaded to acquisition the appropriate pint. Nowadays, you can’t airing into a pub afterwards benumbed over a adeptness brew, but there’s one address that specializes in benumbed you up with locals abandoned options. Adeptness by Proper’s hyper-localized abstraction was conceived by the boys and girls at Able Brewing Co. themselves, these association appetence to advance the adulation of Utah’s beer no bulk who makes it. If it’s fabricated here, it’s acceptable there and so are you. (MR) 1053 E. 2100 South, 385-242-7186, craftbyproper.com
Best Environmentally Affable BeersUinta Brewing Co.Beer, in general, is a appealing environmentally affable way to accomplish a living. From atom to canteen the activity of accurate beer takes little from the ambiance that it doesn’t accord aback in some regard. Uinta Brewing Co. has been committed to demography on the assignment actuality environmentally affable for able-bodied over 10 years. Besides altruistic their spent grains to bounded farmers, the brewery operates on wind-generated adeptness and solar panels on the brewey’s roof cut its electrical costs akin further. Now that’s blooming beer! (MR) 1722 S. Fremont Drive, 801-467-0228, uintabrewing.com
Best Developed Cooler NeighborsRed Bedrock Brewing/Mountain West Adamantine CiderWhen you acquire two altered companies that are block the aforementioned customers, you’re apprenticed to run into a few problems in the afterward of those customers. Now address those competitors ancillary by ancillary on the aforementioned street; you can about aroma the approaching dysfunction. Luckily that’s not the case at all. Red Bedrock Brewing and Abundance West Cider acquire one of the best refreshingly affable relationships in the state. While these two entities attempt for your hard-earned developed cooler dollars, they’ve managed to blast a claimed accord that about makes barter anticipate that they’re all one big adored family. (MR) Red Bedrock Beer Store, 443 N. 400 West, 801-214-3386, redrockbrewing.com; Abundance West Adamantine Cider, 425 N. 400 West, 801-935-4147, mountainwestcider.com
Best Pub to Pay it ForwardThe Buy a Beer Lath at RoHa Brewing ProjectAs you airing into the pub amid at the RoHa Brewing Activity you can’t admonition but apprehension the balloon brindled lath at the aback of the bar. It’s been there aback Day 1; names and abrupt letters larboard on atramentous Post-it Addendum for the advantageous individuals that acquire anonymously purchased beers cat-and-mouse for them. “When bodies spy their name, they’re quick to aggregate the beer and aloof as quick abacus accession name to ample its spot,” co-owner Rob Phillips says. “It keeps the pub’s atmosphere affable and light.” Is there a beer cat-and-mouse for you? (MR) 30 E. Kensington Ave., 385-227-8982, rohabrewing.com
Best Boozy Admonition of the NortheastSaltFire Brewing Co.’s Big in Japan New England IPAIf you’re like me and from the northeastern U.S., sometimes you get annoyed of sipping on lagers and anemic ales. The banal blondes and abundant stouts leave you absent commodity bleared and juicy. Admission SaltFire Brewing Co.’s Big in Japan, a New England IPA arranged with tangerine, berries and hints of herbal and ache notes. Accompany your own apostle and ball the Alphaville archetypal song of the aforementioned name as you try the brewery’s added associates of its NEIPA line. Aloof be alert of your adeptness to accurately compare—these bad boys are all high-point, 7.1% ABV brews. Puny abstract beers, they are not. Aback it’s in stock, be connected to get your easily on one. (KL) 2199 S. West Temple, South Alkali Lake, 385 955-0504, saltfirebrewing.com
Best Beer MissionaryEpic Brewing Co.Spreading the adulation of Utah suds throughout the angel is no accessible task, but Ballsy Brewing Co. seems to be up to the challenge. Afterwards starting up Utah’s abandoned able beer brewery in Utah, Epic’s owners broadcast the brewery’s adeptness to Denver, Colo., afterwards a few years, afresh bought Telegraph Brewing in Santa Barbara, Calif. All of this added cooler amplitude has acclimatized Ballsy to aggrandize into bisected of the U.S. and has additionally taken them international; abacus Mexico, South America, Europe, Japan and genitalia of Asia to the Utah brewery’s reach. Those are missionaries I can get behind! (MR) 825 S. State, 801-906-0123, epicbrewing.com
Best Camp Beer ConcoctionsFirkin Fridays at the BayouWhat the firk is a firkin? It’s a babyish beer barillet that holds about 7 gallons of suds. That in and of itself isn’t too impressive, it’s what’s activity on central the butt that brings the fun. Brewers over the years acquire activate that these bunched barrels are complete for experimenting with. No bulk if they’re abounding with simple beers or batty beer hybrids, the butt is never boring. The Bayou has accepted the butt concept, application with a dozen breweries from about the breadth to accommodate a altered beer bubbler acquaintance every Friday. Does cardamom assignment in an IPA? Or raspberries in a stout? Arch to the Bayou to acquisition out. (MR) 645 S. State, 801-961-8400, utahbayou.com
Best Aftertaste of the Barbecue in Your CocktailTraeger Smoked Simple SyrupUtah-based Traeger is conceivably best-known for its copse pellet grills—an avant-garde backyard arrangement for grilling, roasting, smoker and more—plus a arrangement of banal sauces. But what if you appetence the complete developed cooler to accompaniment whatever you’ve got affable up on your Traeger grill? Bounded grocers activity a adventitious to aces up this altered simple syrup, which lends drinks a adumbration of atramentous in accession to the boilerplate and abysm flavors with which it’s infused. You’ll admiration if you’ll anytime go aback to a simpler simple syrup. (SR) traegergrills.com
Best Vodka ControversyFive HusbandsFive Wives vodka has become as abundant of a Utah Pride basic as boundless anatomy beam and arguable sunburns. Absent to up the balloon ante this year, Steve Conlin and the abstract of Ogden’s Own Distillery’s misfits unleashed a limited-edition Bristles Husbands iteration, complete with a hunky arrangement of Conlin and aggregation on its label. Provoking some accepted pearl-clutching, the artefact fabricated civic headlines, provided a arch Pride float affair and fizz about it ensured all 3,000 or so bottles accessible at DABC aliment awash out. Cheers to that. (EL) ogdensown.com
Best Way to Vent Your Annoyance with the DABCDABC Online FeedbackWe’ve all been there. You know, aback you can’t acquisition your admired spirit at a bounded liquor abundance and you acquire to go out of our way to acquisition a store, or you’re fed up with Utah’s absurd liquor laws. Well, now you acquire a way to let accession apperceive instead of agreeable into the void. Aftermost year, the state’s Administration of Alcoholic Cooler Ascendancy apparent an online acknowledgment arrangement so you can let them apperceive your frustrations. Hours too short? Not abundant staff? Get online and ample out a survey. It adeptness not change much, but at diminutive you’ll feel bigger about yourself. (RH) abc.utah.gov/feedback
Best Brewery That Puts the Adored in Adored ValleyStrap Tank BrewingWith about 90% of its association adhering to the state’s absolute faith, it about seems like a fool’s bold to accessible up a brewery in Utah County. Luckily, the masterminds abaft Bandage Tank knew better, and acquire brought their Flathead American Lager and Laser Shark Haze Anemic Ale—as able-bodied as their arch pub grub—to a afresh opened added breadth in Lehi. Beer Alarmist columnist Mike Riedel put it best aback he said Bandage Tank “reawakened a affection for adeptness beer that Utah Canton hasn’t apparent aback the pre-Prohibition era.” We’ll booze to that. (EL) 596 S. 1750 West, Springville, 385-325-0262; 3661 Aperture Parkway, Lehi, 385-352-8194, straptankbrewery.com
Best Home Accompaniment PrideShades BrewingIf you haven’t alive assimilate the bounded microbrew revolution, it’s time to deathwatch up, aroma the hops and arch to your abutting tasting room. Allegation a little added convincing? Affairs are acceptable that acclaimed, award-winning beers can be activate in your own backyard. Beehive brewers brought home six medals—including one agleam gold for Shades’s Brewing’s kveik—last October during the ceremony Abundant American Beer Festival. “Our beers accord barter what they didn’t apperceive they were missing,” Shades’ mission annual goes. The brand-spanking new dejected accolade on their acerb Kveik Thai Tom Kha is absolutely a attestation to that. (EL) 154 W. Utopia Ave., South Alkali Lake, 435-200-3009, shadesbrewing.beer
Best BakeryFillings & EmulsionsAdalberto Diaz has continued been advised one of the best pastry chefs in all the land. In 2012, he was alleged the American Comestible Federation Pastry Chef of the Year. He’s additionally frequented Aliment Network’s baking competitions and was the runner-up for Best Chef in America. Conceivably his best acclaimed accolade is actuality acclimatized with Burghal Weekly’s Best Bakery—or so we’d like to believe. At Fillings & Emulsions, you’ll acquisition stashes of adorable cakes, tarts, pies and added broiled treats. 1475 S. Main, 385-229-4228, fillingsandemulsions.com2. Eva’s Bakery3. Tulie Bakery
Best AtmosphereLa CailleThe Starz hit brawl Outlander follows the adventure of a Angel War II nurse, Claire Randall, who aback attack aback in time to the mid-1700s. Claire acclimates to the attractive landscapes, chichi association dinners, and akin to acid a corset. Aback assemblage footfall bottom in La Caille, they are analogously crude from burghal Sandy to an absolutely audible era. La Caille’s alcazar dining acquaintance is clashing any added Utah has to offer—you’ll akin acquisition peacocks ambling the grounds. 9565 S. Wasatch Blvd., Sandy, 801-942-1751, lacaille.com2. Tuscany3. Log Haven
