Located right off of Highway 12, which is scenic (and amazing by the way), it’s on the same highway that goes to both Capitol Reef and Bryce Canyon National Parks. The restaurant is rustic chic, and the only dining is outside for right now. They serve ingredients fresh, or they preserve them by freezing it, drying it or using it in another way to make sure each bit is used. They have chickens to provide eggs for meals, greenhouses for when the weather gets cooler, and they grow near to 20,000 pounds of produce in a year. The fruit comes from Boulder’s heirloom orchards, and meat from local ranchers. Produce includes veggies, fruits, herbs, flowers and greens. They serve organic, locally produced, regional and seasonally appropriate ingredients, growing much of their produce on their own 6 acre farm. This woman owned restaurant operates using Buddhist principles: commitment to sustainability, environmental ethics, and community responsibility. Hell’s Backbone Grill & Farm, is located in Boulder, Utah, population 400 (in 2020). Over two decades ago, Jen Castle and Blake Spalding had a wild idea to open up an ethical and locally based destination restaurant in one of the most remote towns in America. If you are in the area between Capitol Reef and Bryce Canyon, stop in for dinner to have our same experience!
We got to enjoy a fantastic f arm-to-table meal after a day of hiking in the surrounding rock formations under those wide open Utah skies. "It’s an honor and a privilege, and we want to continue doing it, for as long as we possibly can.This post contains affiliate links for products that we think you as readers might find useful, and we make commission off of these! For more details about our affiliates, click our Disclosure and Contacts Page. And we love the work we do, growing and preparing and serving beautiful food in a beautiful location to you beautiful people," Spalding and Castle wrote. "We love you, and we love our restaurant, our monument, the town, and our amazing team. As of Tuesday afternoon, the page had raised nearly $140,000. The duo set a goal of raising $324,000, a nod that the number is three times 108, a scared number in Buddhism. The restaurant received pandemic-related loans to weather the downturn, but turned to borrowing more money after a "shockingly slow summer visitation year" to make payments on the loan. But for us to all get there, we need a whole lot of help," the founders wrote. And we’re hopeful that you’ll walk through those doors with us, hand in hand. "We remain optimistic for a new chapter that’s brighter than we could have imagined. Hell's Backbone currently rents its location and has done so for 23 years, while the restaurant staff say they constantly deal with broken equipment that "needs fixing," the page reads. On a GoFundMe page started by Spalding and Castle, the restaurant's co-chefs cited three areas of need: Debt payment, permanent home and infrastructure support.
Hell's Backbone Grill and Farm was nominated last year in the Outstanding Restaurant category by the James Beard Awards, according to Gastronomic SLC. The owners of Hell's Backbone Grill and Farm near Boulder say rising costs and lower crowds in the summer has forced them to start a fundraising effort to remain in business.īlake Spalding and Jen Castle opened the restaurant in 2000, and since then have garnered national recognition.
BOULDER, Utah - One of Utah's most highly-rated restaurants is in danger of permanently closing, going so far as to ask for help in keeping its doors open.
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