Price: $60/ticket per person (includes a free $50 bike tune!).

Purchase tickets at Cole Sport on Park Ave in Park City. Price does not include alcohol.

Silent Auction begins at 6 p.m. and dinner begins at 7 p.m.

Resort Casual Attire

Sample of Silent Auction items:

> One hour cross country ski lesson from Olympic Gold Medalist Billy Demong
> Edge Composite Wheels (road and mountain)
> Foursome at Tuhaye Golf Club
> Private Dinner and Whiskey Tasting for 10 at High West Distillery
> Weekend stay at Grand Summit Hotel in Park City
> Massages from Align Spa
> Native Eyewear
> Smith Ski Helmet
> Official Ralph Lauren 2010 Olympic Appeal donated by Gold Medalist Bill Demong
> Two nights lodging from Park City Crash Pads with two 30 minute massages
> And much more!

Call 435-901-9119 for more information.

The Park City Area Restaurant Association presented its fifth annual Cocktail Contest April 8. Participating bartenders prepared cocktails for a panel of local judges, and the winning concoction was named the official Park City Signature Cocktail for 2010. The winner was Sky Bar bartender Eddie Schneckloth’s Blue Açaí Sour. Reports from Park City say the Ginger-Lemon Cooler by Deer Valley’s Bonnie Ulmer was also a much-lauded contender.

Fox 13 reports on Wasatch Brew Pub and Squatter’s win at the World Beer Cup.

April 30, 2010 – May 2, 2010

Times: Friday & Saturday, 8pm; Sunday, 6pm

Location: Jim Santy Auditorium, 1255 Park Ave

Phone: 435-615-8291

parkcityfilmseries.com

April 30, 2010

Time: 6 to 9pm

Admission: Free

parkcitygalleryassociation.com

Reservations are recommended for this film. To RSVP, please contact Nell@SwanerEcoCenter.org or call 435.649.1767 ext. 103. The Swaner EcoCenter is located at 1258 Center Drive in Park City, Utah.

Time: 7pm

Location:  Swaner EcoCenter

swanerecocenter.org

By City Weekly Staff

Fox 13’s Hope Woodside (Best TV Anchorwoman) and Sister Dottie S. Dixon (aka actor Charles Frost, Best Utahn) sipping like proper ladies in the Beehive Tea Room (Best Secret Rendezvous): A 13-year Best of Utah winner, a 2010 newcomer and a personal pick from the City Weekly staff.

Twenty-one years in, that’s still how we do it: You vote in around 100 categories (winners denoted by the “Readers’ Choice” star), then City Weekly adds over 300 local favorites of our own. After our distribution team strains their backs and vans delivering this fat issue, we throw a party for all included—this year, with a twist: A handful of “civilian” voters were chosen to attend our Best of Utah bash and hobnob with fabulous local celebrities.

Who says voting never pays off?

Best of Utah 2010: Food & Drink

Best Park City Restaurant

Chimayo
With such a variety of eye-popping eateries, winning the Best Park City Restaurant award is no small feat. But, through the years, Bill White’s Chimayo restaurant has been a shining star of Main Street, blending traditional Southwestern flavors and ingredients with French-American cooking techniques. The result is an award-winning array of dishes like queso fundido, green pipian seared trout fajitas, mustard seed-crusted salmon, and the wildly popular crown roast of barbecued spareribs with chipotle-pineapple glaze. Of course, no meal is complete without the signature Chimayo margarita. 368 Main, Park City, 435-649-6222, ChimayoRestaurant.com

2. High West Distillery
3. Grappa

Best Charcuterie

Spruce
As with Spruce’s sister restaurant in San Francisco, one of the specialties at Park City’s Spruce is the charcuterie, which is cured in-house, antibiotic- and hormone-free. Charcuterie selections are available as individual portions, but to sample the full range of Spruce’s amazing charcuterie, you’re better off ordering the Grand Selection that frequently includes coppa, chorizo, duck rillette, ciccioli, thinly sliced poached veal tongue, duck liver mousse and shaved pig’s ear. It’s all accompanied by toasted bread points and grainy homemade mustard. For lovers of cured meats, Spruce’s charcuterie is the bomb. 2100 Frostwood Drive, Park City, 435-647-5566, SprucePC.com

This week, about this time of day, I start really looking forward to Thursday evening.

The Park City Area Restaurant Association (PCARA) has invited me to help judge their annual mixology event—the Fifth Annual Cocktail Contest. The winner will be deemed Park CIty’s Signature Cocktail for 2010. Bronze medal moguls winner Shannon Bahrke will be another judge. She’ll be the young, fit one.

For last year’s winner, Deer Valley beverage maven Bonnie Ulmer used St. Germain elderflower liqueur; I tasted it at Savor the Summit.

Here’s Shannon:

The event is at Wahso on Main Street. You can’t miss it if you’re looking up.

The $10 door charge goes to benefit the People’s Health Clinic and PCARA will match up to $500.

Arts-Entertainment

Scene clips April 7-9, 2010

The Park City Area Restaurant Association presents the fifth annual Cocktail Contest at Main Street’s Wahso Asian Grill on Thursday, April 8, at 6:30 p.m. Participating bartenders will prepare specialty cocktails for a panel of distinguished local judges and the winning concoction will be named the official Park City Signature Cocktail for 2010. Proceeds from the event will benefit the People’s Health Clinic. Guests must be 21 years or older to attend.

Mixologists meet in Park City for the Park City Area Restaurant Association’s (PCARA) fifth annual Cocktail Contest. Every year, the organization awards one drink as the signature cocktail for Park City.

Libation lovers will be attending this event on Thursday, April 8 at Wahso Asian Grill (577 Main St., Park City) at the event that runs from 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. A $10 donation goes to benefit the People’s Health Clinic (PCARA matches up to $500!) and anyone over 21 is invited to attend.

Here is a look at previous year’s winners and their recipes:

2008 Winner- Kristauf’s Martini Bar’s Crisp Pear
To make your own Crisp Pear Martini, mix up the following:

• 1 oz 350 Vodka
• 1/2 oz Peach Schnapps
• Splash Pineapple Juice
• Float Cook’s Brut Champagne on top

Mix and serve in martini glass.
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2007 Winner -Deer Valley’s Royal Street Cafe’s Blueberry Mojito
To make your own Blueberry Mojito, mix up the following:
• 1 handful mint leaves
• 1 Tsp. granulated sugar
• Quarter wedge of lime
• 1/2 to 3/4 cup lemonade
• 1 oz. light rum
• 2 Tbsp. fresh or frozen blueberries

(1 tblsp smashed to create some juice)
• Splash of soda
• 1/2 oz. dark rum
• Sprig of mint for garnish
• Slice of lime for garnish

Ice In a tall 16oz glass, add mint leaves and sugar. Squeeze juice from the lime wedge into the glass. Mash the ingredients with the back of a spoon or a special wooden “muddler” until the mixture is fragrant. Fill glass with ice. Add lemonade until the glass is 2/3 full. Add splash of soda, then add light rum and blueberries and stir. Slowly pour dark rum into the drink so it floats on top. Garnish with a sprig of mint and lime then serve. Enjoy!
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2006 Winner – 350 Main’s Jupiter Cosmopolitan
To make your own Jupiter Cosmopolitan, mix up the following:
• 1 oz. orange vodka
• ½ oz. Chambord
• ½ oz. pomegranate juice
• ½ oz. orange juice
• ½ oz. straight vodka

Mix and serve in martini glass.

Don’t forget that freedom—and great cocktails—are just over the summit.