tin angel

Last week four of us from work went to the Tin Angel Cafe for lunch.  I had noticed the restaurant a couple of weeks ago when H and I were driving around looking for parking during the SLC Saturday Farmers' Market at Pioneer Park; the Tin Angel is located just south of the park.  It's a very funky and very tasty place.

There are seating options for everyone at the cafe: inside, out on the open patio and under the covered patio.  It was really hot (90+) on the day we went so we opted for the covered patio, which was just perfect: warm - which was much appreciated after the icebox-like air conditioned temperature at our office - but not sweaty.  The furniture, china and silverware were all mismatched, in an eclectic, consignment-store kind of way, and there were lots of nice container plantings all around the small patio.  There was also an awesome mural of a skeleton angel on the wall (the skull had eyelashes!) and if I didn't have a dinosaur of a cellphone, I totally would have taken a picture of it.

The food was good too.  I had the vegetarian baguette (hummus, cucumbers, feta cheese, sprouts and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar) and a mesclun mix side salad with house-made lavender dressing (could have used a little more dressing); the others at the table had roasted lamb with feta cheese and pesto on ciabbata bread; a ham and cheese croissant; and the house soup, creamy spinach and fontina cheese. 

The restaurant makes a point of buying local products, which is awesome.  They're also open for dinner (reservations recommended) and brunch on Saturdays (which I imagine is a ZOO in the summer what with the market just across the street).  I'd like to go back for dinner sometime with H: I think he'd like it.