Restaurant review

Virg's restaurant
Taylorsville, Utah

Tara and I went up to Salt Lake tonight to go out to eat. Our destination was "Red Iguana" up by the airport, but when we got there, the place was packed (good sign) and the wait was a hour or so to get a table. We didn't want to wait an hour, so we went driving around looking for a different place to eat.

It seemed a little silly to me to drive 40 miles just to eat a Chili's or Applebee's, so we looked around for a place we hadn't been before, but we couldn't get 5 minutes from our house. This is not as easy as it looks. There were some possibilities here and there, but a few of them had empty parking lots (bad sign), or really long waits.

After about an hour of driving, we ended up seeing a little diner way back in a shopping plaza. It looked like it was a converted Winger's, there were about a dozen or so couple in there at the time, so we decided to try it out. We could have just stayed at the parking lot of the Red Iguana at that point, having spent an hour in a standard search pattern. We will have to go try again next time we have a reason to head up to the airport.

I got the Club Sandwich. Check out the link for a picture. It was touted as "so big it is almost illegal". Tara had a Mexican combo plate. Tara also ordered some onion rings, but thought they were kind of lackluster. I thought my sandwich was ok, but that was about it, nothing spectactular.

I wouldn't send someone back into the back of that shopping plaza to eat there, but maybe it was just what I ordered. The fries I had were just sliced potatoes that they fried, but they kind of tasted like they needed to be left in the fryer for another minute to crisp up just a bit. The waitress was at times attentive, but also a little slow. There are lots of other places to eat up there, maybe pick one of the places you know what you are getting yourself into, rather than pick this place.

The origonal Virg's is a place in Erda, Utah. Erda appears to be a suburb of Tooele. Having said that, it might just be the best place to eat in Erda, but likely not in Taylorsville...