Nestled within a modern and cheery dining room at the center of St. Regis's Deer Crest Ski Resort, acclaimed chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten brings a comfortable gourmet dining room to Utah's chicest ski mountain. Equal parts hotel eatery and swanky destination for local foodies, visitors arrive to a stunning design space of tumbled stone walls and two-sided fireplace dividing the main eatery from a sleek private dining room overlooking Deer Hollow ski run and Uinta Mountain. The dining room isn't your usual super-sized hotel eatery, just 75-seats in the main dining opening to a slope-side patio available for apres-ski addicts and summertime mountain trekkers.
The Food
Spin-off dining rooms of legendary chefs are often hit and miss. Alain Ducasse manages to do it well with outposts at the Plaza Athenee and TheHotel Las Vegas while others (Puck, Mina) fail to maintain food quality or plain popularity. Vongerichten falls into the first category, with a line-up of stellar eateries debuting at several W Hotels and now St. Regis properties worldwide. A good chef helps, which he has found in Matt Harris who acts as Chef de Cuisine at J&G Grill following a successful opening of Market Buckhead in Atlanta. The menu is heavier than you would expect of a resort hotel, seizing the local sourced beef and vegetable markets while satiating hungry skiers with heavy-handed portions of grilled meats, pastas, seafood and array of daytime sandwiches and salads to keep visitors from ever heading into Park City to eat �" or at least for a few days.
Last Word
An open-style kitchen is equipped with a stove-side dining area where guests can request private cooking instruction or just watch and enjoy the Jean-Georges prodigies do their own thing.