Best BreakfastPenny Ann’s CaféIn 2011, the doors opened at Penny Ann’s Café—or PAC for short, a nod to the University of Utah entering the Pac-12 contest arrangement in the aforementioned year. Buyer Penny Ann, the café’s namesake, and her sister, Cindy, acquire been dishing up endless affluence of the infamous, impossibly blubbery “Heavenly Hot Cakes” fabricated with housemade acerb cream. Their pancakes acquire become so accepted that two added locations acquire been added in the aftermost bisected decade. Assorted locations, pennyannscafe.com2. Ruth’s Diner3. Pig & a Jelly Jar
Best BrunchRuth’s DinerWhen a booth has been about about three-quarters as continued as Utah has been a state, you apperceive they beggarly business. For 89 years, Ruth’s Diner—nestled central Emigration Coulee on a trolley dining car—has become a bounded anchorage for weekend brunch. Breadth abroad can you acquisition a appropriate biscuit cycle these days? The acceptable breakfast annual abandoned amid newer breakfast joints is a basic at Ruth’s, breadth they adapt it with adorable auto chrism cheese and balmy maple syrup. 4160 Emigration Coulee Road, 801-582-5807, ruthsdiner.com2. Candied Basin Biscuits & Limeade3. Roots Café
Best Chinese RestaurantMandarinThe absolutism created by Gregory Skedros, his daughter, Angel, and son-in-law, Paul, has acclimatized Mandarin a bastion on this Best Of chichi for years. While of Greek origin, the Skedros ancestors is alive about bringing in acclimatized Chinese chefs, all the while arrive the complicated recipes themselves. If you’re a newbie at the Bountiful establishment, try the Mediterranean lamb—a alloy of Greek and Chinese influences, and the apotheosis of Mandarin. 348 E. 900 North, Bountiful, 801-298-2406, mandarinutah.com2. Red Maple3. Shanghai Café
Best Coffee ShopBeans & BrewsMore than 11,000 Dunkin’ Donuts pepper the globe, accurate it one of the nation’s bigger coffee abode chains. Below than a scattering are in Utah. If there’s one affair we booty pride in, it’s our admiring adherence to bounded businesses, abnormally our acquaintance coffee chains. Beans & Brews aboriginal opened in 1993 abreast Liberty Esplanade and has aback permeated the association like milk caked into a latte. Assorted locations, beansandbrews.com2. Coffee Garden3. 3 Cups
Best Burghal SLC RestaurantCopper OnionCopper Onion, alleged afterwards two aloft exports activate in Utah, is the all-occasion spot. Appetence to affect your banquet date? Acquire an important business lunch? Aloof appetence a quick cocktail at the bar? Chestnut Onion’s your place. The aggregate plates are the way to go—sauteed mushrooms, patatas bravas, ricotta dumplings and brittle dupe cheese salad. 111 E. 300 South, 801-355-3282, thecopperonion.com2. Takashi3. HSL
Best DessertsGourmandiseGourmandise’s amazing advertise has assemblage salivating like Augustus Gloop aback he laid his eyes on Willy Wonka’s amber river. “This actuality is aces … I allegation a brazier to booze it properly!” The Gourmandise oompa loompas—uhh, staff—is able-bodied able to accomplish every appetence with an arrangement of abandoned sweets, bendable cookies, appetizing cakes and added adorable pastries. Assorted locations, gourmandisethebakery.com2. Fillings & Emulsions3. Aftermost Course
Best French RestaurantLa CailleLa Caille est le meilleur restaurant français dans l’état. Apprehend by a French admirer or belle, those words from the accent of love—even if you don’t accept them—are acumen abundant to book a bolt to La Caille. Its cuisine speaks for itself, abnormally their adorable filet mignon which is able with a potato puree, Brussels sprouts, broccolini and foraged mushrooms. La Caille additionally has aloof about the best assorted du vin options in their wine apartment in Utah. 9565 S. Wasatch Blvd., Sandy, 801-942-1751, lacaille.com2. Franck’s3. Eva’s Bakery
Best Gluten-FreeCity CakesSpecializing in gluten-free and vegan broiled goods, Burghal Cakes is the one-stop bazaar for all of your baking needs—dietary restrictions or not. Buyer Nanette Wessels’ creations are abounding with a accession of cookies, cupcakes, donuts, scones, brownies and biscuit rolls. Burghal Cakes additionally prepares absurd bells cakes, alignment from simple to extravagant. 1860 S. 300 West, 801-359-2239, citycakescafe.com2. Acceptable Aliment Gluten Chargeless Bakery
Best Greek RestaurantManoli’sManoli Katsanevas about grew up in the kitchen, starting in the back-of-house at his family-owned Acme Burger age 13. His dream of restaurateuring was accomplished in 2015 aback he opened Manoli’s with his partner, Katrina Cutrubus. Katsanevas has accumulated an all-embracing melancholia agenda featuring acceptable Greek mezes (shared plates) accent by amazing broiled lamb riblets. Cutrubus’ housemade loukoumades (Greek donuts) and soft-serve ice chrism are treasures, too. 402 E. 900 South, 801-532-3760, manolison9th.com2. The Added Place3. Greek Souvlaki
Best Indian RestaurantBombay HouseFrom accessible to close, day afterwards day, you’ll acquisition a bandage out the aperture for a adored table (there are no reservations, so arise early), and aloof as abounding barter acrimonious up to-go orders. It’s mayhem, but Bombay House’s agents is acclimatized to the organized anarchy appropriate to accomplish their customers’ demand. What is all the babel about? Bombay’s acceptable tandoori oven is a well-oiled, finely-tuned Indian cuisine apparatus that churns out alpha naan, lamb, craven and shrimp like no other. Assorted locations, bombayhouse.com2. Kathmandu3. Himalayan Kitchen
Best New RestaurantOquirrhHow abundant added Utah can you get by allotment your restaurant Oquirrh? The abstraction of association was ascendant for the new Alkali Basin Burghal beanery operated by Andrew and Angelena Fuller. Capacity are locally sourced to accompany calm an eclectic, avant-garde menu, and dishes are presented as beautifully as they are delicious. For a first-time visit, the bonbon craven pot pie able with winter mushrooms and mirepoix will get you hooked. 368 E. 100 South, 801-359-0426, oquirrhslc.com2. Mr. Charlie’s Craven Fingers3. Ginger Street
Best Avant-garde MenuTable XChefs Nick Fahs, David Barboza and Mike Blocher are alumni of Comestible Convention of America in New York City. There, they abstruse teamwork and cohesion, and calm they consistently advance the envelope in creating an ever-changing and convalescent menu. Every appetizer and entrée is a assignment of art, but if you appetence to absolutely be impressed, accord the Chef’s Tasting a go—it’s a chef-selected five-course meal and includes a cooler to boot. 1457 E. 3350 South, 385-528-3712, tablexrestaurant.com2. SLC Eatery3. Zest
Best Italian RestaurantSicilia MiaImmigrating to Utah in 2013, Sicilia Mia architect Francesco Mirenda and his ancestors apprenticed acclimatized themselves as the arch purveyor of Italian book in town. Aback the aboriginal breadth opened in Holladay, four added iterations of Sicilia Mia acquire abutting the fold. Appetence an age-old Sicilian dish? The cacio y pepe is artlessly cheese and pepper with spaghetti, yet spectacular. What makes it added appropriate is the server serenading diners with an Italian folk song as they mix the capacity in a broiled cheese wheel. Assorted locations, siciliamiautah.com2. Celeste Ristorante3. Carmine’s
Best Japanese RestaurantTakashiWhen bodies from Monterey or San Francisco arise to Alkali Basin and acclaim Takashi as the best sushi restaurant they’ve anytime encountered, you apperceive there’s commodity appropriate activity on. Takashi and Tamara Gibo’s restaurant focuses on the minute details—you’ll about acquisition Takashi during cafeteria teaching his sushi chefs aesthetic and adroit tricks, if he’s not advancing dishes himself. For a basin alfresco of the box, the Barracuda forth with attenuate spices activity a powerful, begrimed flavor. 15 W. Bazaar St., 801-519-95952. Kyoto3. Sapa
Best Mexican RestaurantRed IguanaWhy would you locate a added restaurant a block abroad from the first? Lucy Cardenas and her husband, Bill Coker, took a activity aback they opened restaurant No. 2 a hop, skip and a jump abroad from the aboriginal Red Iguana, which was abundantly accurate by The New York Times in 2011. Their cycle of the dice absolutely paid off—Red Iguana swelled to added than 150 advisers to accommodated demand. The recipes draw afflatus from assorted regions of Mexico and the Southwestern U.S. and are able with alpha chilies, cinnamon, garlic, cumin, onions, cilantro, broiled bake-apple and vegetables (their acclaimed birthmark abandoned boasts added than 70 ingredients). Assorted locations, rediguana.com2. Dejected Iguana3. El Chihuahua
Best Average Eastern RestaurantMazzaAt Mazza, they acquire that arete in cuisine can abandoned be accomplished by application the accomplished quality, freshest capacity and acid no corners. That adeptness be why they’ve endemic the Best Middle-Eastern chichi for 18 years alive with admirable dishes such as falafel, shawarma, kebobs, dips and salads. Mazza’s 9th & 9th and 15th & 15th locations additionally basin up no-hormone, no-antibiotics, no-funny-business lamb, beef and chicken. 912 E. 900 South, 801-521-4572; 1515 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9259, mazzacafe.com2. Laziz Kitchen3. O’Falafel Etc.
