Last fall I wrote my impressions of Big City Soup. It was good then. I have been back several times since then. It is still good. They have figured out how to make soup. But I write today with both trepidation and excitement.
Google just announced a new tool today that let's users create customized maps using their Google Maps product. I've been playing around with, using it to create a custom map that shows all the different places that I write food reviews about. For the small group of readers that end up on this blog, you can now see a map view of all the places I write about.
Interestingly enough, it allows me to edit the tag for each point I put on the map, so not only can you see all the places on the map, but when you click on it, if I have a picture of it that I've taken, that will show up and I've also included a link back to whatever I had to say about it. Some people just learn better using visual tools, so this is for all of you...
...recently opened very close to where I work. I had initially intended to wait several weeks before my first visit. Unfortunately circumstances arose that required me to get a quick lunch one day during their opening week and its convenience factor overrode my intentions.
I walk past it at least twice a day coming to work and going home from work, so I've been watching the progress ever since they put their "Coming Soon" sign up several months ago. Shortly after the first "Coming Soon" sign went up I tried to find out more about it, which was not that easy.
I caught the smell of wood smoke half a block away as I was walking to this new little pizza place in downtown Salt Lake. My visit this week was the result of another walk I had taken on a week or two earlier.
Most afternoons I need some time to get out of my office and stretch my legs out and breath some fresh air. I am usually surprised at how much ground I can cover walking around downtown Salt Lake on a 15 minute break from work. A week or so ago as I was heading home from work, driving past one of my favorite downtown restaurants, Red Rock Brewery, and I noticed a very unassuming new sign painted along the top edge of the brick building immediately south of Red Rock. At the time, being in the car, I couldn't really figure out what it was, but you could see the chairs and tables through the windows.
Several days later, that chance sighting turned my feet in that direction while I was out for a quick walk one afternoon. Walking past, I had one more piece to the puzzle. The name on the sign -- Settebello. Back in my office I did a quick search for Settebello online and could only find a web site for a pizza restaurant outside of Las Vegas in Henderson. No mention of another location, not even a coming soon teaser.
That same evening as my brother drove out of town on our way home, I drove past the place again to show it to him and this time there was a big white banner strung across the trees in front of the restaurant. It was simple and to the point, black letters on a white background proclaiming "Wood-fired Pizza, Now Open." The was all I needed. Wood, fire and pizza all in the same context and I'm sold. That was last week.
