Ogden Dining, PO Box 12834, Ogden, UT (2025)

11/09/2023

Wing Wah has amazing Chinese cuisine at two locations.

We are open at both locations on Sunday!

📍 465 12th St, Ogden, UT

📍 1481 E 5600 S, South Ogden, UT

11/03/2023

MAYAN MOCHA is amazing at Coffee Links at River parkway. My favorite! I order it every time. Paired with pumpkin muffin 🎃 is perfecto. Eric the barista and Brenda service with a smile! They have a superb menu. Open early until 3pm 7 days a week.

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11/02/2023

Stellas on 25th Italian restaurant on historic 25th street is one of ogdens best Italian cuisine amongst many with an elegant atmosphere in the old Star noodle building. Best of all I got to dine with one of my dearest friends Sherry Ellis Ferrin. We both opted for lasagne per my recommendation since I’ve had it before and highly recommend it. So many great choices and will try them all eventually once I get lasagne cravings satisfied. I’ve craved it since I was there last time. I’m a bit of a lasagne snob and this one is superb. Chef Geraldine creates a dynamic menu of delicious dishes with the freshest ingredients. I had the mushroom soup and it was a tough choice as they were offering tomato bisque as well. Sherry had a fresh salad and it looked delicious. The best part is we finished up sharing a crème brûlée and it was exquisite. That also was a hard choice as they offer chocolate mousse and tiramisu. I give Stella’s a 5 star and will be back often!

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10/15/2023

TWO BIT STREET CAFE is an ogden classic located on historic 25th street. Serving fresh homemade food with a wide range of types of cuisine. They are well known for breakfast and feature brunch all day on Saturday and Sunday. I had the bacon and eggs special and had the crispiest bacon, fresh cut potato O’Brien mix special seasoning and whole wheat toast. The eggs were over medium to perfection and the mimosa totally made the Sunday brunch perfect. Highly recommend! Penny will serve your mimosa and Andrew/Wyze is one of the best waiters in town.

P.s. Two Bit Cafe carries a utah distilled absinthe. Heck ya step into moulin rouge and meet the green fairy. Andrew will do full presentation pouring over sugar cube for you. Check out photos for more.

Historic 25th Street - Ogden, Utah. Two Bit Street Cafe. Street Ogden Ogdendining.com streetogden.com

10/06/2023

Curry at was excellent. Especially with my lovely friend , realtor extraordinaire! we both agree that 2out5 was plenty spicy aka hot. 🌶️ 🥵

10/02/2023

Slackwater has butternut squash soup for autumn 🍂 menu. And it is delicious! Street Ogden. Slackwater.

10/01/2023

BISCUIT & HOGS in the junction serves breakfast all day with pancakes the size of a medium pizza. Known for their glazed huge bacon, hence hogs in the name. These flamingos 🦩 are a drink for two called Mango Mingo, a mimosa with mango flavoring! How about a flamingo for one? Ogden Junction

08/29/2023

TACO TACO has been one of my favorite restaurant for decades. Best Mexican food! They’ve been around for a few decades. Great story in that Pattys father was a reknown Mexican actor. He started the restaurant and his daughter Patty and her husband Ray ran it until he died a few years ago. What an awesome man he was and Patty is doing well enjoying retirement as she sold taco taco to one of her employees, Rosa, and now they continue in the traditions and great food.

I am an enchilada fanatic. Auerrlio, Rosa’s brother was my waiter and he is a friendly man. Rosa was on a vacation to Yellowstone. Lucky her a well deserved break to a great place.

The first thing served is fresh cooked home made chips with homemade salsa. It is my favorite salsa ever. Fresh as it’s made daily and perfect heat. Sometimes hotter and Ray would say the weather affects the jalapeño chiles heat. Dryer weather they are hotter. Makes sense to me. I always get two cheese and a chicken enchilada. Have enough to take home for a later meal. Perfect with a cold tecate. If you never visited you must! A local favorite!

08/09/2023

KAMIKAZES in ogden at 24th and Adams has the best Greek food! Pork souvlaki here with Greek lemon rice. And draft beer of course!

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07/16/2023

LUPITAS in ogden on Washington Blvd is a giant step into Mexican culture with food and decor straight from our friends south of the border. It was hard to decide what to order, but on a hot day chose a lighter entree.

I chose Taquitos rolled and filled with chicken and cooked to crispy perfection. Perfect for scooping up guacamole. Backed up with lettuce and tomatoes and covered with a mozzarella cheese. They have a salsa bar with multiple chiles to dip. The green was tasty and almost too hot for me. I took some homemade tamales and Tres leche cake home for later.

Three meals for just over ten bucks. Oh and a Mexican strawberry fruit popsicle for the ride home on this 100 degree day. Highly recommend.

I saw burritos on the table of other customers and they are huge!

