Salt Lake MUST EATS

[YOhio]

Su Casa on 5th East. Or the Su Casa somewhere around 69th and State. Awesome Mexican food and great salsa.

[Shaka]

you have to try it. it is so good. best chinese food you will ever eat.

I agree with this.

[TripletDaddy]

you have to try it. it is so good. best chinese food you will ever eat.

[Katy Lied]

If Im in Bountiful I'm basically eating at The Mandarin, which is amazingly delicious Chinese food.

[TripletDaddy]

The Jimmy Johns franchise in Bountiful maintains consistency with the food I expect from the Jimmy Johns brand. I was satisfied with my meal there.

If you are in Bountiful and interested in food that meets and maybe even exceeds Jimmy Johns brand standards, then the Bountiful Jimmy Johns is your place.

If Im in Bountiful I'm basically eating at The Mandarin, which is amazingly delicious Chinese food.

[wally]

The Jimmy Johns franchise in Bountiful maintains consistency with the food I expect from the Jimmy Johns brand. I was satisfied with my meal there.

If you are in Bountiful and interested in food that meets and maybe even exceeds Jimmy Johns brand standards, then the Bountiful Jimmy Johns is your place.

[Shaka]

This may have been covered but last Saturday I ate at Del Mar al Lago which is a Peruvian restaurant. I had Lomo Saltado and it was excellent!

[Katy Lied]

Annex by Epic, it's their microbrewery restaurant. I was finally able to try poutine. As much as I snicker about the nonexistence of a Canadian cuisine, the poutine was pretty good, or at least as good as gravy fries gets. The bouchet mussels were divine- probably the best mussels I have had. It was the first time my work colleague ever tried mussels and I told him that it was going to be all downhill from here. The charcuterie was decent but not much variation in selection. The entres were okay- my risotto was great but other items were pedestrian- especially the ragu.

The brewery had terrible selections for nondrinkers, basically water. One of our clients ordered 7 drinks. Wow.

[CardiacCoug]

Caffe Niche does a nice job and they have recently refreshed the menu with a lot of good options.

Yup I love that place.

[TripletDaddy]

Caffe Niche does a nice job and they have recently refreshed the menu with a lot of good options.

[Shaka]

Anyone been to the 9th South Deli? Interesting article on the owner:

http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/...-jewish-delis/

I have. I really like it.

[Pelado]

We went to black sheep last night and loved it. Fantastic place. We didn't find much grease going on so not sure about that. We had shrimp as an app, I had a big bowl of posole (fantastic) and the green chile Navajo taco. Everything was great and we will definitely go back. Forgot, we also had that cactus drink. Yum.

Learn something new every day:

Since maize was a sacred plant for the Aztecs and other inhabitants of Mesoamerica, pozole was made to be consumed on special occasions. The conjunction of maize (usually whole hominy kernels) and meat in a single dish is of particular interest to scholars because the ancient Americans believed the gods made humans out of masa (cornmeal dough). According to research by the National Institute of Anthropology and History and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, on these special occasions, the meat used in the pozole was human.[5] After the prisoners were killed by having their hearts torn out in a ritual sacrifice, the rest of the body was chopped and cooked with maize. The meal was shared among the whole community as an act of religious communion. After the Conquest, when cannibalism was banned, pork became the staple meat as it "tasted very similar", according to a Spanish priest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pozole

[Armenag]

Anyone been to the 9th South Deli? Interesting article on the owner:

http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/...-jewish-delis/

[TripletDaddy]

I was expecting way more snark in this, with at least some dig about a coffee shop. Are you ok?

Yeah, I think it was a case of too high expectations. I often just ask for the waiter's recommendation, which is how I arrived at the Navajo taco. I never really love them--I think they're an odd, state fair-ish mix of flavors--so I probably shouldn't have ordered it, but I thought I'd try what seems to be their signature dish. The posole sounds much more interesting, as do the desserts. We'll try it again.

I'm on an airplane right now so I try to keep my karma levels as high as possible.

i may revisit my response in a couple of hours!

[ERCougar]

It is a fair point. When you put "cafe" in the name, you temper expectations. These guys are doing new takes on comfort food, basically, so I'm not surprised by the pedestrian fare....Navajo tacos, enchiladas, chimichangas. Heck, one of the most famous restaurants in NYC over the past 20 years, Union Square Cafe, has a pretty basic menu itself. I was really impressed by how well black sheep did what they did, but you are right...don't go expecting a 6 course meal and a sommelier at your table.

the posole was really good. I would suggest that to anyone that enjoys a nice soup. My wife had the chimi and that was also very tasty. Like most, I think I'm going to try the hog jowl tacos next time.

they also change up the dessert menu and right now they are making this cinnamon horchata bread pudding that sounded ab-fab. We skipped it because we were headed to Taste afterward, but I might go back just to eat the dessert.

i think you could find BSC in any large city and it would do well (maybe not cause lines around the block, but it would do well). For Provo, the Communal/BSC/712 thing is about as good as it is going to get, at least for a long time. It is very respectable for here.

I was expecting way more snark in this, with at least some dig about a coffee shop. Are you ok?

Yeah, I think it was a case of too high expectations. I often just ask for the waiter's recommendation, which is how I arrived at the Navajo taco. I never really love them--I think they're an odd, state fair-ish mix of flavors--so I probably shouldn't have ordered it, but I thought I'd try what seems to be their signature dish. The posole sounds much more interesting, as do the desserts. We'll try it again.