Park City Life July August 2015

The

Best of Park City

The Best of Life at Altitude

Trails czar Charlie Sturgis is part of the reason Park City is one of the best places to mountain bike in the country.

ParkCitYLIFE Utah’s High Country

The People, Culture and Attitude

contents 107 high profile Kitty Abdalla brings a new spa and wellness center to Main & SKY

108 5 questions Mountain Trails Foundation’s executive director Charlie Sturgis answers questions about the city’s famous bike trails

110 arts & entertainment What it takes to be a Kimball Arts Festival artist, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy joins the Utah Symphony in Deer Valley, and an art gallery for locals by locals

115 FACES Olympic couple Erik Schlopy and Summer Sanders, plus ski and bike photographer Ross Downard and other locals you should know

119 What’s Up The Best of Park City: arts, fashion, dining and more

126 Home

128 on the town Photos from local galas, festivals and more

The 2014 Stroll of Park City, one event in the Park City Food & Wine Classic series.

Park City Food & Wine Festival three days of wine pairings / Mary Brown Malouf

132 play date Taking the Mid-Mountain Trail to Silver Star Café

134 Dining Riverhorse thrives on keeping its traditions, and why you should try HiMountain Drug’s burger

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Ride bikes and taste wine, go fishing and taste wine, play golf and taste wine—pairings at the 11th Annual Park City Food & Wine Classic go beyond food and beverage. Many of the seminars and events at the three-day festival celebrate the area’s mountain scenery while bringing together more than 100 food artisans,

wineries, breweries, distilleries, epicurean purveyors and locally made products. Activities include food and wine tastings, seminars and cooking demonstrations, plus the famous Main Street Stroll and the Grand Tasting. June 10­–12.

To learn more, visit parkcityfoodandwineclassic.com.

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Best Giveaway If your favorite PC event, dish, business or person didn’t make it in our inaugural Best of Park City list (page 119), let us know on Facebook for a chance to win a $50 gift certificate to the Egyptian Theatre.

Raise Your Glass Drink wine and say “cheese.” Our photographer will snap photos of guests at this year’s Park City Food & Wine Classic Stroll of Park City (page 102) for our website and On the Town section.

Dining Guide Eating out? Search for Park City’s best restaurants on our online dining guide.

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ParkCitYLIFE / Feedback

Editor’s note: This reader didn’t appreciate editor Glen Warchol’s changes to Vanessa ­Conabee’s “Darkness Into Light” (Jan/Feb 2015), which covered litigation between Vail Resorts and Talisker Land Holdings, LCC, over Park City Mountain Resort and other changes at Park City’s ski resorts.

Having read many of Vanessa Conabee’s articles in this magazine, I was sadly appalled with the manner in which “Darkness Into Light” was presented.

This issue has affected the tourist community and the full-time residents of this community with uncertainty in an ­extremely negative way, which hopefully is headed towards a positive outcome.

It does not help this goal by publishing comments which could continue this negativity.

Please see the enclosed article wherein words and phrases such as “ugly,” “vindictive bullheadedness,” “cataclysm that was triggered,” “somehow forgot,” “nasty,” and “absentminded” could have been

­ liminated and the point (which we all have e perceived by now) would still have been made in a positive manner.

Those of us who live and work here would like to see a positive outcome of the whole issue for everyone without further inciting negative conflict. We get enough of that via politics.

Thank you for your consideration of the reading of my opinion.

—Arla E. Baragar When reading the latest issue of Salt Lake magazine [Park City Life, May/June 2015], I was thrilled to see the article on Muffy Davis in your Park City “Faces” section. The National Ability Center is proud of her for pushing the boundaries of perceived barriers in sport, and exemplifying success through dedication with her six Paralympic medals— three silver at the 2002 Winter Paralympic Games and three gold at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London. Muffy is a model to the many adaptive athletes who train with National Ability Center. Regardless

if individuals have Paralympic aspirations, throughout the year, we work with hundreds of children, families, adults and military personnel of all abilities to achieve their individual goals, whatever they might be. We feel everyone who visits our center, whether they live locally or across the country, enriches the fabric of our wonderfully accessible state.

Here at National Ability Center, we are proud to focus on the abilities in all of us.

—Jess Roising, Competition and Programmatic Events Manager, National Ability Center Write Us Give us feedback on this issue, and help us improve our next.

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ParkCitYLIFE / Editor’s Letter The Best of Life at Altitude

Discover the Best

Make “Best of Park City” your bucket list for the year.

Ah, summer in Park City.

After a long winter, this glorious stretch of warm weather drives us into a fever pitch: days packed with work, post-work activities and dinner, generally grilling with friends or picnicking at one of a number of nightly outdoor concert venues (see Tony Gill’s article on the Utah Symphony’s concert with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy in Deer Valley, ­ p. 110). The fact that it’s possible to work eight hours and still find time for hiking, biking, a short game of golf or a session of stand-up paddle boarding is a testament both to the brevity of the season and quality of extended daylight. Suddenly, we have that extra hour or three (when it doesn’t get dark until 10) and people we haven’t seen all winter are cropping up everywhere—on the trails, at concerts or perusing the goods at the farmers market.

This issue contains the first “Best of Park City,” an homage to a few of our favorite things, and we invite you to gather your friends and try them all, if you haven’t already. Part of what makes these bests compelling are their stories—what it was that drove these handful of chefs, musicians, business owners and artists to create and continue with their passions in the first place. Who knew that Windy Ridge’s $27 family take-out menu was born from Bill White’s desire to provide a healthy meal for a family of four for roughly the same price as McDonald’s, or that The Mine Bouldering Gym offers yoga classes, along with 4,000 square feet of climbing walls (p. 119)?

The next time you find yourself intrigued by something spectacular in Park City, take a moment to seek out its story. People generally want to share their knowledge, and hearing anyone talk about what they love is as entertaining as it is inspiring.

