Main Street food tour – Park City, UT

I have always wanted to participate in a food tour. I finally took part in the Park City Food Tours. We did a food tour that started at 4:00 and ended at 7:00. We learned both about food, and the history of the town. We visited four restaurants and one last surprise stop (not a restaurant) at the end. Click here to book a summer tour.

The first restaurant we visited was the Wasatch Brew Pub. The place had a lot of history itself, so that part was interesting. Every place we went to, they gave us a little something to try which is either something popular on there menu, or they might have just gotten those ingredients recently and they are fresh. The serving size varied for every restaurant. Here we got fried shrimps with a mango cilantro sauce. The shrimps were done really well, and were nice and crispy. The cilantro made the sauce taste exceptionally good.

The next restaurant was Cisero’s which is only a couple buildings down from the brewery. The design inside was a bit old fashioned, but they did extend the restaurant in the back which makes the space feel more open and easier to enjoy. At Cisero’s we got served a plate with four tasters. The first item was their famous chips and aioli, which are served at lunch with all their sandwiches. The chips were pretty good for being chips, and the aioli was nice, but it was also very heavy. Next there was a bruschetta which had tomato and mozzarella which was nice and simple. The next taster was the ravioli with a creamy pesto sauce. I liked the inside of the ravioli, but the pesto sauce was a little too filling so one ravioli was good for me. The last taster was salmon with fingerling potatoes. The salmon I thought wasn’t the best, but other people thought it was good. I am very picky when it comes to salmon. It was a little on the drier side, and a little cold. I am not sure I would go back to Cisero’s personally, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try it yourself. The restaurant looks great for families with big appetites.

Then we went to one of my favorites Talisker on Main. I wrote a blog about this restaurant about two years ago. It is still amazing, and always fairly busy. The funny thing was that we went the night before the food tour to Talisker not knowing we would go again the next night. There we were served lobster & crab beignets. It was on the bigger side for an appetizer, but was still amazing. I love pickles, and there were lots of little pickles on the dish and the went along nicely with the beignets.

Lastly, we visited Silver, which is across the street from Talisker. We had always wanted to go there, so it was perfect to try it out. This place probably served my favorite dish of the night. It was cod with sea green beans and plumcot (half plum half apricot). The sea green beans were phenomenal. I’m not too big into veggies, but I could eat this forever. The dish really worked well all together. I love the ambiance and decor of the restaurant, very hip, and I definitely could see myself going back. The general manager, Shawn Hyer (image below), was great in telling us all the history about the place.

Overall, the food tour was a great experience, and I would do another one in a heartbeat. I learned so much from each restaurant, as well as in general, the history of Park City. The last stop we did was at Mountain Body, and we got a “extensive hand wash.” We used different lotions and cleansers to clean our hands. I now really wish I would have bought some!

Thank you so much Shirin for a great and entertaining tour, and showing me the hidden gems on Main Street.

Tina

Flashback @ 2013 – top 5 dining/food experiences

Hello followers, Here is a flashback at the top five restaurant or recipes of 2013 (I have posted about some, but not all):

5) Tavern at Table One – Park City, UT

Table One, is a beautiful upstairs restaurant. Downstairs below it, is Tavern, a ski lodge mimic with a great little bar and some high tables to catch up with friends or have a drink. We went to The Tavern on two of the nights we were in Park City, once for a meal and once for just some appetizers and drinks.  The two nights combined we had ordered a variety of dishes. Some of which included a jumbo shrimp cocktail and carnitas tacos. Definitely recommended!

Jumbo Shrimp Cocktail with classic cocktail sauce and lemon.

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Carnitas Tacos with crème fraiche, cilantro, pico de gallo, and flour tortilla.

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4) Cake Decorating

As many of you know, from an earlier post, I have taken up cake decorating. This new hobby is a great way for me to relax, while getting to eat yummy cake 🙂 For x-mas, I received two great little tins, to make layered cakes, which I am looking to start in the new year. Here is my first cake that I did without any help.

This is a vanilla cake decorated with frosting, and the snowflakes are made out of fondant and decorated with a special mixture that includes blue sprinkles.

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These are some little flowering details I did at the edge of my cake, made out of frosting that I dyed pink.

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3) Dinner with Russell Jackson – Flashback of Food Network Star

Even though I have already posted about this fabulous dinner, I will always remember it. See older post for pics and more info.

2) Raclette – New Years Eve meal

This New Years Eve we celebrated with some friends and had raclette. Raclette is a Swiss dish were you melt cheese and then put it over potato or bread. Then you add on some spices and it is great. I recommend for family dinners and get togethers. Unfortunately, I did not have the opportunity to take some pictures, although here is a link that will show you some pictures of raclette:

A Raclette cooker (image credit “The Cheese Shop”).