Best Ogden RestaurantTona SushiHistoric 25th Artery is home to not abandoned the best restaurant in Ogden, but arguably the accompaniment of Utah, as well. Tona’s adept sushi creations are as abundant an art allotment as annihilation else—from the central out, every bandage of their rolls are carefully able to accord your aftertaste buds a adorable jolt. If raw angle isn’t your thing, Tona has abounding options of udon noodles, bento boxes, soups and salads. 210 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-8662, tonarestaurant.com2. Slackwater3. Roosters Brewing
Best Esplanade Burghal RestaurantRiverhorse on MainIn the comestible axis of Esplanade City, Riverhorse is acclimatized as the creme de la creme. It’s accepted for blame the boundaries on creativity, style, acidity and class. Riverhorse has additionally broadcast on Capital Artery with the contempo accession of Esplanade Burghal Provisions—a café, cafeteria and specialty bazaar with abounding of the aforementioned treats and capacity you’ll acquisition in their flagship restaurant. 540 Main, Esplanade City, 435-649-3536, riverhorseparkcity.com2. Handle3. Hearth and Hill
Best Restaurant PatioCliff Dining PubThe accomplished two years, Cliff Dining Pub has won awards for Best New Restaurant and Best Alkali Basin Basin Restaurant. Voters accede that the abreast American agenda is exceptional. They additionally absolutely accede Cliff’s amazing patio is the best in town—the Draper beanery is altogether anchored with a amazing appearance of Alkali Basin Valley’s abstract sunsets. 12234 Draper Gate Drive, Draper, 801-523-2053, cliffdiningpub.com2. Ruth’s Diner3. East Liberty Tap House
Best Restaurant to Affect NewcomersRed IguanaWant your out-of-town accompany or ancestors to admit the Utah dining arena for commodity added than Jell-o and burial potatoes? The address to razzle and amaze visitors is abandoned a five-minute drive from the airport to Arctic Temple, breadth Red Iguana has been dishing up the finest Mexican aliment in boondocks aback the 1980s. While any basin is connected to impress, the signature moles are a knockout. Assorted locations, rediguana.com2. Takashi3. Valter’s
Best Alkali Basin Basin RestaurantPagoUtah built-in and bred Scott Evans is the architect and admiral of Pago Restaurant Group, which includes Pago, Bar George, East Liberty Tap House, Hub and Spoke and Trestle Tavern. If you’ve dined at best or all of those establishments, you’ll acquisition some accepted themes—all accent sourcing local, ever-changing and innovating menus, and high-quality products. Pago, now in its 10th year, sets the archetype for its sister restaurants. 878 S. 900 East, 801-532-0777, pagoslc.com2. Provisions3. Chestnut Onion
Best Thai RestaurantChabaarA Thailand native, Anny Sooksri grew up feasting on Thai artery aliment and enjoyed the ablaze means vendors interpreted their offerings. Sooksri drew that afflatus aback she created a acquaintance of Thai restaurants—Siam Brainstorm Bar, Tea Rose Diner, Fav Alehouse and Chabaar Aloft Thai. Ceremony has their own personality, admitting Chabaar is acclaimed for its broad-based, Thai-fusion agenda that respects the abstract while architectonics aloft avant-garde tastes. 87 W. 7200 South, Midvale, 801-566-5100, asooksri.com2. Sawadee3. Tea Rose Diner
Best Vietnamese RestaurantOh MaiCrispy exterior. Dank and agreeable interior. That’s how a banh mi should be, and that’s what Oh Mai does oh so well. They pride themselves on their exceptional, affordable sandwiches such as The Sinner, a alloy of braised pork belly, atramentous pepper, lettuce, cucumber, cilantro, pickled carrots, soy sprouts and jalapeño. Their pho is a knockout, too. Assorted locations, ohmaisandwich.com2. All Chay3. Little Saigon
Best Utah Canton RestaurantCommunalAt Communal, they don’t aloof bear family-style eating, they animate it. It’s axiomatic in their association tables, their allegation to animate with bounded purveyors, farmers and artisans and a agenda committed to groups, not aloof individuals. Parties at Accepted acquire the advantage of two starters, two proteins, three abandon and a dessert—the way alehouse with accompany and ancestors should be. Shared. 102 N. University Ave., Provo, 801-373-8000, communalrestaurant.com2. Atramentous Sheep3. Bandage Tank Brewery
Best Vegetarian RestaurantVertical DinerThere’s annihilation banal about the arbitrary and blithe Vertical Booth that puts the fun in vegetarianism and veganism. Their vegan “wings” and “chicken sandwiches” are admired items on an aberrant agenda that focuses abandoned on amoebic products. For a morning treat, the gluten-free assistant pancakes are a delight, and the cafeteria tacos are abundant as well—they’re accumulated with jackfruit, alpha vegetables, kimchi, guacamole, garlic aioli and a cilantro-lime vinaigrette. 234 W. 900 South, 801-484-8378, verticaldiner.com2. Bite Kitchen & Bar3. Bolt Cutter
Best Wine ListBTG Wine BarAfter years aloft from the Alkali Palace, BTG Wine Bar is clearing into their new breadth in the Hawkeye Architectonics on 400 South. Assemblage can still sample all 75 of their wines (in 2 ounce tasters or … by the glass) and adjustment in bites from their affable acquaintance Caffé Molise. That abundant is the same. But BTG’s new address activity a added spacious, avant-garde and somehow classier acquaintance than anytime before. 404 S. West Temple, 801-359-2814, btgwinebar.com2. La Caille3. Accepted Angle and Oyster
Best Cooler PubSquatters PubJust like the Best of Utah, Squatters is axis the accomplished age of 30 this year. Their abstruse to success? Not comatose on their acclaim and consistently accolade allowance for accession (their Hop Ascent abutting bifold IPA is a attestation to this), accretion their absorbing beer bandage and bond the brews with some of the best pub chow around. Think: their acclaimed begrimed tilapia salad, abode specialty “Black & Blue” burger and blubbery jambalaya. Assorted locations, squatters.com2. Red Bedrock Brewing Co.3. Wasatch Brewery
Best AppetizersEvaEva bills itself as a “small restaurant with big flavors,” and boy do they deliver. Striking the complete antithesis amid adequate and burghal chic, the beanery is accepted for its babyish plates like the phyllo-wrapped greek mac and cheese, harissa carrots with atramentous sesame dukkah, (non suffering) succotash and some of the best brittle calamari in the land. The abstruse for the closing is in the housemade pepperoncini aioli, I’m told. 317 S. Main, 801-359-8447, evaslc.com2. Cliff Dining Pub3. Dejected Iguana
Best BBQR&R BBQFrom their alpha at the Vivint Smart Home Arena to their Provo location, R&R has taken a begrimed anchor on the BBQ scene, abrogation locals with sauce-stained ear-to-ear grins. Whether it’s their pulled pork, adorable brisket or ambrosial andouille sausage, you absolutely can’t go amiss here. Additionally of note, their sides—ranging from BBQ broiled beans to potato bloom and calm puppies—are able abundant to booty centermost stage. Assorted locations, randrbbq.com2. Benji’s BBQ Shack3. Pat’s BBQ
Best BreweryFisher Brewing Co.Building on the bequest of the OG A. Fisher Brewing Co., and afterward a 50 year hiatus, Fisher Brewing Co. has emerged as a barmy archetype rising. Their Granary District brewhouse is the analogue of cool, with its accession of adeptness ales and lagers, a revolving aperture of bounded aliment trucks and candied branded merch. On the move? Fisher offers their best beers to-go in bear and crowler form. 320 W. 800 South, 801-487-2337, fisherbeer.com2. Kiitos Brewing3. Uinta Brewing Co.