In that vein, don’t miss a chance to learn about the selection process behind the artists invited to the Kimball Arts Festival (p. 110) or the comprehensive wellness center Kitty Abdalla has created at Main&SKY (p. 107). We enjoyed putting this issue together, and hope you won’t hesitate to send along your favorite “Best of Park City” ideas—it’s never too early to start collecting items for the next list!

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ParkCitYLIFE / High Profile

The SKY’s the Limit

Kitty abdalla brings wellness to main street.

by Vanessa Conabbee

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The Abdall a name has fueled rumors and driven conversation since 2011, when Los Angeles couple Ken and Kitty began purchasing landmark properties along Main Street.

When news of the sales went public—the most dramatic shift of Main Street property ownership in the last decade— speculation about the Abdallas, who are former investment bankers from Southern California, ran rampant: How did they earn their money? What were their nationalities? Where did they really live and what were their intentions with their Main Street real estate purchases?

“I’ve always used my maiden name, Kitty Stoneburner, so when we first moved to town, I would overhear people talking about the ‘Saudis’ buying property and I didn’t even realize they meant Ken and me,” Kitty explains. “Ken is from San Francisco and his family is second-generation Lebanese and Japanese. He is gregarious, but he is also a private person. He was always very up front about his plans. That may have been what turned people against him in the beginning—because he was very open about what he thought needed to be done, and people disagreed with his vision of increasing real estate values.”

After spending vacations at their Deer Crest home, the couple saw an opportunity to develop properties they felt were underused, blending the desire to provide upscale lodging with Kitty’s vision to create a wellness center and retreat focused on alternative healing.

A small town girl from Ohio, Kitty studied in France and applied to an international business program, which led to work in Japan and a position at Solomon Brothers.

Park City makes it truly possible to put health and happiness on the front burner every day.

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–Kitty Abdalla

After suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome and returning from Japan with multiple illnesses, she turned to homeopathic medicine for relief. “I spent time at the Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic, and the medications I took completely ruined my immune system,” Kitty says. “Nothing anyone prescribed truly cured me, and it was actually a homeopath that provided the most successful healing.” She later enrolled in the American University of Complementary Medicine.

“After three weeks of classes, I never went to the ER again. I learned to identify my children’s symptoms and treat them myself through a number of basic remedies.”

At Main & SKY, Kitty is building the interactive health center she envisioned, creating a space that functions as both a spa and wellness center, where guests can choose from à la carte services or stay for a week or weekend for entire wellness programs. Kitty’s Sugati Spa & Wellness offers a full service menu of esthetics, massage, energy work, body therapies, ayurvedic therapies, far-infrared saunas, and traditional Japanese soaking tubs. Of particular note are programs in cleansing. Her Sugar House business, Just Organic Juice, produces 19 cold pressed juices to fill standing orders for the guests of the hotel, its restaurant, Tavern, and Sugati.

As the wellness center continues to evolve, Kitty draws from a local network of health care providers; one day she hopes to have a naturopath, a chiropractor, a life coach and an acupuncturist in house. This summer, Main & SKY will host practitioners speaking on various topics every Thursday evening and wellness luncheons and yoga events on Fridays.

For now, Kitty seems to have achieved that rare balance of business and pleasure, dividing her time between the emerging wellness center and Park City’s trails and mountains.

“Park City makes it truly possible to put health and happiness on the front burner every day,” she says, “which is why I hope to create a wellness institution and community center that amplifies that effect.”

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PARKCITYLIFE / 5 Questions 1 WHAT IS THE BACKSTORY BEHIND WHITE PINE TOURING?

CS: A lot of people think I started White Pine Touring, but it was really a couple of guys who lived in tepees up in White Pine Canyon back in 1972 that rented skis in the old Park West parking lot from the back of their van. There was a nordic track that went from where the cabriolet is now right up the canyon; it was steep and fast and really hard. When the opportunity came up in 1985 to own a turn-key business and ski in Park City, it seemed like a pretty good idea.

2 WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO PARK CITY?

CS: I’ve always been athletic. I grew up in Chicago playing tennis, and even played in college, but I guess you could say the landmark experience happened in 1984 when I came out and skied Snowbird during a pretty significant blizzard. Up until then I thought I was a pretty good skier. I remember standing at the top of the tram and looking out into all of that snow and thinking, wow, I’m really not prepared for this. It was wild. After that I moved here.

3 WHAT IS YOUR DREAM PROJECT?

CS: The Great Western Trail starts in Texas and runs along the Wasatch Front. There’s about 100 miles I’d really love to see become a ride-through. A bunch of guys from White Pine did it. It could be the Kokopelli Trail (from Loma, Colorado, to Moab) of the North. You could make it a ride through with credit card hotel stops to support it.

4 WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE TRAIL IN PC?

CS: Out of the thousands of miles of trails here, I have to say the Crescent Mine Grade up to Keystone and Shadow Lake.

WILD RIDE CHECKPOINT WITH MOUNTAIN SPORTS ENTHUSIAST CHARLIE STURGIS

by Vanessa Conabee

CATCHING UP with Charlie Sturgis, former owner of White Pine Touring and executive director of the Mountain Trails Foundation, is no small feat, as he’s more than likely out of the office—promoting, building or maintaining trails. A familiar face around town, Sturgis can be found skiing, mountain biking or rock climbing (his favorite sport) on his days off. Integral to helping Park City attain IMBA’s only Gold Level Ride Center designation, Sturgis’ hand (and footprint) figures prominently in the area’s nearly 1,000 miles of non-motorized trails.

5 WHAT IS MOUNTAIN TRAILS FOCUSED ON IN THE NEAR FUTURE?

CS: This year we want to complete the WOW Trail (Wasatch Over Wasatch), a nonmotorized trail from Pine Tree Campground in Wasatch State Park, up and over Pine Canyon, back down Dutch Canyon to the Dutch Canyon Draw, and back across the ridge to Pine Canyon. We’ll also be doing major rehab on Spiro Trail. Vail Resorts has given us a significant grant to provide rehab for a number of trails.

For more information on Park City trails, visit mountaintrails.org.

