Best Bakery
1. Kneaders
2. Enliten Bakery and Café
3. Shirley’s
Best Barbecue
1. Bam Bams BBQ
(Find out what Founder Cameron Treu’s most embarrassing moment in business has been. Hint: It involves Detroit Lions’ Ziggy Ansah.)
2. Wallabys Smokehouse
3. Madera Smokehouse
Best Casual Restaurant
1. Marley’s Gourmet Sliders
2. Good Thyme
3. Art City Trolley
Best Caterer
1. BYU Catering
2. Magleby’s Wedding & Catering
3. Marvellous Catering
Best Chinese Restaurant
1. Green Panda Café
2. Wild Ginger
3. Shoots
Roll With It is a new ice cream place inside of Good Thyme, the second-place winner of Best Casual Restaurant. (Photo by Alisha Gallagher)
Best Desserts
1. Roll With It
2. The Chocolate
3. Taste
Best Drinks
1. Sodalicious
2. Swig
3. Jamba Juice
Best Locally Owned Fast Food
1. Chick-fil-A
2. JCW’s
3. Culver’s
Best Dining
1. Ruby River
2. Tree Room Restaurant
3. Black Sheep Café
Best Food Truck
1. Marley’s Gourmet Sliders
2. Waffle Love
3. Milos Tacos
Best Fresh Mexican
1. Café Rio
2. Costa Vida
3. El Azteca
Best Classical Mexican
1. Oteo
2. La Casita
3. Mama Chus
Best Italian
1. Oregano
2. Carrabba’s
3. Olive Garden
Best Japanese/Sushi
1. Happy Sumo
2. Tepanyaki Japanese Steakhouse
3. Pho Plus
Best Pizza
1. Pizzeria Seven Twelve
2. Two Jacks Pizza
3. Brick Oven
Kneaders takes the cake — or at least the sandwiches — in this year’s Best of Utah Valley contest. The company won the Best Bakery, Best Sandwiches and Delis, and took third for Best Salad.
Best Sandwiches and Delis
1. Kneaders
2. Jimmy John’s
3. Sensuous Sandwich
Best Salad
1. Café Rio
2. Zupas
3. Kneaders
Best Eastern Asian Food (Indian and Thai)
1. Bombay House
2. Thai Drift
3. Thai Village
Snow Shack
1. Hokulia Shave Ice
2. Lucky’s
3. Lani’s
I would have to add that Oishii Sushi in Orem is one of the best sushi restaurants in Utah Valley as well! Their online menu is awesome at http://oishiisushiorem.com