The October DABS meeting was another swift affair, mirroring prior months. Proceedings ticked along at a brisk pace, with the following thirty names all receiving… Read More »Three bars and twenty-nine restaurants licensed at Oct DABS meeting
Another month, another swathe of new restaurant openings up and down the Wasatch. Here’s the latest dozen or so new names to check out, as… Read More »Draper welcomes new BBQ spot, plus other local Utah restaurant openings
Well, well, well. I didn’t see that coming – and neither did you. Unless, of course, you scrutinized every line item of H.B. 548, aka,… Read More »DABS awards all remaining Utah bar licenses at February meeting
The first DABS meeting of the year was another brisk one, thanks as ever to a much-streamlined process than years past. Of the few notable… Read More »Sixteen new restaurant and bar liquor licenses awarded at DABS meeting
The final DABS meeting of the year was held today, turning out to be quite the brisk one too. Amidst the brief 60 minute affair,… Read More »Utah DABS ends 2023 issuing nine new bar and restaurant licenses
An exceptionally brisk August DABS meeting wrapped at the practically unheard time of 10.40 a.m. this week; in no small part due to the streamlined… Read More »Two new bars licensed in Utah, plus upcoming rare liquor draw
After kicking off with a warm welcome to new DABS chair Tara Thue (taking over from Juliette Tennert), the majority of July’s DABS meeting was… Read More »Four new Utah bars awarded licenses at July’s DABS meeting
A frenzied brisket fueled week in Austin (more on that soon) prevented me recapping May’s DABS meeting sadly (actually I’m not that sad). So here’s… Read More »The latest Utah bars and restaurants to receive liquor licenses
The headline news from April’s DABS meeting – the likely exhaustion of even more liquor license types. The writing has been on the wall for… Read More »Liqour licenses continue to dwindle at April’s DABS meeting
Bookending the March DABS meeting, some fairly surprising news with DABS staff confirming three rare as tantalum, bar licenses would be up for the taking… Read More »Three surprise bar licenses granted In March DABS meeting
Welcome back aboard the good ship new and notable, and frankly, what’s been a relative calm sea. The pace of openings over the past month… Read More »Rooftop cocktails, African cuisine and a food hall – new restaurant highlights for March
With all the headlines decrying a departing NBA’s labeling of Utah as boring – today’s DABS meeting left one feeling a better phrase might have… Read More »February’s DABS liquor meeting points to a challenging year ahead for Utah
After the storied DABS voyage that was 2022, and a particularly choppy end of the year, January’s DABS meeting offered calmer waters; surely a portent… Read More »January’s DABS meeting a quiet one
Well that was a head scratcher. Maybe someone was passing around the egg nog, but the final DABS meetup of 2022 left this curious onlooker… Read More »Final Utah DABS meeting of 2022 proves an intriguing one
After last month’s DABS meeting you might recall I posed this not entirely rhetorical conundrum. When tasked with managing Utah’s most precious of resources –… Read More »Zero bars granted license at Utah’s September DABS meeting
If recent DABS meetings weren’t worrying enough for would be bar owners, the August meeting writ large the reality of a distressing future. Entering the… Read More »Utah liquor licensing starting to turn the screw on local businesses
The headline news – at least according to out of state onlookers and column inches – is the return of mini bottles in the Beehive.… Read More »No new bars granted license – plus mini bottles return
As the clock ticks down to the June DABC meeting (sorry it’s DABS now folks) so the interest escalates around who exactly will snaffle up… Read More »Liquor license frenzy approaches – mark your calendars
Well there you have it. Two months into the year and bar licenses are pretty much toast. Want to open a bar in Utah? Come… Read More »Utah bar licenses exhausted until the Summer after DABC meeting
While food prices might be soaring – 12% in some categories according to the Des News – at least there isn’t an industry wing shortage… Read More »Superbowl Sunday specials in Utah