One thing you can say about the folks at the St. Regis Deer Valley is that they aren’t content to rest on their laurels. Last year, they rebranded J&G Grill as RIME Seafood & Steak - a welcome improvement of a restaurant that had gotten a bit stale, now with talented Chef Matthew Harris at the helm. I reviewed RIME this summer in Utah Bites. More recently, Brasserie … [Read more...]
Utah Ski Resort Roundup
Alta The 2019-20 is Alta Ski Area’s 82nd ski season serving up lift served skiing. Alta started out as a mining town and in 1938 the first chairlift was scooping skiers up to earn powder turns. A nightly booking at all lodges includes breakfast and dinner. Alta receives an average yearly snowfall of 547” inches with 2,614 skiable acres. “If you can see it, you can it.” With … [Read more...]
Mr. Shabu, Goldener Hirsch, The Store
Title: Food & Drink 411 Mr. Shabu Opens at The Gateway Mr. Shabu - a restaurant specializing in shabu-shabu, an Asian hot pot dish - will open at The Gateway’s newly renovated Restaurant Row on Saturday, November 30th. The new restaurant will be open for dinner only during their first week in operation, and then open seven days per week from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for … [Read more...]
Deer Valley Resort 2019 U.S. Best Ski Resort
DEER VALLEY RESORT NAMED 2019 UNITED STATES' BEST SKI RESORT BY WORLD SKI AWARDS RESORT RECEIVES TOP HONORS FOR SEVENTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR Deer Valley Resort maintains the coveted title of the 2019 United States’ Best Ski Resort by the World Ski Awards for the seventh year in a row. The accomplishment was announced at the World Ski Awards Gala Ceremony at the world-class … [Read more...]
Tyler Mugford New Hotel General Manager at Deer Valley
GOLDENER HIRSCH APPOINTS TYLER MUGFORD AS HOTEL GENERAL MANAGER AT DEER VALLEY Tyler Mugford will oversee operations at the charming ski-in/ski-out, 18-room luxury property which offers an authentic European atmosphere and award-winning, fine-dining restaurant, as well as the residential expansion of a second adjacent property slated to open in summer of 2020. The expansion … [Read more...]
DEER VALLEY DINING – A Sneak Peak at 2019-2020 Season
Utah's Chefs Go to The Big Apple Recently, I attended a remarkable media dinner - a preview of some of the new dishes that will be appearing on restaurant menus throughout Deer Valley Resort this ski season. The evening’s delights were created and cooked up by a team of six uber-talented Deer Valley chefs, including Director of Food and Beverage, Jodie Rogers, and chefs Chris … [Read more...]
Sip o’ the Week: The Brass Tag
Mountaineer Cocktail from The Brass Tag I’d recommend kicking off a meal at Deer Valley with a new signature cocktail which was created by mixologist and restaurant manager Josh Hockman at Deer Valley’s Brass Tag restaurant: The “Mountaineer.” It’s a delicious blend of Alpine Distillery Traveler’s Rest whiskey, with smoked Vermont maple syrup and Scrappy’s Orleans bitters with … [Read more...]
All That Shimmers … A Visit to Deer Valley’s Glitretind Restaurant
A couple of weeks ago, friends from New Orleans were in town—one of which was performing at Park City’s Egyptian Theatre for a trio of shows. Before joining my wife and me for dinner on her night off, our guest had a couple of requests: she doesn’t eat pork and she doesn’t like noisy restaurants (neither do I). Zeroing in on one of the most serene dining spots … [Read more...]
Chowder & Powder: Seafood and Snow at Deer Valley Resort
Utah may be landlocked, but there is no shortage of seafood to be found here. To wit, it’s hard to walk two blocks without running into a sushi restaurant. And Gastronomy, Inc. has been flying in fresh seafood daily for their Market Street restaurants for decades now. Even so, you probably wouldn’t expect a ski resort to be a seafood haven. That is, unless it was … [Read more...]
ONE Wasatch – Controversial Ski Lift Proposal
Get ready for more fighting over ONE Wasatch, the controversial proposal to connect Wasatch Mountain ski resorts with a plethora of new ski lifts. The battle has been escalating ever since Ski Utah—the marketing firm for all of Utah’s snow resorts---held a press conference last March to announce the ONE Wasatch concept. ONE Wasatch calls for connecting seven ski resorts … [Read more...]