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Trolley Coffee Company is a new coffee shop inside Trolley Square, on the west side of the shopping center just south of West Elm (if you need the exact address, it’s 602 E. 500 South in Salt Lake City).

The business is owned by 23-year-old Lex Jardine (pictured above) and her dad, Mike Jardine, who also owns Burger Fusion in Trolley Square. But Lex Jardine is the creative mind behind the shop’s menu, look and vibe.

This is her first business, but she said her parents started their first venture when she was 11, so she grew up in the “business world” with them.

“I always thought I knew what … they were getting themselves into, and then I had my own [business], and I was like, ‘Holy crap! This is way more work than I thought you guys were doing,’” she said of her parents.

The origin story: Jardine started drinking coffee as a teenager, and said she immediately fell in love with how customizable it was. A few years ago, she began working as a barista at a coffee chain, where she encountered customers who “were just happy to be there, and I was happy to serve them,” she said.

Eventually tiring of “corporate coffee,” Jardine left her job in December and jumped at the chance to open her own coffee shop in Trolley Square. Starting with just white walls and a white floor, Jardine and her parents transformed the empty storefront into a cute coffee haven and opened it in June.

The vibe: Jardine describes her style as “grandma-core,” and said she brought that vibe to Trolley Coffee Company. “I just wanted it to be a place that felt very warm and inviting,” she said. The shop’s walls are decorated with framed paintings and other artwork (including a large picture of Jardine’s cat, Fresca, in a fancy hat), mirrors and little lamps, giving it an eclectic feel, like an antique shop that happens to serve coffee.

If you like to watch yourself drink your coffee, take a seat on the couch in front of the GIANT floor-to-ceiling mirror.

The menu: Classic drinks like cappuccinos and Americanos, alongside a menu of signature drinks that are based on Jardine’s favorite states, like the Boise Berry Latte for Idaho, and the Home Sweet Home for Utah. There’s also a special fall menu running through October that includes drinks like The Cozy Cauldron, which is butterbeer chai with whipped cream and caramel drizzle. There’s also a weekly dessert made by Jardine’s sister. To read about my order, scroll down to “Drink and Treat of the Week.”

The hours: Monday-Friday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Live deliciously,

Kolbie

Food News

• Pie Boy Pizza — the pizzeria brought to us on a pop-up basis by the same folks that own Baby’s Bagels, in the same space at 204 E. 500 South — used to feel like a secret, with it being open only three nights a week. But now, Pie Boy is expanding to be open five nights a week, Wednesday through Sunday, from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., according to an email from one of the owners. The team is making a change to its menu, too: In addition to serving whole pies, Caesar salad, beer, cocktails and wine, pizza by the slice will be offered for walk-ins.

• Snuck Farm, at 504 W. 1100 North in Pleasant Grove, still has tickets available for its hands-on sourdough pasta-making class on Wednesday, Oct. 21, from 6 to 8 p.m. Tickets are $95 each. Not only will you learn how to make fresh sourdough pasta from scratch, but you’ll also leave with a batch of your own pasta. The class includes a meal of pasta, greens and sourdough bread at the end. Tickets will go fast for this workshop.

• Ritual Chocolate is hosting a truffle-making class on Thursday, Oct. 29 from 6 to 7 p.m., where you’ll learn about the chocolate-making process and hand-roll your own truffles to take home. Tickets are $25. To sign up for the class, email info@ritualchocolate.com.

Openings:

• After a remodel, Cozy Coffee, at 2580 S. Main St. in South Salt Lake, is back open. An Instagram post announcing a soft opening last week said, “This is only the beginning.”

Moving:

• After 19 years of doing business on the corner of 500 South and 200 East in Salt Lake City, first with Les Madeleines and next with Chez Nibs and Xiao Bao Bao (which closed in June), Romina Rasmussen is moving her bakery/chocolate shop Chez Nibs to a new, unknown location, according to a video on Instagram. You have until Saturday to stop by the shop at 212 E. 500 South and pick up chocolates and kouign amann before it closes for now.

• Has a restaurant opened or closed in your neighborhood? Let us know at food@sltrib.com.

Booze (and Drink!) News

• In a mashup of summer and Oktoberfest, Second Summit Cider, at 4010 S. Main St. in Millcreek, is holding an event called the Bavarian Beach Bash on Saturday, according to an Instagram post. The all-day celebration will feature a free pancake breakfast, a pickleball tournament, games and prizes, plenty of hard cider, and oysters and lobster rolls from @theoysterguyslc.

• Also happening on Saturday is T.F. Brewing’s eighth annual Oktoberfest, at 936 S. 300 West in Salt Lake City, according to an Instagram post. Tickets are available on the brewery’s website: General admission is $10 in advance and $15 the day of the 21-plus event, and for $35, you can get general admission and a special mug. There will be food, games, music and lots of beer.

Drink and Treat of the Week

When I visited Trolley Coffee Company, I was really craving something fall-y, so I ordered a drink off the fall menu called the Sticky Sweet Vermont, which is a salted maple brown butter latte with pumpkin cold foam.

This drink was filled with warming spices and fall flavor, and I loved the pumpkin cold foam on top. It gave the drink just enough pumpkin flavor without hitting me over the head with it. And if a salted maple brown butter latte could still be light and not cloyingly sweet and rich, this coffee was, somehow.

To go with it, I got the pumpkin chocolate chip cookies (pictured above), which, OK, might have been a bit much, but I was on a fall tear. The cookies had brown butter frosting on top, which went with the brown butter in the drink, and the flavors mirrored each other beautifully. Hail fall!

P.S. The pumpkin cookies were on the menu for a week, and that week has passed, but watch for them again because Jardine says they’re coming back this season.

— Newsletter written by Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune’s food and drink reporter. The Tribune pays for all of the food written about in this newsletter.