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Natural wooden columns parade down the length of The Tasting Room, a new wine bar opened around the corner from the Gateway center in Salt Lake City. A long bar stands in the center left of the room, with large, semi-circle booths to the front, and a glass wine cellar to the back. The walls are decorated with art — duck paintings and landscapes, and twisting sculptures of wood, one wall adorned with the bird of the bar’s logo, the yellow-breasted chat.
It’s hard to imagine this historical building as it was 15 years ago, a home-theater retail store, and a hundred years ago, a plow manufacturing warehouse.
When brothers Ryan and Kaleb Crafts bought the space, they used it for their family’s catering company, Culinary Crafts, and, similar to Kimball Terrace on Park City’s Main Street, it was a special event space.
“After the pandemic, this building was one of my slowest … to recover,” Ryan said, “and so we wanted to do something new with the building. And it was kind of sad just to have this beautiful building (sitting empty).”
With the ongoing development in downtown Salt Lake City — particularly, plans to expand the Delta Center to create a sports district — it made sense for them to keep the building and develop it into something new. And Ryan had always wanted to open a wine bar.
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