Salt Lake City

Pros: Beautiful buildings, The Temple Square, Clean, Scenery, Winter sports, Nearby Nature.
Cons: None

A couple of weeks ago I spent one week in Salt Lake City, Utah. My company sent me there to get training on a few software applications called AutoMod, AutoStat, and AutoView. In addition to educating myself I took the opportunity to visit Salt Lake City ...

Pros: An oasis in a little city that I like to call Salt Lake.
Cons: No Smoking or Drinking on Temple Square; is that a "con?"

The Olympics are coming to Salt Lake City in February, 2002, and if you happen to be in town before, during, or after the Winter Games, there are many things to see and enjoy in the area of Salt Lake City. I've lived here nearly my whole life, and like...

Pros: history, architecture, educational
Cons: smoggy, horrible parking

Review Topic:  Sights & Attractions

Last time we were out west, we decided to swing through Salt Lake City and see what the Mormons were up to. They’re doing very well, as a matter of fact, as they have been for the last 150...

Pros: Motel 6: predictable quality, good rates; SLC: beautiful mountains, friendly people
Cons: Motel 6: no coffee in room; SLC: Great Salt Lake itself is eerie-looking

Note: This is not intended as a review of Salt Lake City, Utah, but rather of a nice place to stay if you're traveling THROUGH Salt Lake City. It is essentially a continuation of a previous review about a Motel Disaster in Reno on a road trip from...

Pros: excellent food, service, ambiance
Cons: sometimes noisy and crowded

Have you ever heard of 7’4” chocolate cake? Did you even know there was such a thing? Tuscany is an Italian restaurant in Salt Lake City, owned by former Utah Jazz basketball player Mark Eaton. Believe it or not, one of the delectable items...

Pros: Great food, great food and . . . did I mention the great food?
Cons: Can be really loud on weekends

I eat out often for work. I am constantly taking clients to dinner and getting tired of restaurants just as often. I can’t eat at some of my favorite restaurants anymore simply because of overexposure.

Luckily for me, a Rodizio Grill opened...

Pros: Largest collection of genealogical records in the world
Cons: Sometimes it takes awhile to find that needle in the haystack

Several years ago, YentaKvetch found herself in Salt Lake City on a home exchange. After several days of schlepping around to scenery and white water rafting, YentaKvetch told SonKvetch that he was going to the public pool for a few hours while...

Pros: Nice place to visit, good weather, interesting feel to the city.
Cons: A little boring downtown, and a rental vehicle is needed to go many places.

Every year the National Forensic League holds a national tournament with students from across the United States. The National Forensic League consists of debaters, orators, congressmen and women, and other speaking high school students from across the ...

Pros: The grid system makes finding addresses easy, if you understand it.
Cons: Pre-Olympic construction and the infamous inversion effect.

Pre-Olympic construction has many Salt Lake City visitors pulling their hair out as they try to follow their turn-by-turn driving directions from place to place only to discover that all of the streets mentioned are closed or jammed due to roadwork. For...

Pros: Great outdoors activities, beautiful landscapes, not terribly crowded...yet
Cons: Orin Hatch, need I say more?

Well, the world’s eyes are going to be on Salt Lake City in February. All the cheating, lying, and shady business dealings have paid off, we got the Olympics and now we're going to show the world how great Salt Lake City is. The only problem, will the...

Pros: It's getting closer!
Cons: Hmmm...it's getting closer.

Yup, the Winter Olympics are just around the corner and here are a few last minute updates. First, the price for the Shuttle that will run you between events (you didn't think it'd be FREE, did you), has dropped from $30, to $20...and as of last week,...

Pros: Elegant Decor, Pretty Good Food
Cons: Bad Service (For Me)

The Roof is one of the most elegant buffets I have ever been to! The name of the restaurant (The Roof) implies where this restaurant is located: It is located on the roof (sorry for being so redundant!) of the Joseph Smith Memorial (JSM)...

Pros: Entertainment, environment
Cons: Mediocre food, no reservations

When I say Disneyland-style dining, that’s exactly what I mean: fun atmosphere, entertainment and over-priced, mediocre food.

The Mayan is a new restaurant in Sandy (15-20 minutes South of Salt Lake City). Connected to the freshly constructed...

Pros: Flavorful entrées, chic but comfortable atmosphere
Cons: You should know what to order

When I found out that P.F. Chang’s China Bistro is a chain, I was more than a little surprised. It sure doesn’t taste like chain restaurant food. In fact, I'm not sure I really believe it is a chain. P.F. Chang’s only recently opened in...

Pros: Clean, friendly, and picturesque, Salt Lake City has an interesting past.
Cons: Cultural differences may alienate outsiders.

Not to long ago, some friends of mine from Calgary took a trip to my home state of Utah for a relative's wedding. Unfortunately, I only found out that they were heading to Utah only hours before they left, and when they got back, they told me they were...