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Thanks for reading along in 2025. This is an end-of-year reminder that the current ad-free experience needs your support to continue as is. Those persnickety third-party ads vanished in March 2024, and hopefully, you’ve been enjoying the much-improved reading experience ever since. I don’t have any plans at present to bring them back, indeed I’ve been bowled over by your support in 2025. Seriously, thank you from the bottom of an eternally humbled belly. Dozens of you have hit the link below to subscribe, and continue to do so, which helps massively with the costs associated with running Gastronomic SLC.

Should you wish to pop a few dollars into the “Oh please god don’t bring those awful ads back” fund, the cost is five dollars per month. You can subscribe and support the site via the following Patreon page:

https://www.patreon.com/gastronomicslc

I don’t have any fancy bells or whistles or extra features for that donation (though let me know if you have any unique ideas). Subscribe for a month, a year, or heck, never at all – the site is completely free to read in its entirety.

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.

I’ve worked extensively with multiple local publications from Visit Salt Lake to Salt Lake Magazine, not least helped to consult on national TV.   Pause those credits, yep, that’s me! I’m also a former restaurant critic of more than five years, working for the Salt Lake Tribune.    I’m largely fueled by a critical obsession with rice, alliteration and the use of big words I don’t understand.   What they’re saying about me: “Not inaccurate”, “I thought he was older”, “I don’t share his feelings”.

Want to know more? This is why I am the way I am.