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Keeping it in the Neighborhood

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It’s not uncommon for Summit County locals to feel as though they are unwelcome in Park City.

That can be especially true in the art community. Park City’s Main Street is lined with galleries, but many emphasize work from other places. “There have always been a lot of art galleries in Park City, but I didn’t feel there was a lot of local art happening there,” says Katie Stellpflug, an artist who was selling her artwork at street fairs when she and a couple friends decided to open their own gallery. “We wanted to create a place that catered to artists who wanted to show for the first time and could be a stepping stone to help them break into the art world,” she says.

Artique is the result of their efforts.

The gallery—originally named Starving Artist Exchange when it opened in 2011—is a co-op in Kamas that Stellpflug has been shepherding on her own since her two collaborators parted ways with the venture in 2013.

“Artique is artist run. The business model is a co-op, but we don’t have co-op fees. Every artist puts time in at the store each month, meaning everyone plays a big part in running it,” ­Stellpflug says. New local artists regularly contribute to the gallery. Many are connected with Stellpflug through word of mouth, but others simply show up at Artique and introduce themselves as artists. Of course Stellpflug’s work, which is primarily ceramics, also features prominently at Artique.

Stellpflug fires her pieces using the Kimball Art Center’s kiln. She worries about the dissipation of Park City’s creative community with the Kimball Art Center’s impending departure from Old Town. But wherever development takes greater Park City in the coming years, the art community will always find home at Artique, she says. “To grow and become something in a small town off the beaten path is a challenge, but I want to keep growing the local art community in Summit County.”

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Summit County artists find a local home at Artique / Tony Gill

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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy brings Big Band Swing to Deer Valley / Tony Gill Anyone familiar with the life-changing (for this author at least) 1990s comedy S ­ wingers will remember the scene in which Mike finally pulls his life together while dancing to some phenomenal swing music in a ­Hollywood night club. The band providing the soundtrack for that pivotal turn was Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, a swing revival ensemble hailing from Southern California. The multiplatinum band will bring their rousing musical performance to Deer Valley’s Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater on July 10.

The Utah Symphony takes up annual summer residence at Deer Valley and partners with the lineup of touring performers throughout the season. By joining forces for the show with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Utah Symphony will heighten the big-band sound that Voodoo delivers with its unique fusion of swing, jazz and Dixieland music—­classics like “Go Daddy-O” and “You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby).”

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is a prolific touring band that regularly plays more than 150 shows a year. Their high-energy interpretation of 1940s- and ’50s-style swing often has audiences searching for more space to dance and get their groove on, so expect the lawn at Deer Valley to be hopping.

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Making the Grade It’s not easy to get into the Kimball Arts Festival / Tony Gill

Each summer, a colossal horde with a serious hankering for art jams Main Street, meandering through the tents, exhibitions and displays at the Kimball Arts Festival. It’s Park City’s most anticipated arts event for thousands of art enthusiasts, who may wonder how the show is juried.

“We always cycle in new artists, but it happens naturally,” explains Kimball Arts Center events director, Hannah Palmer.

“We don’t give any preference to returning artists, other than those who were awarded Best in Show from the previous year.”

The field of applicants for the 2015 festival is the largest ever, with more than 900 artists vying for some 200 spots in the show. Artists travel to Park City from around the country, which leads to a mixture of backgrounds and artistic styles.

Twelve disciplines are represented, but unless artists have been selected as the top in their respective categories, they aren’t guaranteed a spot the following year.

The selection method is a blind jury process, in which no information about the art or artist is given to jury members. Quality of work, based upon five provided images, is the only criterion considered. “It’s a completely new jury every year, so we get a variety of opinions. That way we don’t just get what certain people like year after year,” Palmer says.

Jurors represent a cross section of the arts community, including local and national collectors, museum professionals, college professors, art commissioners and working artists.

“The balance brings nice variety within the categories. We want pieces that are artistically interesting, but also that people want to buy,” she says. The festival also includes live music, dance space, kid-friendly activities and beer gardens. Something for everyone.

Park City Kimball Arts Festival will be held on Main Street, July 31–Aug 2.

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Watch The World’s Best Cyclists Battle Mountains and Main Street Tony Gill

The Tour of Utah is returning to Park City for the race’s final stage on Aug. 9. The race will begin and end on Main Street, and in between riders will tackle an utterly absurd 7,806 feet of elevation change.

There is, after all, a reason the Tour of Utah is known as “America’s Toughest Stage Race.” With 13 pro cycling teams competing, including the UCI fifth-ranked BMC Racing Team, and a stacked roster of riders like two-time defending champion Tom Danielson and U.S. Time Trial National Champion Taylor Phinney, this is your chance to get up close and personal with some of the best cyclists in the world.

While the riders are off sweating their way up and down Utah’s mountain passes, spectators will get to enjoy live video boards, beer gardens and food up and down Main Street. Even if you can’t make it out for Sunday’s finale, you’ll have plenty of chances to catch the Tour of Utah’s action and see just how much faster the pros are than the rest of us. Prior stages cover Logan, Salt Lake City, Heber, Ogden and Antelope Island starting on August 3. Visit tourofutah.com to see the full route.

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Ross Downard Now Recruiting for the Ranks / By Tony Gill

Someone with a better job than the rest of us once said, “If you love your job, you’ll never work a day in your life.” Lots of people in Park City feel as though they live by that mantra, but few adhere to it as successfully as Ross Downard. Downard is a photographer specializing in skiing and biking whose work has been showcased in numerous publications like Powder, Bike and Park City Life (see Aug. 2014) magazines. When he’s not behind the lens, he’s tearing down the sides of mountains himself. It’s a lifestyle that was the genesis for Downard’s other business, Mtn Ranks. “We created a brand to celebrate all the seasons and all the things we do in the mountains,” says Downard. In addition to producing lifestyle and technical clothing, Mtn Ranks hosts mountain biking shuttle days throughout the summer for riders of all levels to help them make connections in the community.

