We buy local and seasonal...
We cook local and seasonal...
We always have...
We always will...
We are Utah's Original Locavore Restaurant!
Every Saturday morning and Tuesday afternoon, Eman and I perform the same ritual: We visit the Pioneer Park's farmers market. There we spend hours walking to every booth looking for the best product, talking to the farmers, buying cases upon cases of product before loading up our truck and driving back to The Paris.... We occasionally see other chefs there, but rather than buying vegetables, they seem more interested in posing for the local media in their impeccably pressed chef's whites.
We have been sourcing, buying, cooking local products ever since I first opened the Olive Barrel Food Company back in 1991, long before the
words "organic", "local", "sustainable" became common lingo in the restaurant community. Also eons before the locavore/nose-to-tail/farm-to-the-table hysteria became a fashionable trend amongst the Salt lake city restaurant community..... Some farmers like John Garofalo from Ranui Gardens even drop off our vegetables directly at the restaurant before they hit the Market at 6AM. Others, like Julie from Clifford Farms, John from Borski farms set our produce aside on their trucks for us....Check out our farmers market slideshow... click here
