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Showing posts with label the Grand America. Show all posts

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Lobby Lounge at Grand America



Our fab mommy-daughter weekend continues at the Grand America wandering around drilling on math facts (tiger mom), scribbling on fancy Moleskine notebooks and snacking on yummy bites. The Lobby Lounge located right in the lobby serves Continental Breakfast 6am-10am, Afternoon Tea 2pm-5pm and coffee and cocktails throughout the day until midnight.
Fruit Bowl, Bagel and Fresh OJ.
This is real, REAL fresh orange juice (as in juice from actual oranges) containing the ideal level of pulpy, sweet, sour, ice cold juice. Between the two of us, we guzzled three 12 oz glasses.
Our prepackaged fruit was crisp, freshly cut and sugary ripe.
What a gorgeous slab of curvy marble. Can you imagine crisp crackling heat when this fireplace roars?
Glass chandeliers, all over the place,  were huge, plentiful, modern, clean, whimsical and classic.
Enormous floral displays, more light fixtures, fine drapes and rugs, marble hallways, rich Euro decor, romance muted lighting, crown molding, dome ceilings, all the gold...
555 South Main Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Reservations 1-800-304-8696

The Garden Cafe at The Grand America...breakfast buffet



If you are in the mood for something beautiful, fancy and delicious, check out The Garden Cafe at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City. Don't bother with the menu because the Breakfast Buffet is really the only the way to go.
First trip to the buffet... yogurt parfait, sausage, fruit, cold cuts, french toast, lox and capers, oatmeal. Expect the Garden Cafe to carry every possible breakfast-type of food.
Second trip to buffet... more mortadella, fresh fruit, lox, oatmeal and an impressive eggwhite omelet. All the food was good and the cut fruit stayed crisp, not stale.
The omelet station had no line! The eggwhite omelet was most impressivelight, fluffy, intensely flavorful and perfectly cooked! Eggwhites were tossed in spinach, onion, tomato and garlic. 
Hubby ate buckets of fruit and berries.
LOVE our Grand America room...
Textiles galore! Perfectly balanced palate of stripes, florals and patterns adorn the curtains, walls, chairs, sofas, cushions...
Open some double French doors to the bedroom.
Stripey wallpaper, fancy white crown molding, gold framed matted pictures of bouquets, very Jane Austen-esque.
Heavy and smooth bathrobes await. Sweet.
Bedtime chocolates.
Every corner find more wallpaper patterns, colors, off-white crown molding, door trim....
Marble floors, counter, bath walls and shower tiles. Love the contrast of rich and bold next to green and white vertical striped wallpaper.
Vanity sink nook is super classy cute. Pink wallsseriously?!
Okay, check out the green floral carpet hitting the white floor trim, then striped pink wallpaper. Insane! Sick!
White-grey marble, clean white grout, brass accessoriesall in sparkling condition. 
Dig the wallpaper hitting the marble?!
Hold upcurtain meets wallpaper, base molding and carpet!
555 South Main Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Reservations 1-800-304-8696
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La Bonne Vie at the Grand America Hotel



La Bonne Vie is a super sweet dessert boutique located inside the elegant Grand America Hotel, specializing in all things luxuriously girly! Miriam and I bonded over a fancy mommy-daughter weekend doing what we love most: drawing and surrounding ourselves with beautiful and delicious things :) Where else would our first stop be but La Bonne Vie?!
Dainty, immaculate, GLORIOUS desserts including some of the best gelato.
Check out the awesome window displays of meticulous white paper construction...the razor sharp clean scissor cuts, sharp folds, invisible precise glue application...
Couldn't resist leaving without a set of super cute candles (disguised as a dish of mini desserts) and a designer cupcake kit, of course!
"This is the BEST lemon gelato EVERRRRRR!!!" claims Miriam.
La Bonne Vie at the Grand America Hotel
(801) 258-6554
555 South Main Street 
Salt Lake City, UT 84111