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Adam Ross Farm to Table Devotee / BY Tony Gill

“I try to put out really honest food that tastes good and isn’t covered with a bunch of bullshit just to make it look pretty,” Adam Ross says. The chef at Main Street’s Bistro 412, Ross is committed to producing everything he can in house, with locally sourced ingredients. Every sauce is made using a reduction. Pork from Tooele’s ­Ballard Farms undergoes a threeweek process to become bacon before it adorns your bison burger. It’s all part of a practice Ross learned while working at a small restaurant and hotel on an eight-acre farm near Wales, New York. “Ninety percent of the produce came from our farm. We changed the menu every day. I took a lot of influence from that,” he says. Ross has brought that inspiration to Park City, where he’s lived for the past eight years. “I had to choose between a big city or a tourist town to be successful. I’ve always hung out in the mountains, so it was a pretty easy choice.”

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A Cut Above / BY Tony Gill

Philip Grubisa has some serious culinary credentials to back his endeavors. After completing culinary school in 2003, Grubisa traveled throughout the country working as a chef, during which time he trained to be a master butcher at Napa’s famed Fatted Calf, an award-winning charcuterie and butcher shop.

These days, Grubisa helms his own operation at Beltex Meats. “We strive to use local products first. We have great relationships with farmers and ranchers in the area, which allow us to watch the process from start to finish,” Grubisa explains. A retail store in Salt Lake City is under construction, and in the meantime you can sign up for a summer meat share with Beltex. Members will receive 10 lbs. of locally sourced meat each month, which comes with suggestions for preparation and are available for pickup at the Park Silly Sunday Market.

435-655-1608, beltexmeats.com

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Summer Sanders and Erik Schlopy Swim and Ski / BY Tony Gill

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Keeping a roof over your head / by Tony Gill

Rhoda Stauffer found a home in Park City making sure people can find homes as the city’s Housing Specialist.

Stauffer’s work couldn’t have come at a more crucial time, because affordable housing has quickly emerged as a top priority in town. Stauffer’s position is her first with local government. “Innovation is really encouraged, trying to find new ways of dealing with old problems,” she says. Stauffer cut her teeth on housing policy while working for nonprofits in Washington D.C., but she’s happy to be living the Park City lifestyle these days. “We educated folks on the hill about needs around the country and assisted nonprofits in building and managing affordable housing. Now I’m a typical Parkite. I’ve got a sweet dog that gets to come to work with me.”

Need a home? 435-615-5152, rhoda.stauffer@parkcity.org

Few, if any, places on earth can match Park City’s density of athletically accomplished residents. The phenomenon is magnified inside the household of Summer Sanders and Erik Schlopy, where you can’t throw a stick without hitting an Olympian. Sanders won four Olympic swimming medals, including two gold, in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, and Schlopy was an Olympic alpine ski racer in 1994, 2002 and 2006, and was recently inducted into the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame. The couple met in 2003 on a blind date at a Ski Ball in New York City, and it wasn’t until Schlopy proposed that Sanders joined him in Park City.

“We love the fact that we are up in the mountains, but we are only 30 minutes from the airport,” Schlopy says. It’s an arrangement that works particularly well for Sanders who regularly flies to New York to participate as a host on We Need to Talk, the first nationally televised all-female sports show. “It’s great. I get a slice of city life peppered into my month,” Sanders says. Schlopy works in real estate with Sotheby’s as part of a family business called Team Schlopy. “My parents have had a lot of success with it, and I love getting to work with my mom, dad and brother-in-law every day,” Schlopy explains. With their superlative athletic careers behind them, Sanders and Schlopy are now committed to helping their children Skye and Spider achieve their dreams. “If you ask them their favorite sports, they’ll say ‘gymnastics and karate,’” Sanders says. “But they’ll add ‘also skiing and swimming,’ so they don’t hurt our feelings.” Keep up with Sanders (@summersanders_) and Schlopy (@schlopes) on Twitter.

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From the best slopeside margarita to the best Sundance film venue, these are our top picks for the high country.

Every issue of Park City Life covers “the best of life at altitude,” but in this issue we put local businesses, services, arts and recreation on center stage in the first annual Best of Park City Awards. As editors at our sister publication Salt Lake magazine have done for decades, PCLife editors have selected the stars in five categories. Readers had the chance to weigh in, too—see the final tally of their votes on page 124. Disagree with our picks? Let us know at Editor@ParkCityLifeMag.com to continue the discussion.

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FAMILY Fun Owners Joseph and Sue Anne Kim are always ready with a smile and love to snap photos of patrons for their digital photo screen. Nestled in The Market at Park City, Yodipity is accessible from numerous bike paths. (Use it as a stopping point after biking from McPolin Farm or City Park.) Deck out your favorite flavor with more than 50 toppings running the gamut from fresh lychee to mini gummy bears. Closed Sundays. 1500 Snow Creek Drive.

435-655-2777 Park Silly offers a farmers market, activities and craft vendors.

Yodipity’s Joseph and Sue Anne Kim

Best Concert Series for Families Pack a picnic and your favorite blanket for these free uber family-friendly midweek concerts. Kids dance in front of the stage or toss Frisbees on the lawn while adults catch up and enjoy a meal al fresco. Rain or shine, Wednesday nights through August at Deer Valley’s Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater.

2250 Deer Valley Drive, 6–8 p.m. Leave your dogs at home!

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Best Weekend Activity*

Best New Family Sport

It’s the perfect lazy Park City summer Sunday morning: heading over to the Park Silly Market (bike, bus, or walk from City Park), noshing at booths of gourmet and specialty treats ranging from Bloody Mary’s to Maine lobster rolls while perusing an eclectic bazaar of art, jewelry, and clothing. Group yoga classes, art yards, fencing, hula hooping, dancing, music, fire breathing, metalsmithing and unicycling are just a few of the rubberneck worthy activities going on. Sundays from 10 a.m.–5 p.m., June 7–September 20 on Lower Main Street. *Without snow

Get the best of both worlds on the water in the mountains. Park City Standup Paddling does it all, from tours along the Jordanelle Reservoir or Weber River to classes, clinics, SUP yoga and fitness. Summer rentals available daily include board, paddle and PFD. Don’t forget sunscreen!

