A popular Salt Lake City brewpub is making a major menu change in 2025, bringing in a Taiwanese-Chinese restaurant to revamp the bar’s food offerings.
Grid City Beer Works, located at 333 W. 2100 South in Salt Lake City, is partnering with Drunken Kitchen starting Jan. 3, the brewpub announced Thursday on its Instagram account.
After five years in business, Grid City’s owners said in their announcement that “it’s time to innovate a new concept that can propel our taproom restaurant experience to the next level.”
Drunken Kitchen will take over the restaurant side of Grid City’s business, the announcement said, with an “exciting menu” that “perfectly complements” the brewpub’s craft beers and hard seltzers.
Grid City will close out its old menu items this week with what the brewpub is calling its “first annual Christmas hangover,” now through Tuesday — New Year’s Eve, the announcement said. The brewpub will then close Jan. 1 and 2 to switch over, and reopen with the Drunken Kitchen food menu on Friday, Jan. 3.
Grid City’s kitchen was known for offering a host of vegan food options, including various vegan burgers and vegan butter, ranch and other sauces.
Drunken Kitchen’s current menu features braised pork belly, Taiwanese fried chicken, “three-cup” chicken, noodle soups and more. Its vegan options currently include veggie potstickers, marinated cucumbers, a tofu stir-fry and a vegetable stir-fry.
Tim Rammell, who owns the restaurant with his brother, Joe, said Thursday that Drunken Kitchen will move out of its current location as part of the partnership.
Drunken Kitchen was launched from the Square Kitchen culinary incubator and is currently located in the Square Kitchen Eatery, a former KFC location at 2435 S. State St. in South Salt Lake.
The Rammell brothers created Drunken Kitchen as a place to serve “bold flavors inspired by the Chinese and Taiwanese cuisine of their childhood,” according to its website.