This article is excerpted from the Utah Eats newsletter, compiled by Kolbie Peterson, Tribune’s food and drink reporter. To get the full newsletter in your inbox every Wednesday, become a subscriber by going to sltrib.com/newsletters .
Hello, Eaters! You probably noticed that Sean P. Means has been kindly filling in on Utah Eats while I was away on trips to the United Kingdom and central Utah. But I’m excited to be back, and what better way to celebrate than by checking out a brand new restaurant? Paréa , at 320 E.
900 South in Salt Lake City (across the street from Loki Coffee and Chubby Baker ), is the latest project from chefs Manoli and Katrina Katsanevas, the owners of Manoli’s , a Greek restaurant just down the street that focuses on locally sourced small plates. While Manoli’s is more of a fine-dining restaurant, Manoli Katsanevas told me, Paréa is much more casual: part gyro spot, part market. The idea for Paréa — which opened earlier this month — stems from when Manoli’s had to close for five months during the pandemic, Katsanevas said.
To stay afloat, they did gyro pop-up events, and also sold grab-and-go and take-and-bake items. “It was a huge success,” he said. After they found the building that would become Paréa — a refurbished vintage house just west of Manoli’s — they thought they should combine the two ventures (gyros and grab-and-go) into one business, Katsanevas said.
(Kolbie Peterson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Various dry good.