Best BurgersLucky 13No abruptness here. The ballpark-area beanery has been raking Best of Utah awards anytime aback its birth a decade ago. Afflicted with agenda choices? Booty a footfall aback and eenie meenie miney mo it. Advantageous 13’s Celestial burger with its broiled onions and house-smoked bacon is the actuality of legend; you can never go amiss with the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink Pigpen; and their garlic-infused Breath Enhancer will ample you up and breadth off vampires at the aforementioned time—win win! Bandy in a bassinet of Cajun fries, and you’ll absolutely be in hog heaven. 135 W. 1300 South, 801-487-4418, lucky13slc.com2. Able Burger3. Acme Burger
Best BurritoBlue IguanaA awful contested chichi year afterwards year, our readers acquire announced and alleged burghal beanery Dejected Iguana the best burrito purveyors in all the state. Aloof what makes these burros best? They’re abounding to the rafters with housemade proteins like carnitas, tinga and charbroiled carne asada. Those absent to access their abutting Takeru Kobayashi can accord Dejected Iguana’s 5-pound burrito claiming a go. Forth with absolute aloof rights, if you administer to accomplishment this monster, ambrosia is on the house. 165 S. West Temple, 801-533-8900, blueiguanarestaurant.net2. Abandoned Brilliant Taquería3. Sweeto Burrito
Best Craven ItemMr. Charlie’s Craven FingersWith a agenda boasting Alabama-style absurd craven stemming from antibiotic- and cage-free chickens, it’s accessible to see why this Murray beanery took the top atom this year. A admired of rapper Column Malone, Mr. Charlie’s 5-finger basin (five craven fingers accompanied by slaw, acknowledgment and two sauces) is the apotheosis of downhome abundance food. Affair packs of 25-100 craven fingers are additionally accessible for those attractive to go cluckin’crazy. 554 W. 4500 South, Murray, 801-803-9486, mrcharlieschickenfingers.com2. Back-scratch Absurd Chicken3. Appealing Bird
Best CookiesRuby SnapAny which way you bung it—the chocolate-cinnamon Margo, blueberry-lemon Zoe or the melancholia broiled butternut squash—you can’t go amiss at Ruby Snap. Confined up the acceptable actuality for added than a decade, buyer Tami Steggell has able the art of adorable cookie making. Attractive for an after-hours fix? Ruby’s cookie chef is accessible in the freezer breadth of all Harmons, Lee’s and Smith’s. 770 S. 300 West, 801-834-6111, rubysnap.com2. Crumbl3. Chip
Best Comestible SchoolPark Burghal Comestible InstituteWhether it’s association affable classes, a mixology accepting or a complete career move you’re after, you’re connected to acquisition a solid foundation at Esplanade Burghal Comestible Institute. Best allotment is, accepting can acquire to go at their own pace, be it a few hours a ceremony or the 9-hours-a-day accelerated program. Forth with the educational programs, the convention offers chef’s demonstrations and tasting dinners, hands-on workshops and team-building competitions. 201 Heber Ave., Esplanade City; 1484 S. State, SLC, 801-413-2800, parkcityculinaryinstitute.com2. Alkali Basin Convention of Comestible Education3. SLCC Comestible School
Best DistilleryHigh WestAfter animation parallels amid distilling and the cooler process, biochemist David Perkins got a boozy lightbulb over his head—and backed by his wife, Jane—packed up, confused to Esplanade Burghal and started Aerial West. From that aboriginal apprehensive 250-gallon still, a Utah success adventure was born, and the distillery is now amenable for signature articles like Rendezvous Rye and Aerial West 7000′ vodka. Pay their flagship Esplanade Avenue alehouse a arrangement (or their SLC All-embracing Airport breadth for that matter) and acquaintance Western accommodation for yourself. Assorted locations, highwest.com2. Ogden’s Own Distillery3. Dented Brick Distillery
Best DoughnutsBanbury CrossCake, glazed, arctic and sprinkled—any which way you bung ’em, Banbury Cross has able them and offered them to the sweet-toothed masses aback 1986. Whether you’re visiting the abundance or avaricious a to-go baker’s dozen from the drive-thru window, you’re connected to be a hit at your abutting arrangement meeting, ancestors acquisition or, you know, aloof by yourself. No judgement here. Their maple confined are the actuality of legend. 705 S. 700 East, 801-537-14332. The Big O Doughnuts3. Daylight Donuts
Best Ethnic/Specialty MarketCaputo’s Bazaar & DeliIt would be accessible for Matt Caputo to abstract on the acclaim of articles offered at the ancestors namesake’s market—Old Angel cheeses, accomplished chocolate, afresh broiled breads, etc. Instead, he’s architectonics aloft the bequest of ancestor Tony, and added Caputo’s banner by transforming it into a one-stop bazaar of aliment (and foodie culture) goodness. Add some accessible composure to your activity by accessory one of their abounding classes, like Adeptness Amber 101, Bout of Italy or Accession to Salumi. [Insert chefs kiss here] Assorted locations, caputos.com2. Ocean Mart3. Atramentous Cherry
Best Bounded SpiritFive Wives VodkaFrom acknowledging a bevvy of association contest (their anniversary Pride float is a adaptable affair like no other) to breaking arena on a new 30,000-square-foot facility, it’s no abruptness Bristles Wives reigns absolute in this category. So, aloof what makes their vodka so special? It’s handcrafted with a alloy of Wasatch Abundance bounce baptize aggregate bristles gallons at a time from a bounce in Ogden canyon. Cheers to fun times with the Bristles Wives crew—and the memorable admission rager their new building’s aperture is connected to usher. fivewivesvodka.com2. Dented Brick Vodka3. Aerial West Campfire
Best Aliment TruckCupbopKudos to the aliment barter that’s accelerating to an absorbing seven brick-and-mortar locations. Still advantageous admiration to their adaptable roots, Cupbop’s Korean BBQ in a cup advantage can be activate on auto at approved aliment barter contest aloft the city, like the Gallivan Center’s Aliment Barter Thursdays. Accord their Hot Bop basin a go and bung in a brace of mandoo (Korean-style potstickers for acceptable measure). You can acknowledge me later. Assorted locations, facebook.com/cupbop2. Cossack Love3. Cluck Truck
Best French FriesBruges Waffles & FritesHand-peeled and cut circadian from alpha Idaho potatoes, Bruges’ frites are to die for. Try them with any of the housemade dipping sauces or go heartier with a accession of Old Angel faves, like the back-scratch ketchup-topped Belgian dog or beer-braised Flemish stew. Aloof accomplish connected to leave allowance for dessert, as their waffles are no joke. Assorted locations, brugeswaffles.com2. Advantageous 133. Acme Burger
Best GyroGreek SouvlakiGiven Burghal Weekly’s Greek ownership, this chichi is one that gets centralized absorption year afterwards year. Our readers acquire spoken, and it turns out annihilation beats the original. Acclimatized in 1972, fable says Greek Souvlaki was the aboriginal restaurant to accompany gyros to the Beehive State. With bristles locales below their zóni—and assorted added eateries that followed suit—it’s ablaze they were assimilate something. Try their Philly gyro. Your tastebuds will acknowledge you. Assorted locations, greeksouvlaki.com2. Acme Burger3. Yanni’s Greek Express
Best Adamantine CiderMountain WestThe cheese stands abandoned in this category. One sip of Abundance West’s Ruby or Desolation Prickly Pear adamantine ciders, and it’s accessible to see why they’re the acknowledged champs. Fabricated application capacity sourced from the Abundance West region, the consistent sips are crisp, auspicious and artlessly gluten-free. Analysis out their tasting allowance and accord one of their cider cocktails—like the Waterpocket Blanco Rum-infused No. 1—a go. 425 N. 400 West, 801-935-4147, mountainwestcider.com
Best Bounded BeerKiitos Coffee Chrism AleIt’s absorbing to see the advance of Utah’s adeptness beer arena and Beehive-bred brewers’ attendance during the Utah Beer Festival’s 10 years (and running), so in accurate Oprah spirit, if you are complex in the bounded brewing scene, you get an award! You get an award! You all get an award! That actuality said, our readers acquire announced and voted Kiitos best of the best. So accession a pint (preferably abounding with Belgian Wit, Bake-apple Milkshake Ale or any of Kiitos’ accomplished brews) and say, cheers! 608 W. 700 South, 801-215-9165, kiitosbrewing.com2. Red Rock’s Elephino3. Wasatch Apricot Hefeweizen
Best New Aliment TrendCurry PizzaA few years ago, it was doughnuts, afresh bacon on absolutely aggregate followed by the ramen explosion. Now, our ever-intrepid readers actuate it’s the administration of back-scratch pizza. Alarm it the ultimate abundance fusion—a arrangement of curries, acutely bottomless toppings all on acrid dough. The a-ha moment came aback a babyish Southern Utah restaurant absitively to put their 15 curries to acceptable use and adapted a little. The acquaintance resulted in Back-scratch Pizza’s anesthetized paneer, augment dupe back-scratch and craven tikka-topped Bhinda special. 2927 S. 5600 West, West Basin City, 801-890-0415; 125 N. Accompaniment Alleyway 24, Bicknell, 435-425-2500, currypizzautah.com2. Cookie home delivery3. Poke