801-558-9878, parkcitysup.com

Best Family Outing Thrill-seekers will love Park City Mountain Resort’s Alpine Slide, Alpine Coaster, and ZipRider, while tamer folk can take in a scenic lift ride or round of mini golf. Treat the littles to a ride on the merrygo-round, airplanes or mini train in the Little Miner’s Amusement Park. Snack shack and frozen treats on site. 435-649-8111, parkcitymountain.com

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Best Place to Score a Birthday Present Stuffed to the ceiling with the latest and greatest from Schleich, Playmobil, and Lego, this amazing toy store stocks everything from an eye-popping array of nostalgic candy to catapultwielding elephants and vintage toys like the Slinky. Purchase a velvet pouch of J.W. Allen & Sons nickels (wooden $5 tokens redeemed in store) for that extra special birthday boy or girl and let them pick their own gift. 1675 Redstone Center Dr., 435-575-8697

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Best Source for Wearable Art

Jump-start your body’s ability to heal itself with Chinese herbal medicine, auricular acupressure and acupuncture and electro-mineral lamps at Dr. Ding Hai Chinese Health Clinic and Herbal Store. Dr. Ding Hai’s four principles of healing employ deep breathing, eliminating negative energy, rinsing with warm water and foot soaking. 1910 Prospector Ave., 435-513-3749

Designer Ron S. Butkovich of RSB Designs draws from art and nature to craft unconventional, organic pieces, primarily using the techniques of lost wax and fabrication.

These handcrafted pieces, derived from precious metals and stones, are mini sculptures. 1101 Park Ave., 435-649-4700, rsbdesignsco.com

Best Place to Find the Perfect Pair Well-stocked with the latest styles from Frye, Ugg, Jeffrey Campbell, Seychelles and Hunter, Mary Jane’s specializes in helping their customers find the right fit and look. An added bonus: MJ’s also houses a great selection of women’s apparel and accessories. 613 Main St., 435-645-7463, maryjanesshoes.com

Best Beauty Fix Splendor Beauty Emporium provides the luxury feel of a personal shopping experience without the hassle of a cosmetic counter. With brands like Lalicious, Philosophy, Laura Mercier, Dermologica, Smashbox, Lavanila, Colorescience and more, it opens up a world of possibilities, or provides a great gift for a lucky friend. 1635 W. Redstone Center Dr., 435-575-1800 shopsplendor.com

Best Self-Indulgent Haircut With a contemporary woven tile interior and a sanctuary-like “wash room” (complete with soft lighting, subdued music and a scalp or shoulder massage), a trip to Lunatic Fringe feels like an escape. Complimentary snacks and beverages and iPad minis loaded with 100+ magazines makes waiting under the drier feel like a staycation.

4343 UT-224, #202, 435-658-0298

Best Beauty Feast Nourish your body with organic juices and vegan or gluten-free baked treats, sandwiches, soups and salads at Park City’s only locally owned community market and café. Fairweather Natural Foods offers a variety of local and organic produce, whole food vitamins, herbal remedies and holistic skin care products, for beauty inside and out.

1270 Iron Horse Dr., 435-649-4561

Vanessa Di Palma Wright at Farasha Boutique

Best Spa Treatment Release stress and tension, restore energy, and strengthen concentration with a rejuvenating Bindi Beauty Treatment at Waldorf Astoria Spa. The warm herb exfoliation combined with a Dasha Oil massage and finished with a cocoon wrap allows the body to detoxify and stimulates circulation. Float, rather than walk, back into regular life. $230 for 75 minutes.

2100 Frostwood Dr., 435-647-5555, parkcitywaldorfastoria.com

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Jen Rattray at Fairweather Natural Foods

Visit the showroom at Farasha Boutique for the latest unique designers scouted from the U.S. and around the globe, then consult with owner Vanessa Di Palma Wright for personalized services, such as wardrobe editing and revamping, styling and full production photoshoots. 605 Main St.,435-649-3123, farashastyle.com ParkCityLife J u ly / a u g 2 0 1 5

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Get OutdoorS Thousand Peaks Snowmobile Adventures delivers incredibly consistent snow thanks to its high-elevation terrain accessed on 60,000 acres of Utah’s largest private ranch. With that much real estate, brand new snow machines each season and easy access from Park City, there’s a pristine backcountry experience for riders of all levels.

900 Weber Canyon Rd., Oakley, 888-304-7669, thousandpeaks.com

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Best Spectator Event The FIS Freestyle World Cup comes to Deer Valley Resort each winter, bringing with it world-class athletes and an all-world party atmosphere. The World Cup is full of great events, but nothing brings those aforementioned things together like the Dual Moguls finals. Top skiers battle it out under the lights on the imposing mogul course down Champion ski run while a well-­ lubricated swarm of locals and visitors goes bananas for big air and bigger spills. deervalley.com

Best Non-Skiing Winter Thrill Sometimes you just need to hear the distinctive roar of a two-stroke engine and let loose through the mountains.

It’s a pretty safe bet that the folks trusted to tune skis for elite alpine racers can handle the boards upon which the rest of us struggle to french fry down the groomers. Jan’s Rennstall and Wintersteiger technicians are the best in the business, whether you’re looking for a precise edge bevel or simply trying to fill a core shot after some ill-advised early season tree skiing.

In Jans Mountain Outfitter, 1600 Park Avenue, 435-649-1833, jans.com

Best Fly Fishing Expertise Nothing’s more reassuring than a Gone Fishin’ sign on the door of your local fly fishing shop. It’s not as though you’ll frequently turn up to a vacant building at Trout Bum 2, but you can take stock in the fact that the employees you don’t see in the store are out on the river.

When they are in the shop, Trout Bum 2’s experts are armed with firsthand knowledge of what’s happening on the river, so they can point you in the right direction and help put the right fly on the end of your line. 4343 Highway 224, 435-658-1166, troutbum2.com

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Best So-Called Bike Race Park City’s new IMBA gold status (see p.

