We’re shocked….Shocked!
Eating Las Vegas thought all they did up there was get Kool-Aid-ed and cookie’d up whenever a good time was at hand, but as this video shows, there’s some nifty wine to be bought there if you ever decide to cut loose and ignore the preachings of this guy.
Thanks to Greg Thilmont (An Official Friend Of ELV, and now a SLC food-writer-in-residence) for keeping in touch and opening our eyes.
It’s about time too, the new wine store is really first rate. As an SLC resident and many-time-a-year visitor to LV, it wouldn’t look out of place there either! :)
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Stuart
http://www.gastronomicslc.com
Why would a food editor stoop to Religious discrimination? Stick to what you know and try taking the high road instead of trying to be funny.
The Salt Lake Valley needed another fine wine store – this gives it three. It certainly has the most glitz. However, it probably just ties the cottonwood store as a place to visit. I’d personally put it at the bottom of the batch.
The Metro store is small, but it still gets the largest selection of the smallest production, highest allocated wines. Every person who works there knows more that everyone at the other stores put together. The new store has a computer with spiffy software to replace people that know something. However, if I want a case of interesting Spanish wines at a certain price point that I’ll like, the computer program can’t do it. Ron at the Metro store can. I’ve been using him to pick new interesting wines for me for years. He knows my palate and never fails.
The new store is only wine and some speciality very high end liquor. The Metro store also has some realistic liquor — like Bombay Sapphire — level stuff. It has some of the better boxed wines and other things a person needs for daily drinking. The new store has none of these.
The new place provides more style over substance. I’ll stick with the old realiable and let others use the new place.
Travis. You’ll do better sitting back and watching how the rest of the World views things. Getting yourself in a snit doesn’t help you and just gets most everyone else rolling their eyes.
Thanks to all for the posts….even Travis. It’s all in good fun, as MOST of you know!
Travis, ELV’s attempts at humor is part of the package. I can only imagine how The Food Gal (& the rest of ELV’s staff) puts up with all of ELV’s savory verbiage, for which he is known …
Question: Does Settebello, owned by Brad Otton, sell alcoholic beverages at its SLC location?
It has a beer and wine license. It has a small wine list and you cen bring wine for a small corkage fee.
Forget cookies and Kool-aid John, last time I checked, Utah as a whole has the highest ice cream consumption per capita in our fair nation. And that is a party I could handle, as long as I can have my Settebello fix first.