Best PizzaThe Pie PizzeriaAnother awful contested aliment category. At the end of the day, what’s not to adulation about pizza? Whether its thin-crust, deep-dish, by the allotment or a accomplished pie, it’s adamantine to alloy it up. Aural that nuance, assertive eateries aloof get it appropriate and administer to blast an actual ambit with bounded diners. Admission The Pie, the OG beanery that’s been confined up the appetizing triangular actuality aback 1980. Abode specialties that connected apperceive how to amuse accommodate the bold “Holy shitake,” the “Xtreme veggie” and the appropriately alleged “Mountain of meat.” Assorted locations, thepie.com2. Advantageous Slice3. Nomad Eatery
Best RamenJinyaLadies and gentleman, we acquire accomplished ramen bubble. Utah diners are advantageous abundant to acquire witnessed the Japanese brainstorm explosion, and the bounded comestible arena is all the bigger for it. Priding itself on confined “unfussy Japanese,” this Los Angeles displace has apprenticed taken a authority and lived up to its adage with a agenda abounding with abundance items like tonkotsu red, ambrosial umami miso and the accessible “slurp-up cilantro.” 675 E. 2100 South, 801-883-9466; 5905 S. State, Murray, 385-474-6818, jinya-ramenbar.com2. Tosh’s Ramen3. Yoko Ramen
Best SaladsAubergine & Co.Yawn, right? Not here. Aback its founding in 2014, Aubergine & Co. has activate a way to reinvent the blooming actuality and present it in avant-garde (and filling) ways. Kale, Romaine, quinoa, dupe cheese, blueberries and blooming angel coexist in the “Very Berry,” while red cabbage, almond agrarian rice, adopting and broiled craven compose the “Warm Rainbow”and annual the establishment’s mantra, “eat better, feel different.” Assorted locations, aubergineandcompany.com2. Mollie & Ollies3. Café Rio
Best SandwichesMoochie’sNo abruptness here. Aloft its four locations, Moochies is accepted for confined the best meatball sandwich in the vicinity, which comes topped with ooey adhesive provolone; the ribeye monster accepted as the abode Philly cheesesteak; and a nostalgically adorable hot pastrami and Swiss. Their algid sandwiches, like the Italian cafeteria and the veggie feta and tomato, ain’t bisected bad either. Assorted locations, moochiesmeatballs.com2. Feldman’s Deli3. Grove Market
Best SeafoodCurrent Angle & OysterContemporary and innovative, it’s no abruptness Accepted took the ambiguous top atom afresh this year. Be it their East Coast oysters or West Coast Kumamotos, aperitive poached adolescent cook or animated ale-battered angle and chips, cafeteria actuality is a accurate experience. Afterwards in the day, a adorable caramelized amoebic salmon, pan-roasted scallops and wild-caught Pacific halibut booty centermost date during banquet below controlling chef Alan Brines’ alert eye. For those attractive for an end-of-week treat, their prix fixe Sunday suppers are connected to satisfy. 279 E. 300 South, 801-326-3474, currentfishandoyster.com2. Anchorage Seafood & Steak Co.3. Bazaar Artery Grill
Best VeganZest Kitchen & BarIf your brainy angel of a appropriate vegetarian basin is bagged salad, you allegation to get with the times. Admission Bite with its atramentous bean and chia berry sliders, buckwheat pancakes with bake-apple compote and appetizing hummus of the day. Their circadian brunch is additionally of note, burdened with a absolutely amoebic 100% plant-based items. Ablution your meal bottomward with a cold-pressed mimosa or, yes, a vegan blood-soaked mary. 275 S. 200 West, 801-433-0589, zestslc.com2. Bolt Cutter3. Bud’s
Best SoupsSoup KitchenA bounded basic aback 1974, Soup Kitchen has set the balmy and affable soup accepted aloft the land. Adjustment yourself an 8-ounce allocation (or a 128-ounce if you plan on throwing a soup rager), and leave some allowance for a bisected sandwich or bloom (the craven breast avocado is a standout). As the acclimate turns, Soup Kitchen’s allegiant staples, like cheese broccoli, chrism of amazon and breach pea and ham aloof scream abundance food. Best allotment is, all soups are bactericide chargeless and fabricated alpha daily. Assorted locations, slcsoup.com2. Porcupine Pub & Grille3. Feldman’s Deli
Best SushiTakashiAnother admired champ. What’s not to adulation about the burghal eatery? The abstraction of namesake Takashi and his wife, Tamara Gibo, the always-crowded amplitude has been confined up the acceptable actuality for 15 years. If you’re a regular, this acumen comes as no surprise. If you’re a newbie afflicted by the arrangement of adorable options, aloof bead your feel anywhere on the agenda and be connected a memorable dining acquaintance is guaranteed. Allowance for dessert? Their acclaim panna cotta is Burghal Annual den mother Paula Saltas’ favorite. 18 W. Bazaar St., 801-519-95952. Sapa3. Tsunami
Best TacosTaqueria 27Owned by bedmate and wife team, Todd and Kristin Gardiner, T27 has set the taco accepted aloft its bristles locations. Whether you’re there for brunch (give the turkey chorizo and eggs tacos a go) or late-night dinner, you’d be hard-pressed to go amiss here. T27 invites you to anticipate alfresco the billet taco shell, and adventure into agitative comestible territory. One burdened with pork belly, broiled pear and avoid bonbon taco iterations. Assorted locations, taqueria27.com2. Taco Taco3. Abandoned Brilliant Taquería
Best Use of BaconLucky 13There are a few Best of Utah categories that assume to acquire activate an admired champion—and this is one of them. What’s not to adulation about bacon? Specifically, what’s not to adulation about abacus bacon to any of Advantageous 13’s aperitive dishes? Be it the house-smoked BLT, the dejected cheese-topped bacon corrupt burger or the accurate pièce de résistance, the behemoth Pigpen, this appropriate actuality is the ultimate foodie marriage. 135 W. 1300 South, 801-487-4418, lucky13slc.com2. Barn on Beck3. White Horse
Best WingsTrolley Accession Co.Twice broiled and all-around delicious, wings actuality are animated to art. Alpha with your best of wing, acquire from nine archetypal flavors (the jamaican honey garlic is to die for) or actualize your own and go to boondocks (sriracha Carolina Parm? Yes, please). Acceptable wings not your thing? Trolley Accession Co.’s vegan iterations are top cleft and duplicate from their beastly protein counterparts. 2148 S. 900 East, Ste. 5; 736 Dejected Vista Lane, Ste. 200, Midvale, 801-312-9532, trolleywingco.com2. Accession Nutz3. Accession Coop
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Best Bifold Dosage of Ball Sausage-MakingWiseguys Accessible MicComedy accessible mic nights are one of the absolutely alluring adventures in the arts—a adventitious to watch bodies either try out a aesthetic endeavor for the aboriginal time, or try new absolute with no abstraction what will work. It acclimated to be that the burghal Wiseguys breadth at The Gateway could abandoned set abreast Wednesday nights for such experimentation, but with the new amplification of The Lounge—adjacent to the absolute location—there’s akin added befalling to see artists at assignment with their Tuesday showcases. Cull up a chair, adore some aliment and a beverage, and get a adventitious to see what adeptness be the abutting big amateur get their start. (SR) 194 S. 400 West, wiseguyscomedy.com
Best Confined to Absolutely Listen to Jazz, or Abstain it (Quietly) for BoozeLake EffectUpon afoot bottomward the accomplish to Basin Effect’s basement bar, Rabbit Hole, for the aboriginal time, I alleged out to my bartender acquaintance DuJuan Mitchell, who apprenticed shushed me. This was how I activate out that aboriginal Wednesday evenings at the Rabbit Aperture are aloof for quiet “jazz room” nights, featuring some of the best bounded and touring applesauce acts around. It’s affectionate below the low ceiling, but the breadth of the allowance makes it accessible to blooper abroad from the arrangement of admirers to adjustment a drink—though I aloof let DuJuan accomplish me whatever he acquainted like. Turns out, agilely connected by the applesauce artists with a candied cocktail in duke is an accessible affair to do. (EM) 125 W. 200 South, 801-285-6494, lakeeffectslc.com
Best New LGBTQ NightBottoms UpWith the mantra “come as you are, anybody is welcome,” Bottoms Up has breathed new activity into a allegiant burghal SLC venue. Tarot agenda readings, acrylic nights … who knows what across-the-board fun you adeptness blunder into. Saturdays, however, are a night for some of the best archetypal and beginning annoyance around. Led by bounded misfit Marrlo Suzanne, contempo affair nights accommodate Zombie Prom, Night of the Alive Red and the accessible Asstrology: Libra. (EL) 579 W. 200 South, 435-749-1517, bottomsupslc.com
Best Address to Get Your Cocktail OnThe RestEver had an aviator? Or a able old-fashioned? Or do you aloof crave a accomplished julep or sazerac? Accomplish connected you get a bolt at The Rest. It’s a speakeasy, but it’s now apparently Alkali Lake’s best accepted speakeasy these days. Don’t let the Bodega assurance out advanced fool you. It’s all allotment of buyer Sara Lund’s accepted Capital Artery dining spot. Bodega is the lounge breadth up top breadth some delay for their table to accessible up downstairs. Arrangement their website for bolt details. (RH) 331 S. Main, 801-532-4452, bodega331.com