108) makes it, seriously, one of the best places to bike in the country. But don’t take that too seriously. Consider Tour des Suds mountain bike race. With over 2,700 feet of climbing, it takes some serious legs and lungs to complete.

But the race, which will be held on Sept. 20 this year, is less about fighting lactic acid buildup than it is about wearing crazy costumes, riding bikes and getting weird on the trails with a great group of people. mountaintrails.org/events/tour-des-suds

Best Bike Tune-up When your bicycle starts making noises like a Soviet-era tank, it’s time for a little more TLC than just a dab of chain grease.

Storm Cycles is relatively new in town, but their mechanics have been around the block (and a finicky rear derailleur) more than a few times. They’ll have your bike running smooth in no time. 1680 Ute Blvd., 435-200-9120, stormcycles.net

Best Indoor Fix for the Outdoors Let’s face it: Not every day is sunny, warm and beautiful. But thanks to The Mine Bouldering Gym, that doesn’t mean you’ll be left out in the cold.

Parkites can now get their fix for adventure and get a decent workout even when a monsoon blows through town.

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opportunity to stay active even when your fingers need a rest. 1680 Ute Blvd., 435-655-6463, minebouldering.com

Juan Patterson of Storm Cycles

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The FIS World Cup Moguls at Deer Valley Resort

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Best Main Street Music

When the hullabaloo of Sundance descends on Park City, hype swamps everything, from which artsy film is most obscure to which celebrity wore the most ridiculous fur coat. Sometimes you just need something authentic. The Egyptian Theatre is a beacon amid the Main Street madness. The classic marquee out front signals that this isn’t merely some basement viewing room.

Even if the film is a flop, the Egyptian is always a hit. 328 Main St., 435-6499371, egyptiantheatrecompany.com

It doesn’t matter if you’re a bluegrass fiend, a hip-hop aficionado, an electronic enthusiast, a reggae zealot or a country devotee; there’s one place in Park City you should be keeping tabs on to catch your favorite acts. Park City Live consistently books the top talent in town, and the venue holds just the right number of people for lively yet intimate performances. 427 Main St., 435-649-9123, parkcitylive.net

Perfect for families and the more casual art fans among us, Park City Kimball Arts Festival is something everyone can enjoy regardless of how many art history classes you slept through. Proving that art doesn’t need to be intimidating and exclusive, festival-goers can watch live music on multiple stages or stop into one of several beer gardens for a refreshment while perusing world-class art representing myriad genres up and down Main Street. parkcitykimballartsfestival.org

The Sundance Film Festival’s wild popularity and ever-widening global footprint means it’s harder than ever to get access to the movies people want to see, but the Sundance Institute doesn’t leave Parkites hanging in the warmer months. The Stars Under the Stars film screenings at City Park are free, family-friendly opportunities to view some outstanding independent films.

This summer’s slate includes Racing Extinction on July 10 and Being Evel on August 14. sundance.org

Best Après Ski Experience Après shouldn’t be conflated with highfalutin’ surroundings and convoluted cocktail recipes. The Corner Store Pub & Grill does away with preten-

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tious trappings and excels at the things that matter most: food, beverages and atmosphere. Grab a cheap brew and a basket of waffle fries before checking out the free music on the patio in the springtime. It’s also the place ski patrollers gather after work on Fridays.

Is that enough cred for you? 1325 Lowell Ave., Park City, 435-645-8666

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Kimball Arts Festival: An art stroll writ large.

The Viking Yurt sits at 8,000 feet on the slopes of Park City Mountain Resort, making it an unlikely candidate for an evening of entertainment. Folks need to board a snow cat to get up there, but those who make the trek up for dinner are treated to live performances on a baby grand piano every night of the week. While you can’t just wander in off Main Street, live music, gourmet cuisine and an improbable location mean The Viking Yurt serves up the finest sonic accoutrements.

435-615-9878, vikingyurt.com

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FOOD & Dining Hugo Coffee’s nitrogeninfused cold brew isn’t some drab mug of used motor oil. The cold brew is served from a tap in a beer mug, and the drinking experience it delivers is shockingly reminiscent of a Guinness. Add in Hugo’s panoramic view Hugo of the Olympic Park and Coffee’s nitrogensurrounding hills and infused you’ve got a superlative cold brew cup of joe. 1794 Olympic Pkwy., 435-655-5015, hugo.coffee

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Best Take Out At Windy Ridge Cafe, choose from meatloaf, farfalle primavera, roasted turkey or grilled salmon with salad, bread, veggies and mashed potato sides. Set a nice table and spoon into your own dishes or serve à la carte. Portions are sized for four, but can squeeze five for kids. Allow 20 minutes. Pick-up after 5 p.m. $27.

1250 Iron Horse Dr., 435-647-0880

Best Sushi Roll Sushi Blue chef Adam Compton’s homage to time spent in Lima draws from the Peruvian tiradito, a dish of raw fish in spicy

sauce that reflects the influence of Japanese immigrants on Peruvian cuisine. A cousin to ceviche, tiradito is sliced, not chopped, and washed in lime juice rather than marinated. This lively roll offers refreshing layers of salmon, jalapeño, avocado, and cilantro topped with kanpachi, kiwi salsa and tajin spice. 571 W. Redstone Drive, 435-575-4272

Best DIY Dining Shabu Shabu House offers a hands-on experience that puts the fun back in dining. Gather around a table inset with individual cook pots and create your own Japanese hot pot from a selection of Kobe beef, shrimp, chicken, fish balls, veggies and sauces. Bonus: The meal isn’t finished until your server adds a hearty portion of Udon noodles to your well-seasoned broth.

1612 Ute Blvd., 435-658-9829

Best Slopeside Drink There is something vaguely Bond-esque about ascending in the glass and leather funicular at

St. Regis Deer Valley (or better yet, schussing in) to the ultra swanky bar at the St. Regis. Soothe fatigued muscles and windburned cheeks with the Ginger Margarita, a refreshing blend of sweet and spicy. 2300 Deer Valley Dr., 435-940-5700. Ski in via Deer Valley’s Carpenter Chair.

