over the counter

We did not have skiing on the schedule for Sunday and it turned out to be a less than ideal day for outdoor activities (gray, spitting wet snow), so we decided to go out for breakfast to a new place: the Over the Counter Cafe, at 2343 E 3300 S, Salt Lake City.  I'd read a bunch of good reviews, including in our awesome SLC guidebook, so we were psyched to try something new.

The recent review in the paper said that it gets busy on the weekends, so we got there before 9:00 a.m.  Whether it was because it was snowing or because it was Sunday, and thus a church day, it was not, in fact, busy and we took seats at the counter.  There's actually a lot of seating but if you sit at the U-shaped counter, you can watch the cooks work the griddles right out there in the middle of the cafe - excellent entertainment.

H got a breakfast burrito - sausage and peppers and egg in tortillas, served with fresh salsa and homefries; I got my go-to diner breakfast of two eggs over medium with bacon and homefries.  The bacon was marvelous - five big, thick, crispy/chewy slices, by far the most superior bacon of the SLC diners we've tried.  The rest of the food was okay: H's burritos were on the small side for the price, my eggs were not so much medium as easy, and the homefries - while hand-sliced and fresh - could have been crispier.

If we were to rank the SLC diners we've patronized thus far, the list would go like this: Ruth's first, then a toss-up between the Other Place and Cottonwood Cafe (with a slight edge to TOP because I like their Greek scramble), and Over the Counter coming in last.  Still, I feel it is important to try new places and if we hadn't tried this one, I would have missed out on that glorious bacon.