1) Dinner with Russell Jackson & Stacy Poon-Kinney

This was definitely my top food experience this year. Russell Jackson was there of course, but on top of that Stacy Poon-Kinney, another contestant on Food Network Star, was there as well. She did cook as well as talked with all the guests and it was great hearing her experience of being on the show. I was also another big fan of her throughout the show. It was a great birthday surprise and I’m definitely  going to visit Stacy’s restaurant in San Diego (The Trails Eatery). Here are a few photos from the dinner:

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Chocolate eclair on top of pig blood ice cream and some breadcrumbs.

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Russell, Stacy, and I: What a great dinner, thanks so much Russell and Stacy!

I hope you liked my flashback of my top 5 food experiences.

Coming up next: Such an simple yet yummy pancake recipe!

 

Thanks,

Tina

Food Trucks!

Today I spent the day with my family going to different food trucks. It was amazing. We had a great time on Treasure Island at the flea market and there was so much great food. We went to two different trucks for lunch and two for dessert and coffee. We went to Curry-up, an Indian truck, and Sam’s ChowderMobile a Californian truck. At Curry-up we had two amazing dishes. One was chicken curry mix with rice and the other was a vegetarian version of that. They were both great but the aftertaste of the dishes was quite spicy. We ate that while we were waiting in line for the ChowderMobile. The ChowderMobile had the longest line. It was worth it though. At the ChowderMobile, we of course had to have there signature chowder, calamari, and lobster roll. I loved the chowder, but it got very cold fast because it was windy. I loved loved loved the calamari. It was not too greasy at all. It came with a great dipping sauce. The sauce was some sort of ranch. The lobster roll was very good. It was so good, but I only got one bite because my mom devoured it in no time. The lobster roll came with some amazing coleslaw. For dessert my mom and dad went to a cute little espresso truck. They had espresso’s and they loved it. I went to Harvey’s Doughnut Truck. He sells these cute mini doughnuts. Unfortunately, they only come by the dozen, but you couldn’t resist especially since you could see how they were made outside in a machine. I took the half and half. Half of the doughnuts were cinnamon sugar and the other half were powdered sugar. They tasted really good and they weren’t too sweet. I shared them with my parents and there was only one left in the end. Overall it was a great experience. It wasn’t too cheap but it was definitely worth the 40 minute drive. I hope you try out some food trucks because they are the new hip thing!

Thank you all my readers!

Tina – The Foodinator

Restaurant Review: Solage- Solbar

Solage is a very fine place. Solage is actually the hotel, but next to it – not inside, but next to it- is a wonderful restaurant called Solbar. Solbar is nice and relaxing. I personally never like to go to restaurants that are in hotels because it is uncomfortable for me but, Solbar I am okay with because surprisingly all the tourists that go to Solage – the hotel- stay in the Solage pool area and order food from that menu. All the residents and tourists go to Solbar for dining. Anyways, the location that Solbar is in makes it very hot during the end of spring, summer, and the start of fall. If you are sitting outside at Solbar during these times be prepared to be tortured by flies (or just ignore them which is impossible for me, I do not know about you). If you are sitting inside be prepared to bring a jacket because they must have the best AC company working for them, in there it is freezing.

Despite the weather at Solbar, the food is excellent. I don’t know the whole menu so I am just going to say some specifics.

Corn soup – As I should say, chilled corn soup. This corn soup has one adjective to describe it – amazing. The corn soup is creamy and when you sip it, it fills your stomach well. This corn soup makes you be fulfilled with joy. I recommend this corn soup very much, but remember to eat it inside because as we all know that this is a flies favorite meal.

Tuna Burger – This burger is a very big burger. It is still quite decent though. For burger lovers it is good but not for tuna lovers. The tuna is very plain and when you eat it, you can tell it is on the heavier side. If you didn’t notice before, I mentioned it was plain. When I say plain for a burger it does not sound good. It is a thick tuna sort of burger like a slice, in between a top burger bun and a bottom burger bun. No parsley to top it off or any salt, just those two things.  So anyways, I had that tuna burger – couldn’t finish it at all, of course. I only ate like two thirds. I think that tuna should be prepared very light and thin and maybe even on a salad.

The other things on the menu were good – but I am not going to spoil anything.

For children the pros and cons are: pros – there is a boccie area to play.  cons – it may get a little boring for them.

For adults the pros and cons are: pros – wine. My grandma is enjoying a glass of wine (see picture). cons – the tables are too tight next to each other.

Solage is in Calistoga around Napa valley. Very nice area but again the weather can be very hot.

Please feel free to write comments and I hope that this review was helpful to you.

Thank you for taking your time and energy to read this.

Bye!