All the new restaurant and bar licenses issued in the February DABS meeting

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

• Lupita’s Valley Mexican Restaurant, Heber
• Kpot Korean BBQ and Hot Pot, Layton
• Touch of Tuscany, Hurricane
• Bout Time Pub & Grub, Bluffdale
• Desi Kitchen, Draper
• Los Tapatios Taco Grill, West Jordan

Limited-service restaurant licenses (beer, wine)

• Pockets Pool Hall and Diner, Taylorsville
• Thai Spoon, Murray
• La Lola Taco, Murray (pictured top, courtesy Salt Plate City)
• Arrabiata Restaurant, Ivins
• Shake Shack, Summit County
• Nettle Salad Co., Millcreek
• Laan Thai Restaurant, Logan

Bar licenses

27 licenses were available for bars in Utah entering the March DABS meeting. The VFW in Millcreek / Sugar House (Ben G Russo Post 3586) was granted a license after being closed for some time. Meanwhile, The Back Door Bar (Vernal) was issued a license at a subsequent special session on March 4th.

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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.

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”.

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