Pat’s BBQ on West Commonwealth Avenue in Salt Lake City has been making a case that Utah deserves a serious BBQ reputation since Pat Hughes opened it with a conviction that low-and-slow smoked meat is not a regional specialty but a universal truth. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, […]
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Barbecue, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 5, UtahIn 1930, Ruth Evans opened Ruth’s Hamburgers in the old Meredith Building at 120 East Second South in downtown Salt Lake City. When the building was scheduled for demolition in 1946, she purchased an old Utah Light and Traction Company trolley car and moved her business rather than close it. In the spring of 1949
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American, Breakfast, Diner, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 5, UtahManuel Valdez and his brother have been running Lone Star Taqueria on Fort Union Boulevard since 1994, building a loyal Salt Lake Valley following around carne adovada, fish tacos, and the kind of authentic Mexican cooking that Sunset magazine named the “West’s Best Taco.” Lone Star appeared in Season 4, Episode 13 of Diners, Drive-Ins
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Mexican, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 4, UtahMoochie’s Meatballs and More on East 800 South in Salt Lake City built its reputation on bringing serious Philadelphia-style cheesesteaks and meatball subs to a city that had very little access to either. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 11 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Grabbin’ a Sandwich,” which aired October 13, 2008, and Guy
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Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 4, UtahIn 1965 Ramon and Maria Cardenas took over a small restaurant called Casa Grande in downtown Salt Lake City, with Maria cooking and Ramon waiting tables, sharing the Mexican dishes they had grown up with in Chihuahua. Twenty years later, in 1985, they reinvented it as Red Iguana on North Temple. The original location accommodated
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Mexican, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 4, UtahBlue Plate Diner appeared in Season 4, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Diners You Sent Me To,” which aired July 14, 2008, as a viewer-nominated Salt Lake City diner serving creative American comfort food with a scratch-made approach that earned its spot in the episode. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts
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American, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 4, UtahBurger Bar in Roy, Utah has been a local institution since the 1950s, operating as a classic American drive-in and burger joint that serves the kind of honest, no-shortcuts burger that built the drive-in’s reputation as an American cultural institution. It appeared in Season 3, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “In the Family,”
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