Best Annoyance Appearance ThemeThose Bitches’ Saturday Morning CartoonsJust aback I anticipation annoyance shows could not get any better, Those Bitches absorbed SLCers out to the bar in their pajamas for a Saturday morning animation affair on a backward summer evening, breadth I proceeded to beatnik out added than Screech at the afterimage of Absence Burghal Weekly, Sister Molly Mormon, dressed as Ms. Frizzle. Behindhand of theme, the adroitness and aptitude of Those Bitches affiliation knows no bounds. So bolt up kids and analysis out their shows the aftermost Wednesday of every month. (AP) Club Try Angles, 251 W. 900 South, 801-364-3203, facebook.com/those-bitches
Best Drunken DivasThe All-powerful Sister-MistersServing face, anatomy and talent, The All-powerful Sister-Misters is a bi-weekly annoyance appearance showcasing aptitude from Adored Basin and beyond. Afterwards six years of Provo Pride, the Sister-Misters now sponsor a anniversary Pride Ceremony with this year’s winners actuality Anna L’Beads, Kolumbia Monroe and Lizzie McQueen. Demography authority of Friday nights at Burghal Banned Tavern, this is a can’t-miss appearance that brings a little blush to Utah County. (EGW) 440 W. Centermost St., Provo, 801-374-2337
Best Surround SoundThe Accompaniment RoomThere’s no acumen to acquire that a abate live-music breadth skimps on the high-quality sonic acquaintance for visitors. The Accompaniment Allowance adeptness abandoned authority as abounding as 300 assemblage for any acclimatized show—and a consistently analgesic agenda it is—but every one of those 300 bodies has every acumen to acquire they’ve got the best bench in the abode for seeing and alert to the performers. That’s why concert-goers at The Accompaniment Allowance so predictably acclaim the way they feel they’ve gotten their money’s worth, because there’s audition the music, and afresh there’s absolutely audition the music. (SR) 638 S. State, thestateroompresents.com
Best Breadth to Bethink Babyish Cities Get the Best ShowsUrban LoungeThe best I lived in SLC, the added conversations I’ve had with association in the music arena breadth we both accurate our acknowledgment adjoin alive in a burghal breadth you can bolt a complete acclimatized touring act at a breadth as affectionate as the Burghal Lounge. The midsize burghal breadth is calmly abutting to bars, and the complete admeasurement for our association of concert-goers. Accompany who’ve lived in bigger cities (and confused aback here) acquire lamented times seeing admired acts at large, sound-swallowing venues, abstract out on the adjacency that comes from continuing appropriate in advanced of the artisan like you can at Urban. SLC is absolutely adored with one thing: its accessibility to abundant acts, at no abundant ambit from the stage. (EM) 241 S. 500 East, 801-746-0557, theurbanloungeslc.com
Best Breadth to Get Absent InThe DepotNo bulk how abounding times I’ve visited the place, I get lost—stairs arch to all sorts of accidental places, balconies all around. The multi-tiered-ness of it reminds me of bigger venues I went to while alive in Minneapolis, reaffirming my accepting that The Depot is our accurate Big Burghal Music Venue. The ascend up the stairs to the breadth is exciting, and activity aback bottomward afterwards a arranged appearance is like rush-hour traffic. It’s affectionate of nice, in a way, to never feel acclimatized with its breadth; it consistently feels like the aboriginal time. (EM) 13 N. 400 West, 801-456-2800, thedepotslc.com
Best Address to Twist and ShoutTwistIt isn’t alleged Twist for no reason. This two-story burghal bar amid in a 19th-century boiler allowance was acclimatized a makeover in 2015 to changeabout into a accident alehouse by day and bent bar by night. Now, you can be connected to acquisition affluence of accompany on a weekend night acclimation drinks at one of their abounding confined and accepting their canal on to one of the DJs. If you stop by for lunch, alpha with an adjustment of queso dip and chase it up with one of their burgers or sandwiches to accord you that 2 p.m. aliment hangover. (RH) 32 Exchange Place, 801-322-3200, twistslc.com
Best Breadth to Feel Like You’re in an ’80s MovieLiquid Joe’sThe ’80s disqualified for abounding reasons, and one can acclaim Liquid Joe’s with befitting it complete abundant alive. The distinctive, pool-colored architectonics appearance angled architectonics and aglow neon, with an autogenous paneled in design basin animate panels. On their stage, you can anxiously see bounded bristles acts, but additionally any added cast that deals akin accidentally in glam or shock, such as the ’80s bandage goth act The Chameleons. With basin tables and darts about the angle of the angled bar, Liquid Joe’s is for the dive-minded aloof as abundant as it’s for the cornball time-traveler who longs for acquaintance with an older, grittier, added neon-lit SLC—bygone, but not really. (EM) 1249 E. 3300 South, 801-467-5637, liquidjoes.net
Best Address to Get to Apperceive Your Bartender/BouncerJohnny’s On SecondAh, Johnny’s. This aggregate is a accepted aboriginal stop with friends, akin a meet-up atom for dates and a solid alpha to any bar crawl. Boasting a dive-bar atmosphere—and dive-bar booze prices, like their signature $4 attack and a beer—Johnny’s is absolutely one of SLC’s altered watering holes. Whether you’re arena basin with pals, arrant at the bar because your date bailed or blind out on the patio, you’re acceptable to feel accustomed by Johnny’s employees. On a acceptable night, you adeptness get to apprehend bartender Vic sing a carol while he pours you a annealed one. (KR) 165 E. 200 South, 801-746-3334, johnnysonsecond.com
Best Bar to Bolt an Beginning Lounge SetTwilite LoungeAlthough best signs characterization it “Smoker’s Paradise,” Twilite is more-so a music-lover’s, actuality the best address to allow in unpretentious, rough-around-the-edges, welcoming, avant-garde and absolutely appropriate bounded music. The Applesauce Jags are the epicenter of Wednesday nights, bushing the dark, red-lit cave of the aback bar with the warm, aesthetic thrush of wire besom on allurement by bagman Nora Bulk and the abnormality guitar plucks that about clue the distinctive, absorption articulation of David Payne, who helps accompany in added locals for lounge sets. On Sunday Doom Lounge nights, added electronically absorbed artists ample the space, best conspicuously Josh Stippich, whose haunting, barbarous trumpet assignment is one of my admired sounds—one I’m baby to apprehend any Sunday I choose. (EM) 347 E. 200 South, 801-532-9400, twilitelounge.com
Best Address to Booze and Bolt the GameDick ‘N Dixie’sWhether it’s the Utah Jazz, Complete Alkali Lake, the Utes or whatever aggregation you appear to be auspicious for, Dick ‘N Dixie’s adequate angle bar can be aloof the address to saddle up. For its size, the bar has affluence of TVs acquainted to about any sports channel. And aback a bounded aggregation is playing, you can calculation on adolescent admirers assuming up, too. Oh, and did we acknowledgment the booze prices? Affairs are you can breach for the accomplished game, get a acceptable fizz and still leave with a analysis below than $50. If you get the munchies, airing up to the adjoining window to adjustment some ramen and gyoza from Yoko Ramen. (RH) 479 E. 300 South, 801-994-6919
Best Bar to Consistently Apprehend Acceptable MusicAlibi Bar & PlaceAlibi seems to be commodity of a home abject for all of the best almanac spinners in SLC. I’ve never been into the bar aback commodity communicable and adopted to me wasn’t spinning in the corner. Besides the well-crafted ambiance of the abundant amplitude draped in blind plants, the little bar works aloof as able-bodied for weeknight hangs as it does for its awfully awkward and adult weekend brawl nights. The DJ sets are a key allotment of that. Monday nights are home to the loose-edged aggregate of vinyl-loving DJs Caviar Club, who additionally about participate in the all-embracing attitude that is Motown on Mondays. DJs Sneeky Long, Chaseone2, Flash & Flare, Concise Kilgore and Bo York are aloof a few amid those who circuit the best of the best best funk, soul, psych, rap … I anticipate you get it. They do it all, and they never, anytime disappoint. (EM) 369 S. Main, 385-259-0616
Best Mustachioed PubHandleBarThe assurance out advanced has a burlesque acid a bike hat and antic an colossal mustache. His eyes are absolutely bike wheels. “Now confined agog cyclists and anyone who appreciates a thick, agee mustache,” their website says. They’re not wrong. The bar at the arctic end of 300 West is a abundant atom to bike to and adore a meal and cooler on their patio. It still has that new enactment feel, so stop by to breach in your new mustache. (RH) 751 N. 300 West, 801-953-0588, handlebarslc.com
Best Address to Get Into a Bar FightQuarters Arcade BarIf you’re agog to get some assailment out, but you don’t appetence to absolutely breach a canteen over someone’s head, afresh 801 Bar Fights at Quarters Arcade Bar is for you. On the third Thursday of every month, artery fighters, bitter kombatants and accident brothers are acceptable to analysis their adeptness in a angry bold of the house’s choice. The association who accumulate at Quarters for bold tournaments are a decidedly affable bunch, and digitized activity is a abundant beholder activity for those not afterwards an atramentous of cutting ha-do-kens at strangers. (AS) 5 E. 400 South, quartersslc.com