Lupitas is located in the old piccolo brothers pizza restaurant there for decades. Lupitas 1303 Washington Blvd.

P.S. loony toons classic classic was the perfect addition to my dining experience. I am totally into classic cartoons!!! Takes me back to childhood as a the tamales my aunts and momma would make.

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07/13/2023

SENOR POLLO is one of those hidden treasures in Ogden that is right in our face every day, yer still elusive. Located prominently on the corner on the intersection of 12th Street and Washington Blvd. One of those intersections that we all speed by and look and say, “hey I’ll have to try that place someday.” Finally that day comes because you have a craving for authentic grilled chicken and homemade Mexican sides and this comes to mind, finally. You will be glad you did as I am.

They grill right there as you order. I got the half chicken which is two or three meals for twelve bucks. It comes with authentic homemade pinto beans, Spanish rice, salsa, tortillas, and topped with grilled onions and a huge grilled chile. The bag was heavy in weight. So tasty and healthy!

07/09/2023

Two Bit Street cafe on Historic 25th street has been one of my favorites for over twenty years. Not only so many great things on the menu but the history of ogden is dripping off the walls. And great personal service by Penny and team.

At one time it was notorious during the neon era and prohibition was in place. In the 80s the owner showed me the lever in the back of the bar where they could switch the flow from whiskey to seltzer if a raid was happening. The bootleg was well hidden in the basement. Back room and underground gambling were the mainstay back then and the club being the first stop after the union station was very popular. Allegedly Al Capone would come here and was friends of Pappas when two bit street as it was called back then, which was also often referred to as little Chicago. When the final raid happened on two bit street in the 1950s they found crated slot machines and roulette tables still packaged not even opened yet. My father in the sixties and seventies still called it ‘two bit street’ and ad we as trends were going downtown to play on Saturdays we were warned to NOT venture down there at all. When driving through we would lock the doors and watched the happenings and drive down red light alley, or electric alley as it was also known to see if hookers were still there. They were not. But always expect so El Burracho and Panchos on Lincoln avenue corners was a sight to behold and was regularly written up in papers for some kind of raid. That stigma is finally worn off after decades of renovation and pioneers paving the way to what it is now from the first renovations in early 80s until present. In 2001 the union square filled up the entire vacant block on south side of 100 block and that opened up the floor of vitality into anew and what I call serving Renaissance in ogden. The third is happening now! The first when I’m 84 the first seven renovated buildings were dedicated and rented. Now it is a hot, hopping, happening street with many restaurants, pubs and shops.

I first went in to the club as it has been known for decades when just 21 when Tom pappas the third owned it in the 1970s when 25th was still a bit skid rowish. Not a bit actually, a lot! Then because of a strange legal family deal where properties were split up after the passing of big daddy Tom Pappas the first, tom3rd moved up to the 200 block which is now brewskis and had his pub called PAPPY’S. That’s the one I hung out in the 80s. I spent a lot of time in the Club in the 80s and at pappys which were fun, as our publication Junction City News was just across the street in 107 25th from 1984-89. I heard many first hand stories from elder gentlemen of their days in the club during the 40s war era and beyond. I wish I video recorded them as these fellas are long gone now. But the oral stories live on. We did publish some stories in JCN which are safely stored at Weber State University library in the special collections. One day we’ll digitize them for the public.

The Club had different bar owners from then for over two decades, 1970s-2001, although still owned by the Pappas family.

Penny & James Dayley began “Two Bit Street Cafe” in 2001 just prior to the winter Olympics. The same time we began Street Ogden just up the street. They have been a local favorite since then with Penny in the kitchen and featuring her recipes.

I am stuck on their Greek spinach salad! OMG! I order it every time for twenty years. I’m like that I get stuck on a favorite at each restaurant and stick with it. I do need to get more adventurous. Get this! Fresh baby leaf spinach with spinach fettuccine on top with feta, Greek olives, purple onion, and topped with chicken or shrimp. Simple but complex blend of perfection. I usually do the grilled chicken but this time we had the shrimp. Omg again! The dressing is the key to the salad, just the right amount of everything. Penny told me once long ago what was in it and I’ve tried this recipe at home but not the same although still good. Hers is the original. It can be served up Vegan as well!

They are also known for panini sandwiches and breakfasts/Sunday brunch too among many other savory items. There have many items on the menu but these are what I always go for. Also try the fresh fruit sorbet that Penny makes. Watermelon is my favorite. Always local fruit in season. They are a local favorite with a steady and regular clientele.

James does hypnosis shows as well monthly when not touring. Oh and the backroom is available for gatherings and performances on their stage. They also participate in the first Friday Art Stroll so we got to see works by an incredible artist. Got to spend tour with one of my friends daughter and Mojos Ogden kids Amethyst who has officially joined the ogden team. Great times.

