We finish up the year with our final famous Utahn. What better way to finish the year than with Larry Miller.
It’s time to go through the food part of City Weekly Best of Utah 2020. Chris says, he loves Moochie’s but “you can’t make meatballs that big and make a successful sandwich.”
The link to follow along with our food journey on City Weekly’s website. We highly recommend, in midst of the pandemic, to go through this guide and support these local businesses. If you aren’t comfortable going to a restaurant, order to go food! We need these businesses, they shape our community, and they employee our citizens.
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Every year we take liberties with City Weekly’s annual Best of Utah issue and do a recap of some of our favorites that may have been missed. Think of it as like Mystery 3k but podcast and for a magazine. We always end up wondering if people really love La Caille. Does anyone want to pay for us to go so we can make a best determination if it should continue to be voted on? We promise to reenact the scene from Dumb and Dumber.
With many incredible Utah owned businesses, we find ourselves perplexed why the same 3 are appearing every single year in the same categories. Utahn’s, step outside your comfort zone and try something new! A huge thank you to the Saltas family for doing such an incredible job keeping their heads above water during this year. We appreciate you.
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How do you write about the people that are always doing the writing?
If you have listened to our show for any amount of time, you know we have an unbridled love for Salt Lake’s own, City Weekly publication. This episode we were able to sit down with one of the owners, Pete Saltas.
Did you know the Saltas family have been the owners of City Weekly since day one? We loved learning the history of the newspaper! In the 80’s, 1984 to be exact, Pete’s father John was working in local Utah bars and decided to start his own local entertainment guide/newsletter for members because of the archaic liquor laws. Members you ask? A little Utah history… once upon a time Utah required memberships to even go into a bar/club. It was usually about a $5 cost. Fast forward to 2020, bar memberships are gone, and City Weekly is the voice of Salt Lake!
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Quite often you see Pete, his brother Mikey, and their father John writing editorials in the paper. (There are other Saltas family members, we haven’t met them yet) Their voices, and so many other incredible writers, including their Editor in Chief, Enrique Limon, have made City Weekly a paper that is often referred to as “a voice of sanity and a huge part of change in our state.” Whether the weekly issue features local politics, what is happening on a bigger scale in the world, LGBTQ+ issues, religious issues, or is a bigger annual issue such as the city guide or the ever popular Best Of Utah edition, the writers at City Weekly are aware of everything happening in our state. It’s actually pretty incredible if you think about how on top of it they are! What about the entertainment guide that John created? Even though stories eventually had to be incorporated, City Weekly has always stayed true to it’s roots, and purpose, by offering throughout every issue a taste of local events.
Not only does City Weekly offer weekly stories and an entertainment guide, they offer their own marketplace! A space where you can purchase limited item specials for local businesses, and a space where you can purchase tickets to events that come in to town. We had an incredible chat about new ways to make money for the newspaper, and we think you should listen to what we came up with! Let us know if you think it could work.
Of course while we had Pete sitting down with us, we wanted to know why, oh why, La Caille is always winning all the awards in Best Of Utah. We hope someday we can make as many issues as dear old La Caille.
Dumb and Dumber/New Line Cinema Filmed at La Caille, Sandy Utah.
We look forward to sharing articles from City Weekly and celebrating the incredible writers that are so passionate about our state. We love doing our annual Best Of Utah recap each fall/winter and appreciate the opportunity to do so. With the current climate of the Covid-19 virus and social distancing we are practicing at this time, as well as state mandates, we hope that the Utah Cann 2020 Conference and the famous Utah Beer Festival will be making their annual appearances later this year. To stay on top of upcoming events and articles from City Weekly, you can sign up for weekly newsletters. You can also follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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We want to thank Enrique Limon, editor at City Weekly, for recognizing The New Utah Podcast this year as the 2018 “Best Best of Podcast” in their staff picks section under “things.” We may have not gotten the popular vote, but being recognized by the magazine and editors that create these categories is such an honor! We are incredibly humbled and of course stoked!
Click on the photo for the e-copy of Best of Utah 2018
This particular winning made us all giggle because each show we talk about how we never create “best of” episodes of our past shows. And here we are, being recognized for being Best Best Of, but just in a better way!
It’s a highlight of our year going through the City Weekly Best of Utah (2017pt.1/2017pt.2 and 2016). This will be our third year doing our episode with our personal favorites in the magazine! Stay tuned for that episode, we want to give some time for it to get around the valley before we put in our two cents!
Thanks to everyone that DID vote for us in the readers choice, we appreciate your support more than we could ever vocalize!
Now you’ve pulled up that magazine or picked one up, keep it in your car and challenge yourself to try new things through Utah over the next year!
The New Utah was treated by Emily Park of Indulge Eats. She makes some of THE best caramels you’ve ever had, homemade marshmallows, she is part of a ladies home-brewing club, and she teaches classes at Alta. If you haven’t had her sweets you can find her at local festivals and markets around Salt Lake City and now she is featured in Lemon and Sage in Springville, Utah! You can order here stuff online HERE but we suggest getting out at meeting her. Follow her on Facebook!
How fitting for our 27th episode we thought we would have some fun, not like we haven’t before, and print out all of the City Weekly Best of 2016 list on THEIR 27th anniversary and go through and pick out our favorites. What we loved and what we thought should be included! Everything from Kevin’s chicken, Ruby Snap, the peaches at Gourmandise, Ogden’s Own, Hot Springs and some hikes and Bear Lake, Comic Book stores, Kerry Jackson, Iconoclad’s amazing social media presence, Ben Winslow having the best Utah twitter (you should follow him), the best donuts, our friends at Mountain West Cider, and of COURSE Misty K Snow!
BTW… We do not condone people voting for corporate stores that aren’t based in Utah. We have plenty of awesome locals.
What did you think should have made their list?
PS. Chris Loves the Spice Girls. (but who doesn’t?)
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