Best Icy WelcomeBeerhive PubGenerally, an icy acceptable isn’t the adopted way to acceptable any aggregation into your establishment, but the Beerhive’s owner, Del Vance doesn’t absolutely see it that way. Aback you admission the Beerhive Pub, one of the aboriginal things to grab your absorption (apart from the archetypal decor) is the massive L-shaped bar that inhabits best of the pub’s complete estate. Embedded in the bar is a 4-inch advanced ice area that spans the complete breadth of the bar. It’s a congenital in booze alarming that’s altered in this allotment of the West and akin has the adeptness to get bodies to put bottomward their phones for a few minutes. (MR) 128 S. Main, 801-364-4268
Best Complete Dive Bar to See Animate SetsABG’s in ProvoABG’s—short for the alluringly Victorian A. Beauford Gifford’s Cooler Emporium—is as divey as dive confined get, and for me at least, calls to apperception what dive confined that angled as venues allegation acquire been like aback in the ’80s and ’90s. The adornment harkens to that time, and there’s akin a aroma in the air that aloof beckons you to breach for several drinks—especially if there’s a bandage playing. A alpine date is at the complete back, in advanced of a coffer of mirrors that accomplish the bar feel akin added cave-like. Here, AGB’s hosts shows with locals and touring acts akin about already a week. And aback it’s a bar, whether you apperceive or like the bandage or not, there’s consistently cooler to be had while you accomplish up your mind. (EM) 190 W. Centermost St., Provo, 801-373-1200, abgsbar.com
Best Fact-Checker Approved Watering HoleThe Ice HaüsThe activity of a newsroom fact-checker can be trying. Abounding with accurate cross-referencing and absorption to detail, it’s no abruptness these unsung newsroom heroes allegation to let their bristles bottomward already the alarm strikes 5. Ask Burghal Weekly’s own Lance Gudmundsen what his admired post-deadline alehouse is—along with his booze of best there—and his face lights up. “I expedition over to the Ice Haüs and adjustment a blood-soaked mary from barkeep Andrew Burt. Served with pickled asparagus spears (and bacon, if you address it), olives and a auto block and, of course, 1 ½ ounces of Tito’s vodka—the headache-banishing cooler isn’t too banal or too ambrosial … it’s aloof right.” Allegation some added punch? “If you allegation added zest, Andrew’s consistently bold annotation fills the bill. Did I acknowledgment the bar’s accessible at 10 a.m. on weekends?” Gudmundsen concludes. (EL) 7 E. 4800 South, Murray, 801-266-2127, icehausbar.com
Best All-embracing ProgrammingSoundwellTry to peg bottomward the burghal SLC breadth and you adeptness be in a pickle. Demography over the amplitude aforetime alive by Elevate, Soundwell keeps advancement the ante with its assorted programming. Alive up to its “Best of” designation, animate music contest alignment from the contempo Slap Basin Burghal Hiphop Advertise to British electronica duo Bondax and a two-night address from Matisyahu, acquire all alleged the address home. (EL) 149 W. 200 South, 801-290-1001, soundwellslc.com
Best Bar PatioGracie’sGracie’s has continued been heralded as one of Utah’s best bars, abundant of it due to their affectionate and affable brace of patios. The admiral patio is clandestine with amazing angle of the Wasatch Mountains, while the bench keeps it alpha with annual applesauce sessions, bluegrass jams and bounded bands. It’s the complete atom to sip on a spirit, barbecue on a meal (we acclaim the buttermilk aged craven strips) and adore the alpha air. 326. S. West Temple, 801-819-7565, graciesslc.com2. Blooming Pig3. Hog Wallow Pub
Best Bar MenuWhite HorseJust 10 or 15 years ago, burghal Alkali Lake’s aliment and bar arena was aged and sparse. Today, Capital Street’s nightlife renaissance has taken appearance with the admonition of places like White Horse. The ambiance rivals that of a chichi SoHo joint, while White Horse’s kitchen offerings surpasses it. The agenda is aggressive and aesthetic such as the egg and chips, a alloy of abode potato chips, 63-degree egg, malt alkali crumb and truffle. 325 S. Main, 801-363-0137, whitehorseslc.com2. Ice Haüs3. Gracie’s
Best Beer SelectionThe BayouOver the aftermost decade, Utah’s adeptness beer arena has apparent a hockey stick fasten in popularity. There’s abandoned one address breadth you can sample aloof about every cast offered by Utah’s 30-plus breweries and endless others: The Bayou. Aback 2002, owners Mark and Kileen Alston acquire developed their bashful accession of brews into a assets of over 500 beers. Can’t adjudge which one is for you? The Bayou has an app that about selects brews so you don’t acquire to. 645 S. State, 801-961-8400, utahbayou.com2. Beerhive3. Beer Bar
Best Adeptness CocktailsWater WitchHip, minimalist, awakening and innovative. All apt words to call the adjacency bar Baptize Witch, operated by barmen Matthew Pfohl, Scott Gardner and Sean Neves. The trio’s shelves are abounding with bounded and alien spirits, and the adeptness cocktail agenda accouterment consistently to abutment their artistic spirits. The watering aperture additionally appearance a beauteous archetype of the 1883 oil-on-canvas “Cliffs of Promontory” by Alfred Lambourne aloft their seats. It’s the complete ambience for sipping accomplished adeptness cocktails. 163 W. 900 South, 801-462-0967, waterwitchbar.com2. Basin Effect3. Bar X
Best Brawl ClubSkyPierpont Avenue’s Sky bistro is a all-embracing three-floor, 15,000 aboveboard bottom amplitude clashing any added club in Utah. The advanced complete arrangement allows clubbers to feel the music in their bones. The achievement lighting, retractable roof, 300-inch video screen, 20 VIP suites and 14 barn doors abandoned add to the experience. Sky is the arch breadth for bells parties, accumulated get-togethers, a accompany night out or for anyone who wants to let afar and live. 149 W. Pierpont Ave., 801-702-9014, skyslc.com2. Breadth 513. The Sun Trapp
Best KaraokePiper DownAs Utah’s arch Irish pub, it’s abandoned applicable that there’s a ceaseless admission to St. Patrick’s Day at Piper Bottomward an Olde Angel Pub. But you’d be behindhand in cerebration the March ceremony is the abandoned time there’s fun. Acrylic nights, bingo, trivia and approved karaoke, to name aloof a few events, ensure that Piper Bottomward is one of the bigger parties in town. 1492 S. State, 801-468-1492, piperdownpub.com2. The Highlander3. A Bar Alleged Sue
Best Dive BarJohnny’s on SecondJohnny Dale, the freeholder of Johnny’s on Second, emphasizes circadian fun and entertainment. He offers assemblage a countless of activities—rounds of pool, Thursday Texas Authority ’em games, and sports watch parties that accumulate them advancing back. Johnny’s on Added is additionally home to the $4 attack and a beer. Who abroad can exhausted that bulk in burghal Alkali Lake? 165 E. 200 South, 801-746-3334, johnnysonsecond.com2. Twilite Lounge3. Duffy’s Tavern
Best Gentlemen’s ClubTrailsWelcome to the abundant accompaniment of Utah breadth assembly acquire that aback males mix booze with the afterimage of scantly clad women, they’ll adapt into avaricious beasts bubbles at the mouth. Thus, abounding dishabille is banned here. However, if you like abundant aliment with akin bigger company, Trails is the address for you. 921 S. 300 West, 801-363-2871, trailsmensclub.com2. Southern Xposure3. American Bush
Best Backward Night GrubPie HoleThe complete antitoxin to a abdomen abounding of booze is a abdomen abounding of pizza. That’s why Pie Aperture charcoal accessible able-bodied accomplished the time aftermost drinks are caked at adjacent bars—2 a.m. from Sunday to Thursday and 3 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Ceremony afterwards week, a bandage of revelers forms out the aperture to abstaining up on slices (or abounding pies) of pizza. 344 S. State, 801-359-4653, pieholeutah.com2. Benji’s BBQ Shack3. Hector’s
Best LGBTQ BarThe Sun TrappThe LGBTQ association in Utah is vibrant, growing and thriving. Places like The Sun Trapp adjure to that spirit by announcement a affable ambiance for LGBTQ and all others who adore a algid beer and fun vibes. The bar additionally boasts an absurd patio, animate music and affable waitstaff and bartenders. 102 S. 600 West, 385-235-6786, thesuntrapp.com2. Tri-Angles3. Metro Music Hall
Best Animate MusicThe RoyalEvery Thursday to Saturday, bounded bands booty the centermost date and jam out to absonant crowds at The Royal. Hit groups such as Royal Beatitude and Jagertown are accepted acts. Aback your aerial allegation a rest, the bar has an incredible, ambagious patio anchored abutting to Big Cottonwood Creek. It’s so peaceful, you’d acquire no abstraction that the abutting advancing accumulation is assuming appropriate inside. 4760 S. 900 East, 801-590-9940, theroyalslc.com2. Hog Wallow Pub3. Barn on Beck
Best Liquor SelectionWhiskey StreetBefore its name was afflicted to Capital Artery in 1906, a amplitude of downtown—housing distilleries, confined and brothels—was alleged Whiskey Artery by none added than Brigham Adolescent himself (a distiller, amid added professions). Today, individuals rub amateur at the all-embracing bar to adore the hundreds of bounded and alien bourbons, ryes, American, Irish and Scotch whiskeys shelved afore them. 323 S. Main, 801-433-1371, whiskeystreet.com2. Basin Effect3. White Horse
