A quiet September DABS meeting sees one bar and nine restaurants approved

Bar licenses

Eight Settler’s Lounge was the solitary winner of a bar license at the September gathering. Expected to open in December in downtown SLC’s Exchange Place, Eight Settler’s was one of only two applicants for the five available licenses. The other, The Venus Club in Tooele, was bumped to the October meeting.

Full-service restaurant licenses (beer, wine, liquor)

Entering the meeting, the state had fifty-four full-service licenses remaining in the inventory. The following four names walked away with a newly minted permit:

• House of Corn Mexican Cuisine, Salt Lake City
• Aroma Fine Indian Cuisine, Draper
• Ramen Ichizu, Salt Lake City
• Matilda, Park City, December

Limited service restaurant licenses (beer, wine)

Four names also snagged this more limited license type:

• Zaferan Cafe, Cottonwood Heights
• Oh Shabu & BBQ, Layton
• Granny’s Drive In, Heber City
• Spitz, Park City

Finally, a beer-only license was awarded to El Patron Mexican Food (St. George), while both the new Asher Adams Hotel (SLC, expected October 15th) and the Hilton Salt Lake City were awarded Type 1 package agency licenses.

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Stuart Melling

Hi, I’m Stuart, nice to meet you!  I’m the founder, writer and wrangler at Gastronomic SLC.  I’m a multiple-award winning journalist and have written in myopic detail about the Salt Lake City  dining scene for the better part of seventeen years.

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