Gastronomic Salt Lake City

New restaurant on the corner of 21st south and 9th east, in what I think was formerly a Christian book shop. Anyway, their thing seems to be fast healthy food. We were pretty hungry driving home tonight and noticed the place was packed out, we also noticed they were advertising they had a drive through. We pulled straight into the drive through which was full of cars.

The menu was an interesting read. Salads, flat bread pizzas, sandwiches and wraps, plus odd stuff like sushi rolls, chicken pot pies, sweet potato fries etc. Quite a diverse selection and a break from the drive through burger joints that dominate. I did take a picture of the menu on my cell phone but it didn't come out well enough to post.

Anyway we waited in the drive through queue for probably five minutes before realising none of the cars in front of us had drivers, or indeed anyone else in them Looks like the place wasn't technically yet open, maybe a private party as it was packed out.

Will definitely have to check the place out when it finally opens, a unique concept for sure. I checked on-line and it doesn't seem to be a chain. Fingers crossed that it's decent, hopefully then some of my fast food will be of a healthier nature. If anyone tries it let me know.

Interesting, and interesting times to be opening a new business of any kind.

The Globe Cafe was able to survive 9/11 (grand opening was 9/10) for a few years.

Au Naturale is close enough that I will check them out...

Was that Adam Kreisel's old place? I don't think we ever tried that.

Nice one

We were far too excited reading from the quite big drive through board menu. For some reason drive through menu's fascinate me in particular

The one and only.

Too bad. It was amazing.

Funny, I did the same thing. It was all lit up and there were people inside so I drove up and checked out the menu board and then noticed a sign that said they would be open on October 9th. They had a little bit on this place on kutv this morning. They showed some sweet potato fries and a caprese salad. Both looked delicious (for fast food, at least). The fries are baked and only 120 calories for an order. I couldn't find a website for them with google, but kutv had a link. It's goaunaturale.com.

Ooh linkage! I'm fairly curious about the "order online" option, hope they aren't biting off more than they can chew.

Well, we went through the drivethrough tonight, they were in a bit of trouble when we hit the place at 8.30. We heard the chef saying they were going to close the kitchen down in 5 mins time (and they list 10pm as weeknight closure). First night, they ran out of tons of stuff, obviously still learning. No problem with that, to be expected. Food was pretty tasty, will be in the next review.

I must have went on a bad night. I was very impressed with the concept, menu offerings and the branding, though my wife's turkey burger was quite good, the rest of the meal was off the mark. I ordered a ceasar salad with ahi tuna - the salad was ice cold, which I guess for fast food they need to make these in advance but with some of the more "gourmet" salads that McDonalds and Wendy's are offering they really need to step this one up. The tuna was cooked well done - almost leathery - I assumed it would be seared since they have a seared tuna sandwich and a tuna sushi roll. I had a cup of chicken chili which was decent but nothing better than you could get out of a can (and not as good as some of the soups I've had up the road at Paradise Bakery). My wife's turkey burger was good (we both ended up sharing it), but her side of sweet potato fries were a mixed bag (literally) - half were burnt the other half soggy and cold. Nothing quite as good as the ones at the Bayou or MaCool's. The staff was super friendly and we got it to go or I would have been inclined to say something, but the menu is promising and I think I'll definitely give them another shot in a couple weeks after they've had time to iron out some kinks.