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Show I KflaanoIk(BitTiDllaacB(B Sunlit Columbine Dinner Club fills the bill for sophistication and moderate prices at The Resort Center. Christopher smart Park City's newest dinner club has personality, pizzazz and piano by CHRISTOPHER SMART Record staff writer "You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh. " If you remember where that line . was immortalized, ; you probably have a soft spot for the sound of live ' piano music in a bar. Park City now has a restaurant-bar restaurant-bar that features live piano at the Columbine Dinner Club at The Resort Center. It isn't exactly Rick's place in Casablanca, where Sam would play it again for Humphrey Bogart as he pined away for Ingrid Bergman. But the Columbine has a personality of its own and views that will take your heart away as though Sam were singing, "...a vista is still a vista." Perched atop the newly completed additions to The Resort Center, the Columbine "fills a niche that has been open for along time," says Ruth Ann Fitzgerald, the sales and marketing coordinator for the new Resort Center project. She said the private club serves well-prepared dishes enhanced by a nice decor. But such an understatement understate-ment is readily recognizable upon entering the restaurant. It does feel sophisticated and people are dressing for dinner, Fitzgerald says, but a perusal of the menu shows prices are reasonable. The bill of fare is largely fresh seafood and beef. For example, king crab legs are $13, broiled halibut steak is $6.75 and New York steak is $8.75. But the menu also includes such s items as chicken teriyaki and chicken dijon. And Fitzgerald brags that the hors d'oeuvres are a meal in themselves. Favorites are beer-batter beer-batter onion rings and homemade mozzarella sticks, peel-and-eat shrimp in boats and steamer clams. The Resort Center's new restaurant restau-rant is open for lunch and dinner every day but Monday. For lunch, the Columbine offers everything from Oriental stir-fry to the Columbine Club Burger and seafood crepes. Enticing it is, but the question remains, why a private club? The answer, says a Resort Center spokesman; is that in Utah,5 private club status offers the smoothest operation for a guest, who simply can order a drink and get one. The restaurant club is geared toward locals as well as Salt Lake patrons, Fitzgerald explains. She noted the club's $20 membership fee is standard for most private clubs. In addition, the $5 temporary membership member-ship won't keep tourists and skiers away. |
