Park City Restaurant Association

City Weekly’s 21st annual roundup of (almost) everything great in Zion.

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