City Weekly Best of Utah 2017

Best of Utah 2017: Sips & Sweets

14 reader-voted winners in sips & sweets, from the City Weekly Best of Utah 2017 poll.

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• Best BakeryGourmandise The Bakery
• Best Coffee House to appreciate Utah's southern landscapeThe Rock Stop

  Across the street from the Maynard Dixon Museum, just outside the sleepy burg of Orderville, is the most eclectic coffee house down south. The nearly 50-year-old Rock Stop is actually built…

• Best Coffee ShopBeans & Brews
• Best Conversation PieceGood Grammar's Pop Culture Wall

  Although it's puzzling why a place named for a word-nerd fetish is decorated with so many portraits of pop culture icons, it is kinda fun to get drunk and try to identify them all…

• Best Dentist-Approved CandyPrime Toffee

  It might seem unusual for a retired dentist to get into the candy-making business, but Dr. Ross Cheesman insists that there's no conflict between moderate consumption of sweets and a…

• Best DessertsGourmandise The Bakery
• Best DoughnutsBanbury Cross
• Best evolved Fruit Roll-UpRolled Ice Cream at Roll With It Creamery

  Ice cream is one of those rare foods that can have its flavor altered based on the shape it takes. Rolled ice cream, for example, starts with a dollop of custard or sorbet that is poured…

• Best hill to roll a rock up and down, up and down, up and down, until you dieUtah State University's Old Main Hill

  So you're quasi-fluent in French and a born-again existentialist that's looking for something to consummate your transformation. Don't wait on State Street for an acquaintance named Godot…

• Best personal Dessert RoomThe Chocolate

  All by themselves, the cakes, tarts, cookies and other sweet treats at this charming dessert café are sufficient reason to visit. What makes the experience even more delightful is the…

• Best Piercer/Body ModifierDustin Robbins at Enso Piercing + Adornment
• Best Pinterest-worthy BakeryTulie Bakery

  If Pinterest were a place, it would be called Tulie Bakery—that or bacon-wrapped DIY wedding knits. Tulie Bakery offers pastries, tarts, cookies, cakes and even has a lunch menu of…

• Best Sweets for your HikeTrail Truffles

  Active Utahns know that you need to consider the practicality of the snacks you choose to take on the trail—and candy would seem to be a no-no, what with the melty-ness and high sugar…

• Best taste bud teaseBagels and Greens on Main

  The coming-soon announcement on the first-floor glass of the U.S. Bank building on 200 South and Main was a cruel, hunger-inducing temptress. This second location to The Bagel Project was…