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Recently reviewed: Dona Mary’s

<strong>Recently Reviewed</strong><strong>Doña Mary Mexican Grill</strong>Restaurants are a dime a dozen in Utah Valley, especially on State Street in Orem. Within that culinary clutter, there’s a Mexican restaurant that deserves your ...

CLOSED: The menu trek: Taco Burrito puts Mexican dining on the map

There's a popular show on BYUtv called "The Story Trek" where the host and other chosen cohorts blindly and randomly point to states, cities and neighborhoods on a map that determine where they will seek ensuing interview subjects.When stumbling across Taco Burrito Mexican Restaurant for our ...

Drive-thru gourmet: Pizza Hut gets wings right

This week I reached out for an eight-piece order of Crispy Bone-In Buffalo Burnin' Hot wings, freshly fried, at the No. 1 pizza chain, Pizza Hut.That's the big news here: Pizza Hut has installed deep-fryers in 5,000 of its restaurants, the Pizza Huts with a "WingStreet" sign outside. If you're ...

Dona Mary Mexican Grill and the ghosts of restaurants past

I haven’t fared so well with Mexican restaurants in Utah.Almost immediately after reviewing the excellent Los 3 Amigos a few months ago, it went out of business. Before that, my other favorite Mexican restaurant in Utah Valley, Taco Riendo, went and moved locations, then shrunk its mammoth ...

Drive-thru gourmet: Wendy’s salads are the real deal

This week I reached out for a new BBQ Ranch Chicken Salad, the latest addition to the premium line of chef-inspired salads at the No. 3 burger dynasty, Wendy's, with 6,500 restaurants 'round the world.While other burger chains give a half-hearted, old unaccredited-college try with salads -- ...

Recently reviewed: Farr’s Fresh

<strong>Recently Reviewed</strong><strong>Farr's Fresh</strong>You don't have to go far for a fresh new take on dessert-disguised-as-breakfast decadence. We recently visited Farr's Fresh in American Fork to pamper ourselves with the ...