Sunday, July 03, 2005

Culinary Report: Park City, Utah


The majority of my meals in the past week have been home cooked. Nothing new there, but many of them I did not prepare, which is totally foreign for me. I learned a few tricks (home made pasta while on the road…) was incredible, and just to see what everyone likes and dislikes is interesting.
Today I had the chance to venture out and try some of the local cuisine (besides Starbucks and Quizno’s subs)
All Park City Cuisine is divided into 3 parts. Main Street (DisneyLand), Red Rock (Disney World) and everything else. Everything else is not too interesting and the Main Street area while interesting is way overpriced. I went back for Southwestern food for lunch, and was disappointed at the value (Food Quality / Food Price). Late this afternoon I visited Red Stone Shopping Center and tried 2 different places.
The first Wild Oats Natural Eatery at first glance is an organic, Nazi Eco Friendly (California) style market place that has both a restaurant and selective grocery store. The salads and deli items did look good and fresh, and certainly they had a huge assortment of power bars the like. A definite stop for those who care about what they eat. Also for those who care an assortment of organic chap stick.
The second was the cornerstone restaurant called Red Rock. Just like any American Beer Centric restaurant, it was cold, sterile and loud. The food value though was much higher than that of Main Street. I had the local beer, steak and JalapeƱo pizza with a house salad for about 12 dollars. They also had OLN on and where showing the tour (in case I missed something on the first two showings today I saw), and they had a display of the cycling kit which their bike team rides in. How cool is that?

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