Any recommendations for Salt Lake City?

[thewayne]

Russet and I will be there for part of Wednesday and Thursday next week and I'm looking for good restaurants and such. Also any good used CD or book stores.

I think we'll be near the university center, but we're driving, so moving about isn't an issue.

Thanks!

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[thewayne]

Oh, Brazilian steakhouses are so yummy!  It's been absolute ages since I've been to an Imax, and we have one in Alamogordo at the Space Museum!  Never been here, been living here or coming up for almost 20 years, too.

[acelightning73]

The IMAX movie was Tom Cruise aboard the ISS. They were frisbeeing a flour tortilla around the cabin, taking a bite as it flew past. And they wore shorts and tank tops, and socks, to work in.

And here in New Jersey, there are a number of brazilian barbecue places. Apparently a lot of Portuguse and Spanish sailors settled around the shores of Raritan Bay, which makes up the lower part of New York Harbor. There are two of them within a few miles of me,although I haven't been to them. But it's great fun. My son and his wife were in one, and my d-i-l took the wooden block and turned it so the red side was up -"stop bringing us meat for a little while". And the buffet with the sides was fun - french fries, beans and rice,and I think some sort of Brazilian coleslaw. And I had my favorite alcholic drink - a caipirinha, which is made from cachaca, a form of distilled sugar-cane spirit, vaguely like rum, muddle half a lime with some sugar and serve very cold. I gave a sip to a friend of mine who was at the restaurant with me, and her comment was, "Rocket fuel". And the one thing I kept asking them to bring more of was turkey breast medallions, wrapped in bacon and barbecued. And my son liked the alligator sausage.

[thewayne]

Two friends of mine whom I see pretty much every time I go to Phoenix, they got a gift card for a Brazilian steakhouse and invited me to join them.  I had a very nice small salad before we got into the meat run.  I recall the meat I liked the most was a parm cheese-crusted pork.  Just amazing!