Summer has arrived in Salt Lake City, bringing an exciting lineup of events, festivals, and cultural celebrations worth marking on your calendar.
Just released is our conversation with Manoli Katsanevas, founder of the beloved Manoli's and Perea restaurants. This deep dive explores his culinary journey and significant contributions to Salt Lake's food scene, while highlighting the upcoming Greek Festival that promises authentic cuisine, vibrant performances, and cultural traditions whether you're attending for the first or twentieth time.
The city is buzzing with activity as concert season hits its peak – from Halsey and Kesha to local performances, music lovers have plenty to celebrate. Wine enthusiasts won't want to miss our Wine Wednesday event at Nona Bistro featuring Jimmy Santangelo of Wine Academy of Utah, promising an evening of exceptional tastings and knowledge. Meanwhile, foodies should clear their schedules for July 9th when the Food Truck Cheese Fest takes over Mill Creek Common from 5-8pm, offering a family-friendly opportunity to indulge in creative, cheese-filled creations from local vendors.
With both July 4th and Pioneer Day (July 24th) approaching, Salt Lake City will transform with parades, fireworks, rodeos, and community gatherings. Our Thursday newsletter will feature comprehensive guides to these celebrations, ensuring you don't miss the festivities around our beautiful city. Whether you're celebrating Independence Day traditionally or embracing the uniquely Utah "Pie and Beer Day" alternative to Pioneer Day, there's something for everyone.
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Join Erik as he supports Fork Cancer, a night of food, drinks, and live music—all for a great cause. Grab your tickets at utah.acscanforkcancer.org and enter Erik Nilsson to help him hit his $12,000 fundraising goal!
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Episode Transcript
What is up everybody and welcome back to another
Tuesday update.
It is me, eric Nilsson, thehost of the Small Lake City
podcast, and have a coupleannouncements for you.
First off, if you haven'tlistened to the episode with
Manoli Katsanevas, it's amazing.
He's such a good guy who's doneso much for the community.
We talk about him foundingManoli's definitely my favorite
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Greek restaurant in the city,how that led to him starting his
second restaurant, perea, andthen also talking a lot about
the Greek community and also theGreek festival coming up, which
you should all be excited for,whether this is your first time
or your 20th time going.
So we'll have more details aswe get closer to that.
Been super grateful.
(00:43):
It's been concert season.
As we get closer to that, beensuper grateful.
It's been concert season.
I went to Halsey last Tuesday,went to a Ranger sound car and
do party on Saturday, which wasa blast, and then actually
headed to Kesha tonight.
So lots of great concerts.
We have a lot more giveawayscoming up.
Excited to announce some morewith you as well.
(01:03):
Next Wednesday, we have WineWednesday at Nona Bistro with
Jimmy Santangelo of Wine Academyof Utah.
Keep an eye out on theInstagram post for RSVP and more
information.
Just trying to wrap up somedetails to get that up and going
.
This weekend is obviously the4th of July weekend, so
definitely be safe.
But there's a lot of greatplaces to check out, some
fireworks and a lot of thingsaround the city.
I will be doing an exhaustivelist of that this Thursday on
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the newsletter.
So make sure to go sign up forthat, while you can, just on the
website, small lake podcom, andit will guide you to the right
place.
And also, if the 4th of July iscoming around the corner, then
we sure as hell know that the24th of July is coming up, aka
pioneer day, aka pie and beerday, however you decide to
(01:46):
celebrate.
So there's a lot of thingscoming up from rodeos and
parties and all sorts of funstuff.
So we'll get a little bit moredetailed information as we get
closer to that.
Also coming up next week on July9th is the Food Truck Cheese
Fest by Cash Valley Creamery,which is going to be at the Mill
Creek Common.
Lots of great food.
(02:07):
It's going to be afamily-friendly event.
So bring your mom, bring yourdad, bring your kids, bring your
grandpa, bring your grandma,whoever you want to.
That'll be between 5 and 8 pmat Mill Creek Common.
Like I said, 1353 East ChambersAve, mill Creek, utah.
In case you need to know, I'llbe there shoving my face full of
cheese, so make sure to comejoin me and enjoy some great
(02:30):
food.
Other than that, I actuallydon't have a guest on 100%
lineup for this weekend.
There's a few people who couldpotentially be just working on
some scheduling, so we'llhopefully have something
announced on Thursday.
If not, it might be a pauseweek and I'll release another
Vault episode or we could have afull episode.
So keep an eye on the Instagramaccount and newsletter for that
(02:53):
and hopefully have somethingbetter to update you with.
Otherwise, go check out theepisode with Manoli Katsanevas,
or the episode that I justreleased this week from the
Vault series with Eason Cisnerosof Thirst Drinks.
So, yeah, lots of great thingscoming up, but stay in the mix
by following on Instagram,subscribing to the newsletter
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and making sure that, on thisepisode, that you are following
Small Lake City and that you aredownloading all new episodes so
they are ready for you wheneveryou want them.
So have a great week, have agreat 4th and I will catch you
later this weekend.
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