City Weekly Best of Utah 2021

Best of Utah 2021: Sips & Sweets

20 reader-voted winners in sips & sweets, from the City Weekly Best of Utah 2021 poll.

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• Best BakeryGourmandise

  While one could wax poetic about Gourmandise's pastries, particularly crowd-favorites like the baba au rum, passion fruit mousse cake and mille feuille, it was a humble shortbread biscuit… — Runners-up: Fillings & Emulsions, Tulie Bakery

• Best Bakery forNight Owls

  Munchie's Most bakeries close up shop before those post-dinner cravings kick in, which is why we're grateful for Munchie's. Their famous brownies, cakes and cinnamon rolls are available…

• Best Charming Candy ShopHatch Family Chocolates

  A true mainstay in our community, Hatch Family Chocolates uses family recipes to deliver the best chocolate in town. Indulge in fun treats like chocolate dinosaurs or opt for adult-friendly…

• Best Coffee ShopBeans & Brews

  There's just something about the java at Beans & Brews. They say their bean-roasting process (which takes place in Utah at 4,400 foot above sea level) gives them "a significant advantage"… — Runners-up: Coffee Garden, Publik Coffee Roaster

• Best CookiesRubySnap Fresh Cookies

  With 20 cookie varieties baked fresh daily, RubySnap is a cookie paradise. Bestsellers like the Mia, a vanilla-bean sugar cookie with buttercream beet frosting, and the Trudy, a traditional… — Runners-up: Crumbl Cookies, Chip Cookies

• Best DessertsPie Fight

  If the last hand pie you had was of the Hostess variety, run—don't walk—to Pie Fight's walk-up window in the 9th and 9th neighborhood. With an ever-changing menu of flavors, you'll want to… — Runners-up: Fillings & Emulsions, Doki Doki

• Best DonutsBanbury Cross

  If you're craving donuts or pastries, Banbury Cross has whatever you're seeking. Choose from fresh flavorful donuts such as cinnamon crumb, maple frosted or chocolate glazed. Other… — Runners-up: Fresh Donuts and Deli, The Big O Doughnuts

• Best Fairy Tale DessertsConte de Fee

  The team at Conte de Fee specializes in creating cakes, confections and other baked goods that appear to have wafted into reality from a beautiful dream. Rainbow cakes that reveal a…

• Best Gluten-Free Spring RollsSOMI Vietnamese Bistro

  It's hard to find a gluten-free spring roll in this city that's not cross-contaminated. SOMI Vietnamese bistro delivers with locally sourced ingredients, to boot. But don't stop there: SOMI…

• Best Pancake SyrupHammer Spring Distillers

  Founded in 2016 by JP and Vita Bernier, this distillery celebrates Rocky Mountain life with small-batch spirits such as their single-barrel, wheated (with a "spicy zip of rye") 94-proof…

• Best Pastry SuperheroesMad Dough

  Once you've had a box of the pillowy, flavor-filled doughnies that have made Mad Dough local pastry superheroes, it's tough to go back to conventional donuts. When you combine owner Mandy…

• Best PiercerDustin Robbins

  There's a huge difference in getting your ears pierced with a hand-held piercing gun at the mall vs. the delicate piercings through your nose septum or nostril, the daith (the cartilage on… — Runners-up: Courtney Marriott, Abyss, Kory Sagendorf, Modified Piercing

• Best Piercing StudioIris Piercing

  This group has studios in Michigan, New York, Oregon, Colorado, Utah and Illinois and are poking their way into more cities as their reputation grows for safe piercings without compromise… — Runners-up: KOI Piercing Studio, Abyss Piercing

• Best Pies forFeasting Anon

  Centro Woodfired Pizzeria How far would you go for pizza? The answer should be approximately 251 miles, assuming you're coming from Salt Lake, because that's how far it is to Centro…

• Best Sharp Piece of ArtNew West Knife Works

  New West Knife Works founder Corey Milligan believes that cooks need the best tools for the job. He previously worked as a line cook in local restaurants and his interest in cutlery came…

• Best Slippery SweetsMeet Fresh

  As much as we love desserts that smack us in the face with sugary goodness, we haven't been able to stop thinking about the bao bing at Meet Fresh. Sweetness takes a back seat to texture…

• Best Sunset StrollOquirrh Lake

  at Daybreak In a time of drought, Oquirrh Lake, a 65-acre, man-made lake located at Daybreak, just below one of the top producing copper mines in the world, provides a truly idyllic setting…

• Best Tea Party to GoHoney Teahive

  Mika Lee appeared on our radar as a writer for Devour Utah, City Weekly's erstwhile foodie magazine. Who knew that even as she interviewed chefs and cooks throughout Utah for the magazine…

• Best Treats to Bake at HomeThe Dough Lady

  Brainstorming flavor ideas together, Amy and Eric Lund launched their baking business over the holidays hoping to sell to family and friends. Today, through the power of social media and…

• Best Use of GelatoDolcetti Gelato's Affogato

  Leave it to the Italians to comingle breakfast and dinner in a single-serving treat. Called affogato, its yin-yang balance depends on the size of a dollop of gelato dissolving in a shot of…