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Two Bit Street Cafe. Penny Allred-Dayley. James Dayley. Ron Joseph Atencio. Historic 25th Street - Ogden, Utah. Street Publishing. Amethyst Winter Sky Done. Ogden's First Friday Art Stroll.

06/07/2023

COFFEE LINKS on the river parkway, grant & park Blvd, has become one of my regular hangouts. It’s awesome with the neighborhood feel being in the middle of the river project development. They have regular customers a stream of people flow through. It has a comfortable vibe, friendly staff and very good coffee that they roast on the premises. They are open early but close early too at 3pm. I’m a late coffee drinker so wish they had later hours. But that’s okay, I’ve adjusted. They are my afternoon fix. I am a mocha fiend and love their Mayan mocha which is the only place that makes them rise have found. It’s like the original Mayan recipe who actually are the first cocoa makers. It has chile in the recipe. I think cayenne, just enough. It’s a nice flavor added to the espresso and chocolate. Not a hot just flavorful. Today I had their breakfast sandwich which is made on crispy croissant. So good. A nice tangy sauce to go with it with a choice of heat levels. I’ve had their fruit, oats and yogurt too. So good!

Check them out. They are also in south ogden on I-89 near where Harrison and Washington merges.

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06/06/2023

Angry Goat Pub & Kitchen was the perfect place to have an early dinner after a full day at the union station enjoying the tattoo convention last Sunday. Thankfully it is open on Sundays and I missed the brunch but got to enjoy the dinner menu. I chose something light. The BLT really caught my eye. It has an egg in it. Over medium. I’ve never seen that before. I lived on BLT sandwiches as a kid. This took me back. My bartender and waiter Chase also recommended it. Said it is a lighter meal especially compared to the hamburgers. It came with a choice of sides and I went with the salad. I’m glad I did. They make their dressing homemade and the bleu cheese was amazing. Thick with chunks of this savory cheese. Mixed greens and plenty of tomatoes and cucumbers and shredded fresh carrot was satisfying. The sandwich was on a special light bun and avocado spread really made it. Lotsa protein in this sandwich. I sat in the corner at the bar so got to watch Chase make one of the specialty drinks. I’ve never seen this before. He lights a chunk of white oak from a whiskey vat then places the glass on top to capture the smoke. Then a margarita is made with grand Mariner and specialty tequilas. He said that the smoke gives it an added flavor. I opted for a draft, one of their Ambers as I was craving a brew after a long day. I’m coming back just for that margarita drink.

The atmosphere is comfortable and open and Chase said that an Irish pub is what they had in mind. It does have that feel with over 300 beers on the menu. They have sidewalk seating and soon to open roof top. Right in the middle of downtown ogden. I highly recommend! I’ll be back soon!

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05/26/2023

Stella’s Italian restaurant on historic 25th street was amazing! I am a lasagne snob and this was one of the best I’ve ever had. Baked in a bowl. Flavorful tomato sauce, very fine chopped meat with tasty el dente lasagna pasta with plenty of mozzarella melted on top. The tomato bisque so yummy with a chile spice but not too hot. Bread sticks served with olive oil and balsamic. My friend had fettuccini chicken and loved it. I’ll try it next time. The atmosphere in large space open and high ceilings. I reminisced the many Chinese meals since the 70s at Star Noodle Parlor. Great renovation by Thaine Fischer and company. Highly recommend! Stellas on 25th.

05/21/2023

Korene Greenwood rocking Sunday brunch this afternoon at Lighthouse Lounge. She’s a local legend and has all the great songs with her unique vocal and guitar style. Love Korene, my dear friend for decades!

Amazing eggs Benedict as well. They are known for their Sunday brunch bloody Mary’s and fresh squeezed orange juice mimosas. Check it out!

Lighthouse Lounge Korene Greenwood

05/20/2023

OTECH aka OWTC in Ogden. Our local trade college has a hidden secret. Well, not to the students and professors but to the general public.

Their culinary dept prepares a daily special every day. Today they offered salmon baked to perfection, rice with poppy seeds, on a bed of baby spinach with zucchini, broccoli, sweet potato and sauté onions on the side. All for six bucks! Let me repeat! SIX BUCKS! That’s a twenty buck meal at fine diners. I had veggie soup with chicken on the side with homemade biscuits. I got three meals from this deal. Each day is different but always six bucks. Open to the public.

05/20/2023

UTOG in ogden between 23rd & 24th and Grant served up some good food to myself and a friend. Soup and salad with sweet potato fries were delicious and all we needed for a healthy lunch.

Soup was a tomato bisque with a little spicy pepper and shaved fresh Parmesan. The salad was on a chunk of iceberg lettuce topped with blue cheese and sun dried tomatoes. Highly recommend!