First Impressions of Salt Lake City

We got in to SLC yesterday night, and so far, it’s a pleasant place. The scenery is impressive, with snow-capped peaks as a backdrop to just about every viewable angle. Streets in the downtown area we’re staying in are enormously wide – you feel like you’re crossing a football field every time you traverse one. Lots of really drunk bums panhandling the downtown area, too, way more than I’ve seen in any East Coast city in recent years.

We hit a couple of brewpubs in the area last night, Red Rock & Squatters. They were both agreeable joints, the beer was palatable if not terribly adventurous (in keeping with a typical brewpub mass-appeal sensibility), and the food was decent, too. Alcohol
Content in them seemed really low (a Utah-specific regulated thing, maybe? Idk.). We went to check out a couple of other dive bars, but you apparently need a $5 “membership” to enter them? On a dead Wednesday night? Lame.