Downtown Alliance - Salt Lake City, Utah

February 24, 2010
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Downtown Farmers Market and cuisine community receive various awards at Salt Lake Magazine's 2010 Dining Awards

Salt Lake City - The Downtown Farmers Market received the Food and Wine Education Award from Salt Lake Magazine at the annual Dining Awards ceremony, held February 23.

"I am honored to accept this award on behalf of the Downtown Farmers Market," said Kim Angeli-Selin, director of the Farmers Market. "I thank our hardworking staff, more than 200 dedicated vendors and the thousands of shoppers that support local vendors at the weekly Farmers Market. As food educators, our message is simple—buy fresh, buy local and hug a farmer today."

The Downtown Alliance congratulates the many downtown dining establishments and people who received various Dining Awards from this year's panel of professional and amateur foodies. "Downtown Salt Lake is on the rise and our urban restaurant community has never been more diverse or more dynamic," said Jason Mathis, executive director of the Downtown Alliance. "We applaud the Dining Award winners located downtown and in other parts of the state for their commitment to excellence."

Downtown award winners:

Best Chef:
Nathan Powers, Bambara
 

Best Restaurant:
Bambara

Best Chinese Restaurant:
J. Wong's Asian Bistro

Best Neighborhood Restaurant:
Tin Angel Café

Best Japanese Restaurant:
Naked Fish

Best Brewpub:
Squatters Pub Brewery

Best Indian Restaurant:
Himalayan Kitchen

Best Comfort Food:
Bay Leaf Café

Hall of Fame:
Takashi

Lifetime Achievement Award:
Valter Nassi, Cucina Toscana

Server of the Year:
Jimmy Santangelo, Donovan's

Catholic Community Services received the Community Service Award. Through a multitude of programs, including handing out daily simple, nutritious sack lunches and serving hundreds of hot lunches to the poor and homeless, CCS aims to accomplish the most fundamental of human services: feed the people.

Salt Lake Magazine's Criteria

Salt Lake magazine gave its first dining awards in 1996. The idea is to recognize Utah restaurants in the interest of fostering, encouraging and rewarding excellence in all areas of the restaurant business. The dining awards are not based on any kind of scoring system but on an evaluation of how well a restaurant or chef exemplifies a category. Winners are determined by an awards panel of professional and amateur foodies. The panel takes into consideration a number of factors when determining winners. These include excellence and consistency in the area for which a restaurant is nominated; the current status of a restaurant (does it have a new chef, new ownership, etc.) and the overall quality of a restaurant in all aspects: food, of course, but also service and value, as well as décor, ambiance and universal accessibility. – Salt Lake Magazine

 

^{The Downtown Alliance is dedicated to building a dynamic and diverse community that is the regional center for culture, commerce and entertainment. For more information, visit downtownslc.org.}

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