The Mayan Restaurant
I have been traveling to Budapest with Natalie and my younger brother, Kevin to meet the rest of my family. I haven’t slept since authoring yesterday’s email.
Fortunately, I am ready to crash and zonk out and see if I can get over jet lag using some of our Stack vitamin that is having great results reported for helping with sleep. (See photos below)
One of the subjects we talked about at the airport was a restaurant that used to be in South Salt Lake Valley called the Mayan. Who ate there? There were live performances and divers jumping off cliffs into a small pool below.
It was the only dinning experience I’ve seen like this. I am wondering what shut it down and what we can do to bring in back.
Here is the photo below and an article that captured the vibe well. Who is going to bring it back?
PS. My brother David just said the Mayan was inspired by a Colorado experience call Casa Bonita that is similar in Lakewood.
Happy 4:20
Scott Paul
I can’t believe you brought this up!! I think about this restaurant a lot!! I have faint memories from my childhood going there and being kinda scared. It just disappeared!!
I think Utah wasn’t ready for the cool experience at the time, but I bet now it would do a lot better! It was a cool unique place!
I'm wondering why we don't have restaurants with more experiences. Anyone remember the old Hawaiian restaurant? I tried to take my granddaughter to the Children's Museum today, but it is closed on Tuesdays. I feel like there were many more places to take my kids when they were young, and yet Salt Lake is much bigger now. More miniature golf, more jungle jims, hollywood connection, and the fun dome. Is it the profit margin everyone must make now? Is it large businesses buying up land and retail and raising rent to exorbitant prices? Does it all go they way of Jackson Hole Wyoming? I go to small towns and it seems like they have more. Definitely more charm.