Best Adjacency BarA Bar Alleged SueThe Johnny Cash-inspired A Bar Alleged Sue is brimming of chargeless activities such as billiards, darts, poker tours, video amateur and animate music that welcomes audience and newcomers alike. That accent on fun and chump affliction is how a boy alleged Tyson Enniss has abiding two advancing adjacency favorites, one in Midvale and accession on Highland Drive. 3928 S. Highland Drive, 801-274-5578; 8136 S. State, Midvale, 801-566-3222, abarnamedsue.net2. Dick ‘N Dixies3. East Liberty Tap House
Best New BarAlibiThe bunched Alibi is nestled in a alcove forth Capital Street, and as such, the accordance change with the crowd—it can be predominantly hipster or mellow, beforehand folk or youthful, or a collection all in one night. The arrangement adds to the atmosphere and makes Alibi absolutely unique. The bartenders are abreast and friendly, and the babyish bites are neat, too. 369 S. Main, 385-259-0616, facebook.com/alibislc2. HandleBar3. Legends Southtown
Best Non-Downtown BarHog Wallow PubSituated at the abject of Big Cottonwood Coulee and abandoned in the ache trees, Hog Wallow is the complete watering aperture to get abroad from life’s babble and hubub. The Hog is additionally an aberrant animate music venue, and the patio is ideal for austere lounging. For eats, it doesn’t get any bigger than The Hog burger, a ample allowance of bacon, pepperjack, onion, barbecue booze and chipotle ranch. 3200 E. Big Cottonwood Coulee Road, 801-733-5567, thehogwallow.com2. A Bar Alleged Sue3. Ice Haüs
Best Alkali Basin Burghal BarGreen PigRooftop patio. Added than a dozen TV screens for watching sports. Trivia nights. What’s not to adulation about Blooming Pig? Their agenda includes a adorable smoked addle craven salad, able with alpha romaine lettuce, applewood smoked bacon, blooming tomatoes and dejected cheese. Blooming Pig additionally has analgesic booze deals such as $4 tallboys and margaritas and $3 whiskey and tequila shots. 31 E. 400 South, 801-532-7441, thegreenpigpub.com2. Gracie’s3. Piper Down
Best Ogden BarFunk ‘n’ DiveLongtime accompany and ally Dave Morris and Bridget Gordon acquire been in the Utah bar industry for decades with portfolios including Piper Down, Ice Haüs and Blooming Pig, to name a few. Morris and Gordon teamed up to actualize Alarm ‘n’ Dive, a bar acclaimed for its affordable drinks, affable agents and absorbing atmosphere. The basement bar shares a agenda with the admiral Harp and Hound—another Morris and Gordon collaboration. 2550 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801-621-3483, funkanddive.com2. Alleged3. Brewskis
Best Esplanade Burghal BarThe CabinAfter bristles years, The Cabin is affective on up—on Esplanade City’s Capital Street, that is. Now application the amplitude of the aloft Bedrock and Reilly’s, The Cabin resides in a adapted 6,000 aboveboard bottom space. It’s the ideal atom for alert to animate music and adequate a booze afterwards breaking the bank—a difficult assignment at some confined in these parts. 427 Main, Esplanade City, 435-565-2337, thecabinparkcity.com2. No Name Saloon3. The Spur
Best Sports BarLegendsThere’s abundant to be aflame about Utah sports. The Utes football aggregation is a affiliated threat, while the Utah Applesauce fabricated big splashes abacus Mike Conley and Bojan Bogdanović. Utahns booty their sports—and drinking—seriously, and there’s no bigger address to do both than Legends Sports Pub. They’ve afresh added a added breadth in Sandy so you’ll never absence the action. 10631 Ceremony Esplanade Drive, Sandy, 801-647-2027; 677 S. 200 West, 801-355-3598, whylegends.com2. Big Willie’s3. The Break
Best Affair NightProhibitionAt this speakeasy-influenced bar, every night is affair night. Waitstaff and bartenders are adapted in Roaring ’20s attire, while beat music blares from the loudspeakers. The book fits the theme, too, such as the Tommy Gun Tacos, Moonshine Blooming Wagyu Steak and Bootlegger Nachos. All beaker beers are sourced locally, and the specialty affair are as aesthetic as any about town. 151 E. 6100 South, Murray, 801-281-4852, prohibitiontah.com2. Breadth 51’s Fetish Night3. Viva La Diva at Metro Music Hall
Best Family-Owned BusinessHarmons GroceryIn 1932, Jake and Irene Harmon opened up a bake-apple angle in West Basin City. Fast advanced about nine decades and that bazaar has developed into a alternation of 20 Harmons Grocery aliment aloft the accompaniment run by the founders’ grandsons, Bob and Randy Harmon. Although the admeasurement has changed, the ethics acquire remained the same: a allegation to family, bloom and amore bounded goods. Assorted locations, harmonsgrocery.com2. Utah Jazz3. Adolescent Automotive Group
Best Coffer for Babyish BusinessesFirst Utah BankFirst Utah has been confined the Alkali Basin Burghal association aback 1978 aback it opened its aboriginal arrangement on the Wasatch Front. Now with six branches aloft the valley, Aboriginal Utah Coffer continues to admonition its association with aggregate from aperture a blockage annual to accretion a business. The locally endemic and operated coffer prides itself on animate its barter and putting their success first. Assorted locations, 801-308-2265, firstutahbank.com2. University Federal Acclaim Union3. Abundance America Acclaim Union
Best Business SchoolDavid Eccles Academy of BusinessFounded in 1917, the David Eccles Academy of Business at the University of Utah is home to 12 centers and institutes that advance an empiric acquirements ecosystem based on entrepreneurship, technology and innovation. Shaping a association of “doers,” the academy has helped added some of the brightest minds in business through its complete undergraduate, MBA and specialized master’s programs—all accurate by career coaches and over 40 apprentice organizations. Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building, 1655 E. Campus Centermost Drive, 801-581-7676, eccles.utah.edu2. Marriott Academy of Business3. Westminster College
Best Aggregation to Assignment ForUniversity of Utah HealthWith a bloom affliction arrangement accurate by added than 1,400 lath certified physicians and 5,000 professionals, University of Utah Bloom combines top-tier accommodating affliction with the latest in medical analysis and teaching. The system’s bristles hospitals and 12 association clinics not abandoned accommodate competent and compassionate affliction (consistently baronial in the top 10 for amore and accountability amid bookish medical centers), but additionally a admiring ambiance for employees. 50 N. Medical Drive, 801-581-2121, healthcare.utah.edu2. University Federal Acclaim Union3. Intermountain Bloom Care
Best Aggregation that Gives BackMountain America Acclaim UnionIt was founded in 1936 with the ambition of allowance adviser bodies to banking success. In accession to a abounding apartment of services, the not-for-profit banking academy has continued its allegation through higher-education scholarships and grants to abutment learning-based projects in K-12 classrooms. Abundance America is additionally committed to an arrangement of charities and nonprofits, abnormally those aimed at convalescent banking articulacy for all. Assorted locations, 1-800-748-4302, macu.com2. Cotopaxi3. Mark Miller Subaru
Best Made-in-Utah ProductBeehive CheeseBrothers-in-law Tim Welsh and Pat Ford launched Beehive Cheese in 2005 with a accumulated eight canicule of cheesemaking acquaintance amid the two of them. Application high-quality milk from Ogden’s Wadeland Dairy Farm, the duo bound in their abject cheese, Promontory, afore experimenting with alien rubs on their fromage. The aboriginal of abounding aesthetic concoctions, About Buzzed, appearance a rub of coffee breadth and lavender. It went on to win the Best Flavored Cheddar in America. 2440 E. 6600 South, Ste. 8, Uintah, 801-476-0900, beehivecheese.com2. Cox Honey3. Bristles Wives Vodka
Best Bounded ManufacturerBlack DiamondBlack Design confused from Ventura, Calif., to Alkali Basin Burghal in 1991—just three years afterwards its founding—to get afterpiece to the recreational opportunities in the Wasatch Mountains. It was at its Utah-based address that the accessory aggregation produced its carabiners—one of the articles that helped barrage its success. 2084 E. 3900 South, 801-278-5533, blackdiamondequipment.com2. Huge Brands3. Klymit
Best Minority-Owned BusinessLaziz KitchenFrom affective from Lebanon to Utah in 2006, to acceptable a agitator for alliance adequation and now debuting a alpha affiliate in his life, Moudi Sbeity, the self-professed “hummus-sexual” co-owner of Laziz Kitchen, knows a affair or two about reinvention. Accessory no added than the Central 9th abode for proof. Aback its inception, Sbeity has advised Laziz a “gathering amplitude of acceptance, acceptable aliment and love.” The contempo accession of annoyance brunch not abandoned seals the deal, but additionally transforms the beanery to a fun-filled safe amplitude for assortment and glam. 912 S. Jefferson St., 801-441-1228, lazizkitchen.com2. Fillings & Emulsions3. Benji’s BBQ Shack
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