Best Secret Gourmet Lunch A trip to the hospital usually means you’re having a bad day, but Chef Jason Kieffer is changing that. The Silver King Café in the Park City Medical Center serves up gourmet cuisine at reasonable prices. “We change the menu every day to keep things fresh for guests who come in repeatedly throughout the week,” says Kieffer. “I love coming up with new dishes, and it seems to keep everybody in the community happy.” It’s our pick for lunch, but the Café Chef Jason Kieffer, Silver does breakfast King Café and dinner, too.

900 Round Valley Dr., 435-658-7000

Best of Park City: Readers’ Choice

Park City’s wealth of creative, talented individuals and committed local businesses is second to none. Picking “bests” is bound to be controversial. That’s why we went straight to the experts (that’s you, readers) to help us determine Park City’s favorites, underrated or otherwise. Here’s what you had to say.

Best Driving Range: Park City Municipal Golf Course 1541 Thaynes Canyon Dr., 435-615-5800 Best Fundraiser: Red, White & Snow March 3–5, 2016, redwhiteandsnow.com Best Bartender: Luke Hermie at No Name Saloon (See best bar) Best Fitness Center: PC MARC 1200 Little Kate Rd., 435-615-5400 Best Yoga Studio: THE SHOP 1167 Woodside Ave., 435-649-9339

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Best Pizza: Maxwell’s 1456 Newpark Boulevard, 435-647-0304 Best Place to Watch the Game: Drafts 3000 Canyons Resort Dr., 435-655-2270 Best Breakfast: Squatters Roadhouse Grill 1900 Park Ave., 435-649-9868 Best Bar: No Name Saloon 447 Main St., 435-649-6667 Best Ski Shop: Cole Sport 1615 Park Ave., 435-649-4806

Best Ski Instructor: Andy Van Osdal at Park City Mountain Resort 1345 Lowell Ave., 435-649-8111

Best Barista: Jenna Fleming at Silver King Coffee 1409 Kearns Blvd., 435-214-7759

Best Date Night Dinner: Edge Steakhouse 3000 Canyon Resorts Drive, 435-655-2260

Best Bike Shop: White Pine Touring 1790 Bonanza Dr., 435-649-8710

Best Hiking Trail with Dog: Round Valley Loop

Best Brunch: Glitretind, Stein Eriksen Lodge 7700 Stein Way, 435-645-6455

Best Outdoor Venue for Music: Deer Valley Snow Park Amphitheater 2250 Deer Valley Drive S., 435-649-1000 Best Local Band: (tie) Holy Water Buffalo and Motherlode Canyon Band

Best Patio: Silver Star Cafe 1825 Three Kings Dr., 435-655-3456 Best Margarita: Billy Blanco’s 8208 Gorgoza Pines Rd., 435-575-0846 Best Family Night Out: Jupiter Bowl 1090 Center Dr., 435-658-2695

Best Place to Boogie: Cisero’s 306 Main St., 435-649-5044 Don’t see your pick on the list? Let us know why your favorites should have made it by emailing us at editor@ parkcitylifemag.com.

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Diminutive Digs

Park City residents redefine what it means to live large / Tony Gill

“When you stand on an 18-foot flatbed trailer, it takes a lot of imagination to feel like you could live in it for any amount of time,” Johnson says. “It really makes you focus on everything you have, but once you get in the routine of it, everything becomes normal.”

LaRiviere had a yen to build and live in a tiny house for some time, and she attended a tiny house workshop in Chicago two years prior to beginning construction with Johnson. They bought plans, had a custom trailer built and got to work. LaRiviere spent a good portion of the day at the library researching things like window framing and uses for reclaimed materials before committing her remaining waking hours to actually putting the house together. “It worked out really well, and we were able to come out well under market value,” Johnson explains.

If you plan on following in the footsteps of tiny house pioneers like LaRiviere and Johnson, keep a few things in mind. Unless you’re an experienced carpenter, be prepared for a steep learning curve as the honcho of your construction project. Even when the build is done, expect the unexpected, and be willing to search for creative solutions. “We found out the hard way if you leave wet shoes on the ground during the winter, they’ll be frozen to the floor in the morning,” says Johnson. With a little imagination, you can live large in Park City. Just think small.

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Nestled among the ubiquitous sprawling mansions that blanket the Park City landscape is the home of a couple who have chosen to do things differently. A 136-square-foot house may not sound like much, but for Stu Johnson and Val LaRiviere it’s all about location, location, location.

Left: Stu Johnson and Val LaRiviere’s tiny house stands in contrast to larger homes in Summit County. Above: LaRiviere and Johnson enjoy all 136 square feet of their Park City home.

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1. The Candyland Girls strike a pose at Canyons’ Pond Skimming Contest, where contestants wore costumes and attempted to cross a 100-foot pond on skis or a snowboard.

2. The Alpha Team 3. Cherry, Banana and Pistachio of Allgood Provisions 4. Blake Wiehe as Bud Lightyear 5. Princess Peach 6. The X-Presidents

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PC Bands Sweetheart Gala

St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church, Feb. 13 Photos by Samuel Askins 1. Sally Elliott, Maura Hanrahan and Corrie Forsling smile for our camera at the annual PC Bands gala, featuring live music by the Park City High School Varsity Jazz Ensemble. The event, co-sponsored by the Park City Education Foundation, also included a catered dinner, opportunity drawings, silent auctions and dancing. Funds raised support PC Bands’ efforts to bring a world-class music education to Park City High School.

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Venues throughout Park City, March 3–5 1. Mac and Ann MacQuoid with Katy and Josh Chapel enjoy wine at National Ability Center’s Red, White & Snow, which featured multiple events including Uncorked, an evening at Stein Eriksen Lodge; the Gala Dinner & Auction at Montage Deer Valley; Vintner Dinners at private homes; and an after party at the Vista Lounge at Montage Deer Valley.

