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I love the food at bout time.
Consistently fantastic.
I reccomend the stuffed jalepenos as an appetizer (one of the best things I ever ate) no matter what you get for you main course. Always get the stuffed jalapenos
 
Beer said:
That is 100% inaccurate ****ing bull ****. Just speaking truth.
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Your inability to distinguish between hype and reality renders your opinion moot.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Your inability to distinguish between hype and reality renders your opinion moot.
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For me I'm always hesitant to go nuts recommending Red Iguana, although I think they're very very good. They do have a few dishes that are a bit pretentious, there for show, and they do them well. But much of what they do is just well made basic Mexican food. If you order an enchilada and expect to have the greatest dining experience of your life you're in for a pretty big disappointment.

I think there is room to call Red Iguana overrated, but I think that comes from people's enjoyment of their food and their enthusiastic endorsement of it being misinterpreted for a declaration of something else much more grand than that.

But if you want good mole in a place like Utah, no one that I know of has better and no one has more varieties.

All that said, Red Iguana has a special place in my heart. It is walking distance from the house I grew up in and it's the first place I took my wife out to eat that I would call a date (we had known each other for many years and gone out to eat many times, but our first trip to RI was essentially the beginning of our dating relationship) and it turned into an every Friday night spot for us for a pretty long time, well before it became as popular and well known as it is now. Back when Ramon was still around. When there was a line and my wife and I would show up they'd seat us right away.

But yeah, I try to temper expectations when I tell people about it. I try to gauge what they're looking for in a Mexican joint. I know that it's not going to knock everyone's socks off who've had their heads filled with tales of the best Mexican food in the world. With such high expectations the best Mexican food in the world would likely be a let down.
 
I thought red iguana was very meh. (Only went one time though)

I like la luna better for 1/3 of the price
 
bigb said:
North Salt Lake. The poor side, not up on the hill.
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It's ok. At least the mountain is not crashing into and destroying your house. I have no sympathy for the ideas who have built east of you, needing to construct an idol unto themselves.

Pizza: I still love the Pie and Litzas Pizza.

Mexican: la hacienda right off the freeway in draper just down by allstar recreation center. Get off on 123rd s exit and you're basically there. Amazing everything. Try their enchiladas verde, tamales, or skillets. Can't lose. I also love taramara in midway right before heber. Amazing. Unique things about it is that they have a salsa bar, so you can try out a bunch of different salsas. Some are sweet. Some are spicey. And inside they have their own lil bakery. So try out some of that stuff. They also sell lil cool things (that I love... Err. The kiddos love) like mexican popcicles. They're tropical juice flavors rather than the crap our American stuff is made of.

Bbq: never been to smokin bones but I've heard its good. All star bbq off the center street exit in Orem on Geneva road has some of the best brisket I've had. Get there early cuz they run out. Sometimes their service sucks too... But the brisket is to die for.
 
The Thriller said:
Bbq: never been to smokin bones but I've heard its good. All star bbq off the center street exit in Orem on Geneva road has some of the best brisket I've had. Get there early cuz they run out. Sometimes their service sucks too... But the brisket is to die for.
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That's a good one, and overlooked one because their main clients are the industrial-ish crowd in that area. Definitely not an area you would normally drive to to pick an eating spot.
 
Duck Rodgers said:
That's a good one, and overlooked one because their main clients are the industrial-ish crowd in that area. Definitely not an area you would normally drive to to pick an eating spot.
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Very good, I actually prefer it to Bam Bams.
 
bigb said:
North Salt Lake. The poor side, not up on the hill.
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Me too! Although i have a bountiful address, it's pretty much north salt lake. Just down the hill from the winegars on orchard drive. Between there and bird world.
 
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