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A European café, ten minutes from downtown

Plated Dreams is owned and run by Angie and Chris Amundsen. For years they collected favorite cafés across Europe, the kind where a coffee turns into an afternoon. When the last unit in their Woods Cross development came open, Angie decided not to lease it to someone else's restaurant. She'd open her own.

The doors opened in August 2022 with a short menu, a long wish list and a room that looked like nothing else along Highway 89: chandeliers hung from a deep green ceiling, three arched walls of silk roses lit with neon script, dusty-pink booths, emerald velvet chairs and a pastry counter cut from pink marble.

The food caught up fast. Benedicts, a croque madame that became the signature, pink velvet pancakes, a wagyu burger and a smash burger that wears an edible dollar bill. Coffee from Idle Hands Roasting Co. in Salt Lake. A full bar, the first in Woods Cross City, pouring spritzes and espresso martinis from late morning. Two OpenTable Diners' Choice awards later, the wish list is shorter.

Everything is made to order, so it takes a minute. We think that's the point.