2. Red, White & Snow after party 3. Chuck Heath and Hans Feugi with Missy Cowley 4. Judy and Larry Cohen, Jeff and Leslie Fischer, Denise and Greg Landis at the Vintner Dinner 5. Court and Joy Durling, Denise Begue 6. Stacy Pillanti, Kelly Pfaff and Ryan Pfaff at Uncorked 7. Tonya Cumbee, Lisa Ingalls and Lisa Zindel at Wine on the Mountain, Red, White & Snow’s slope-side tasting and après-ski party.

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Happy Trails

Mid Mountain to Spiro, with dinner / Vanessa conabee

You don’t need a destination to enjoy a hike, but a hike with dinner at the end is an event. Hike stylishly—knot a cotton scarf at the throat to lend a jaunty air and mask perspiration—and hike your way to dinner. We prefer a scenic route that starts high, slowly meandering its way downhill. The Mid Mountain Trail from Deer Valley’s Empire Lodge to Spiro accomplishes this goal, with the lovely patio at Silver Star Cafe waiting at the finish.

Getting There: Unless you want to take a cab, leave one car at Silver Star Cafe in the overflow parking located in the lower lots across from the Sundance offices. Then shuttle a second car (or take the free city bus) up to Deer Valley’s Empire Lodge, appreciating the fact that you will be spending the next few hours or so descending this elevation.

Continue around the roundabout in front of Empire Lodge, driving a short distance up to a gravel parking lot on the left below the metal gate. After parking, cross the street to the trailhead to pick up the Mid Mountain Trail (marked with arrows and white and blue signs). Aim to leave by 2 p.m., with adjustments made depending on whether your pace is more tortoise or hare.

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The Hike: This classic route starts high, following a ­ ildflower-laden path through aspen and pine forests with w only a few steep climbs along ridges in between. There are some rocky sections along the way, but most of this terrain traverses through aspen and pine forests offering beautiful views of Park City. Stay on Mid Mountain Trail past the Montage all the way to the top of Spiro Trail. Follow signs for the hiking-only trail to the left (two-thirds down) all the way to the Silver Star Cafe.

Sink into one of the comfortable patio couches with a cold beer or glass of Riesling and indulge in a well-earned meal al fresco.

Time and Travel Tips: This route takes roughly four hours. Pack a light-weight top for cooling temperatures, plenty of water and a few treats of nuts and chocolate for quick energy. Heavier jackets or wraps, along with a change of shirt and shoes, and discreet items such as deodorant or lipstick can be left in the car parked at Silver Star.

Trail Etiquette: Practice Mountain Trails Foundation’s 3 Cs: Clean up after yourself and your pets; Control your speed (bikes and dogs); and remain Considerate. Even if you have the right-of-way, if it’s reasonably easy for you to yield to another, please do so! And when in doubt, always ask for directions, or print out a trail map from mountaintrails.org before you go.

Above: Hiking Mid Mountain Trail from Deer Valley Resort; Left: After the hike, a great meal awaits you at Silver Star Cafe.

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Classics

Return to Riverhorse The Park City perennial / By Mary Brown Malouf

For 27 years, Riverhorse on Main in Park City has been a dining destination. For probably as long, the menu has featured macadamia-crusted halibut—­a dish conceived in the nut-crusted ’80s. Then it was on the cutting edge; now it’s featured in its own box on the menu as a Riverhorse “classic.”

Still, the point is that Riverhorse bucks the conventional wisdom that restaurants have to constantly evolve to stay successful. Riverhorse features a vegetarian menu (macadamiacrusted tofu!) and a bar bites menu (sliders and crab cakes) during happy hour (5–7 p.m. daily). And though the menu rotates frequently, it doesn’t fundamentally change—for the most part it relies on tried-andtrue. Recently we were offered

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a petite filet and a lobster tail as a “surf-and-turf” special; the special salad was a Caesar salad served in a parmesan crisp cup. The big deal appetizer, served to two, actually harkens back to the brief trend of “tall food”—a tiered tray holds Wagyu beef bites, salmon smoked out of house and goat cheese puffs.

There’s a reason to stick with classics—many flavor combinations have worked, do work and will work forever. Can you improve on rare beef, red wine and blue cheese? (Riverhorse’s filet mignon with Maytag blue and cabernet reduction.) Rack of lamb comes with mac and cheese; fried chicken comes with sweet potatoes and sausage gravy; ahi tuna is complemented by flavors of ginger, miso and soy. Certainly many chefs overwork dishes in the quest for originality. Maybe the slightly conservative approach is why for 16 years Riverhorse on Main has been recognized among an elite list of restaurants in the nation as a Four-Star award winner from Forbes Travel Guide. It doesn’t hurt that the front dining room, with its balcony over Main Street, remains one of the most pleasant in Park City.

540 Main St., Park City, 435-649-3536

Counter Cuisine

Hi-Mountain ’s famous burger

As the world moves faster, it’s nice to count on some things to stay the same. Your iPhone will always be a step behind the newest one, your pleather pants are now called vegan leather and the leather ones are stored until PETA disbands, but the burgers and shakes at Hi-Mountain Drug taste the same as they did when you were 12 and pedal-pushers weren’t capri pants yet. This is not a chef-conceived, overloaded burger. It’s not an artisanal burger made from the cow you used to call by name.

It’s not a super cheap fast food travesty. It’s a well-proportioned beef patty on a toasted bun with a manageable ratio of meat to bread, and it comes with all the traditional fixings. That does not include foie gras or Sriracha. This burger doesn’t even have a name. You have to wait for it to be cooked. The milkshake you should order to accompany the burger is not extruded and could never warrant the nickname “concrete.”

The servers are friendly, but they won’t introduce themselves by name or write upsidedown on the countertop.

Enjoy this moment of small-town American timelessness brought to you by Hi-Mountain Drug. 40 N. Main St., Kamas, 435-783-4466

For a complete list of our favorite Park City restaurants, see Salt Lake magazine’s Dining Guide on page 137.

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