DESERET NEWS
Dining Out: Ruth's Diner
July 9, 2009
By Stacey Kratz

SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
2010 Reader's Choice Award - Best Breakfast

SALT LAKE MAGAZINE
2010 Reader's Choice Awards
2008 Dining Awards
2004 Dining Awards

BEST BREAKFAST - 2010

BEST COMFORT FOOD - 2010

BEST BREAKFAST - 2008
For years, we've given awards for great brunch spreads, but left unmentioned the earlier, humbler meal, breakfast—what many people call "the most important meal of the day." Our bad. In a city where everyone cycles, skis, climbs and hikes, morning fortification is especially crucial, and Ruth's not only provides a delicious, substantial meal to start the day, but also a 76-year old home base of solid, sunshiny comfort that is the best part of breakfast. More biscuits, please.

Best FAMILY DINING - 2004
Ruth's Diner , 2100 E. Emigration Canyon, SLC—Granted, Ruth wasn't exactly the prototypical grandma. Unless, that is, you had a fun-loving grandma who cussed and smoked like a French trucker. So maybe she wasn't Aunt Bee, but Ruth's Diner is still a wonderful place to feed the family when you're looking for a Mayberry-style getaway. It's a classic trolley car diner with classic servers dishing out classic American cuisine in a classic setting. And the kids especially love the room to roam on the big patio in warm weather. Vital vittles: Liver and onions with mashed potatoes

City Weekly
"Best Breakfast"
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Ruth's Diner
This is the place for a hearty omelet and homemade biscuits every day from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. This is the place to order eggs Benedict and eggs florentine smothered in hollandaise, a sauce whose recipe remains a tightly guarded secret. This is also the place to see a ghost named Ruth, the colorful crone who hauled a Salt Lake trolley car up Emigration Canyon in 1949 to establish her namesake roadside diner. Forty years later, at the age of 94, Ruth passed on, and the diner is now owned by a man named Erik. But should you detect the faint odor of Lucky Strikes or hear the muffled yapping of Chihuahuas, it's probably Ruth coming back to warn Erik, "Whatever you do, don't tell 'em how I made the &%@# hollandaise sauce."

Ruth's Diner was one of 10 Utah places named in Travelocity's "Local Secrets, Big Finds" survey of the travel service's member database. The restaurant, in Emigration Canyon, was selected from more than 40,000 member entries naming favorite places that tourists might easily overlook. Ruth's was the only restaurant chosen. Other spots listed were the Alpine Loop, Daniels Summit Lodge in Heber, Timpanogos Cave National Monument, Festival of the American West in Wellsville, Hardware Ranch in Logan, the Manti Temple in Manti, the Mount Nebo Loop, the Oakley Rodeo and Zion Ponderosa Ranch in Mt. Carmel.

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