A newly lax Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City is “home to a growing counterculture,” said Josh Noel in the Chicago Tribune. When the predominantly Mormon and historically conservative Utah capital hosted the 2002 Olympics, the city was “forced to open itself to a world of people, ideas, and cultures.” The evolution continues, as a new liquor law recently ended a requirement that drinkers purchase a membership for each bar they visit. Not surprisingly, “bar-hopping is in vogue now.” On a Saturday night, “almost every stool” was filled at new bar Beerhive, where “mountain youth” drank low-alcohol beers from two of Salt Lake’s microbreweries. At Pago, diners sipped Spanish wines and nibbled from a “local-centric” menu exemplifying the city’s “ever-expanding food scene.” There are still stipulations (beer on tap can’t exceed 4 percent alcohol, for instance), but Salt Lake is no longer a “buzz saw on your fun.”
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