Welcome to STREET Magazine s first edition of STREET DINING GUIDE published by SPARC Publishing, LLC! We are pleased to offer you, the visitor and the local resident, a full listing of ALL restaurants, complete with descriptions and information about the wonderful dining spots all over Weber, Davis and Cache counties. If you are visiting, we urge you to try out many restaurants right here in our part of the Wasatch Front. You will be glad you did! As a resident, I am sure you will see how lucky we are to have such variety, quality and diversity for our dining experience right here in our own valley.

When you think of fine dining and original food, you may think of San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Monterey, California. Or you may think of the Big Apple, New York City. Or perhaps you may think of the original sources of all this fine cuisine from France, Italy, Greece, China, Japan, Mexico, and beyond. Ogden is the culmination of all these cities and foreign cuisines and always has been with our multi-cultural community. Within the entire Weber County; there is such variety of foods prepared by some of the finest trained and talented chefs in the world right here for our enjoyment.

As a visitor to Ogden, we welcome you to try out these special down-home recipes from every corner of the world. Ogden has always been a restaurant town, from the days of the railroad and even beyond to the roots of our home-style pioneer recipes. The Historic 25th Street district was loaded with cafes and restaurants from Wall Avenue to Washington Boulevard, serving the many visitors from the many trains that stopped in Junction City all day long while passing through or visiting Historic 25th Street and Historic Downtown Ogden. Now it has become a restaurant row again in Ogden s renaissance that has been evolving for 30 years or more. We have always been known as an excellent food city. Some of those restaurants still survive. We have many restaurants that are a half- century old right here in Ogden. Yet, recently with this new renaissance coming upon our city of Ogden, there have been restaurants opening up faster than Wal-Marts or Starbucks.

Our downtown Ogden area is becoming a mecca for fine and original cuisine. And we are not talking about franchises, but down-home Ma-and-Pa type restaurants with trained chefs and/or individuals sharing their family recipes and special touches owned, operated and usually prepared by the actual owner in the kitchen. In Layton, and on the 12th Street corridor, and on Riverdale Road, you will find some of the best of the nation s franchises, however, if that is your choice. They are also offering locally owned restaurants as well. Downtown Ogden is known for the originality of Ma-and-Pa type restaurants with single ownerships and single outlets. The variety offered is outstanding all over Weber, Davis and Cache counties. We also list all the restaurants in our furthest north sister, Logan City, where the variety again is outstanding in this university town with pioneer roots.

Ogden folks have always had a taste for wonderful cuisine. There are many favorites that become regular hangouts and are popular with the locals that have been the IN place for decades or are fast becoming the new IN place. Many of them you will see in this premier edition of STREET DINING GUIDE. Some we will review, some have advertising. All are listed right in the GUIDES themselves, including an introduction to the new restaurants that open between each issue of STREET DINING GUIDE. We break them down by county, then alphabetically. Also we list them by type of cuisine and then again by area of town for you to easily make your decision for the evening, event, that special occasion, or your stay here in Ogden and the surrounding area. There are so many choices to satisfy your tastes, mood and your budget. All are authentic and right here in our own town of Ogden and the surrounding Layton and Logan areas.

You may also find this same information on our website STREET online at www.streetmagazine.net, where information from past issues is also stored as well as recent editions. Our STREET DINING GUIDE is also on our site, or you can go direct to www.OgdenDining.com. All of the restaurant information is located there, as well as links to many of the restaurant s own websites, their ad they run in STREET and a link to their menus. If you are looking for a complete night on the town, you will be able to find extensive calendar information available as well as local live music information. You can also check direct at www.OgdenLiveMusic.com. We urge your feedback on our magazines. Besides STREET Magazine quarterly and the STREET DINING GUIDE twice a year, we will also be publishing in 2004 the Eden Balloon and Arts Festival Program, Farmers and Art Market Guide, a Wedding Planning guide, a Health and Fitness Guide, and the premier edition of the Historic 25th Street Gazette. The STREET DINING GUIDE will be published twice a year for spring/summer and fall/winter distributions.

So, continue on and enjoy.

bon apetit.

STREET Magazine
Street DINING GUIDE
Published by Sparc Publishing, LLC