City Weekly Best of Utah 2019

Best of Utah 2019: Sips & Sweets

25 reader-voted winners in sips & sweets, from the City Weekly Best of Utah 2019 poll.

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• Best BakeryFillings & Emulsions

  Adalberto Diaz has long been considered one of the best pastry chefs in all the land. In 2012, he was named the American Culinary Federation Pastry Chef of the Year. He's also frequented… — Runners-up: Eva's Bakery, Tulie Bakery

• Best Chocolate ConcoctionsC. Kay Cummings Candies

  A rare breed in 2019, Cummings chocolates continues their 80-year family tradition of hand-dipping caramels, richly flavored cream centers and whole roasted nuts in heavenly milk and dark…

• Best Coffee ShopBeans & Brews

  More than 11,000 Dunkin' Donuts pepper the globe, making it one of the nation's largest coffee house chains. Less than a handful are in Utah. If there's one thing we take pride in, it's our… — Runners-up: Coffee Garden, 3 Cups

• Best Coffee Shop MusicThe Rose Establishment

  The Rose Establishment offers more than just creative foodstuffs, coffee and alcoholic bevs. Depending on who's staffed up, the music is always in interesting rotation. Former manager Cody…

• Best CookiesRuby Snap

  Any which way you toss it—the chocolate-cinnamon Margo, blueberry-lemon Zoe or the seasonal roasted butternut squash—you can't go wrong at Ruby Snap. Serving up the good stuff for more than… — Runners-up: Crumbl, Chip

• Best Dessert BromancePenguin Brothers

  The team at Penguin Brothers has worked tirelessly to perfect cookie ice cream sandwiches that are worth naming after some of our greatest cultural icons. You can't really go wrong if you…

• Best Dessert That Looks Like an EntréeOma & Opa's Spaghettieis

  Found in Germany and at Provo's Farmers Market, Oma and Opa's Spaghetti Ice Cream is a delectable frozen treat with strawberry "marinara" sauce and noodles made of delicious vanilla ice…

• Best DessertsGourmandise

  Gourmandise's spectacular showcase has patrons salivating like Augustus Gloop when he laid his eyes on Willy Wonka's chocolate river. "This stuff is fabulous ... I need a bucket to drink it… — Runners-up: Fillings & Emulsions, Last Course

• Best DIY Tea PartyShahrazad Market and Restaurant

  This humble Middle Eastern market has a restaurant in the back, serving up a wonderful range of Arabic, Somali and Iranian dishes. But Shahrazad's grocery selection is just as enticing…

• Best Donut EnticementFry Me to the Moon Food Truck

  When you're talking about the comforting appeal of fried food, it isn't hard to get people interested. Fry Me to the Moon presents fried delights from corn dogs to loaded French fries, but…

• Best DoughnutsBanbury Cross

  Cake, glazed, frosted and sprinkled—any which way you toss 'em, Banbury Cross has perfected them and offered them to the sweet-toothed masses since 1986. Whether you're visiting the store… — Runners-up: The Big O Doughnuts, Daylight Donuts

• Best Lost Piece of SLC LoreHobbitville

  It was one of those only-in-SLC places. Down to its "Hobbitville" moniker, Allen Park was enveloped in mystery since its creation back in the 1930s. It was a place where Tolkien-approved…

• Best Microwaveable BakeryKodiak Cups

  Park City-based Kodiak Cakes serves up a wide range of baking mixes, oatmeal packets and crackers packed with whole grains and protein. But if you want something to give an extra boost to…

• Best Middle Eastern BakeryKarim Bakery

  Along with bags of freshly-baked flatbread, cases full of baklava and shawarma wraps and takeaway containers of homemade hummus and baba ghanoush, Karim Bakery also boasts the pastry…

• Best New DessertJala Ice Cream Sundae at Afghan Kitchen

  The food at Afghan Kitchen is scrumptious. That isn't much of a secret anymore. Whether it's the chicken korma, the lamb shank kabuli, or the Afghan shami kabob, the owners of the joint on…

• Best People to Pierce All the Body PartsThe Folks of Abyss

  Body modification of all sorts can be simultaneously terrifying and exhilarating. Everyone's heard the horror stories of body art gone wrong, so that's why you need to trust me on this…

• Best Pie, Meat CategorySagato Bakery

  This Midvale bakery takes its inspiration from a combination of New Zealand, Australian and Polynesian cuisine, and it's awesome. I can't avoid picking up one of their lamington cakes when…

• Best Pie, Sweet CategoryTradition

  Much like pizza, breakfast burritos and poutine, it's hard to make cherry pie taste bad. But that blessing can also be a curse—it's just as hard to make a cherry pie stand out from its…

• Best PiercerEnso's Dustin Robbins

  Dustin Robbins, owner of Enso Piercing + Adornment, has been piercing the good people of SLC for over 20 years. Robbins builds relationships with each client and creates a clean… — Runners-up: Courtney Marriott—Abyss, Patrick Bogdanich—Koi

• Best Piercing StudioIris

  Getting a new piercing can be intimidating—but with the right studio behind you, it's cake. Iris' piercing studio is a treat because it also doubles as a jewelry gallery. It's full of… — Runners-up: Enso, Koi

• Best Place for Strolling Troubadours and Steamy BathsMystic Hot Springs

  Off the beaten path in the tiny town of Monroe, travelers can find a funky oasis in the desert. Sink into a vintage tub swathed in overgrown rock formations while watching a sunset or a…

• Best Spa to Treat Yo SelfThe Kura Door

  After the thorough and painstaking research of trying multiple spas in the Salt Lake Valley, I've concluded that no place pampers like The Kura Door. The second you slip off your shoes, and…

• Best Sweet SpotMaven District

  While the plant-based French bakery Passion Flour (passionflourslc.com) might have gotten there first, the Maven District has blossomed to include brick-and-mortar stores for Chip Cookies…

• Best Tea PartyThe Grand America Hotel

  During the afternoon, the lobby of the Grand America Hotel is transformed into a social occasion right out of a regency drama. Layered serving dishes of cucumber sandwiches and other finger…

• Best Tiki Room-Approved TreatDole Whip at Tracy Aviary

  Call me a stickler for nostalgia, but the Enchanted Tiki Room remains one of my favorite Disneyland attractions. Overseen by Uncle Walt himself, the South Seas musical romp became the…