Market Street Grill, Salt Lake City (SLC) Airport, UT

Back in Park City hitting the slopes – and absolutely loving it. My annual trip, I had skipped last year due to the birth of my son, the first year missed in a decade. 2 years ago the snow was so terrible I was skiing on rocks, 3 years ago the snow was so magnificent I was skiing through waist deep powder.

And this year, this year was lovely – not a ton of powder, but beautiful snow and excellent conditions. I loved reminiscing about my many trips to Park City over the years while I relaxed in the Delta Sky Club at Salt Lake City airport, looking at photos and videos of incredible runs down splendid slopes.

Instead of leaving on my typical morning flight, I chose the evening one, ensuring I could get some final turns in before my departure. Totally worth it, and I didn’t even care that my flight was delayed 90 minutes and wouldn’t arrive into Boston untl 1:30am. With all that said, I grew sick of the Delta Sky Club food quite quickly, and navigated through the airport to find something that would hold me over during this nighttime flight.

Even though my flight was running late, I lost track of time writing emails, and ended up ordering takeout from Market Street Grill, just across from the entrance to the Delta Sky Club. Market Street passed the credibility test when I Googled their restaurant and saw it was a somewhat respectable chain, and not just an establishment milking airport passengers. Their clubhouse sandwich caught my eye, with 0 deviation from the traditional list of ingredients one might expect, and I ordered just in time to hop on my flight to Boston.

Mid-flight, while watching The White Lotus, I opened the box.

Terrible presentation, one would laugh at why they included a toothpick in this. This obviously produced abysmal holdability. Just a terribly “sandwiched” meal. Literally, they couldn’t have done worse. I would say “to go” probably isn’t their style and is something they should avoid, but it’s an airport restaurant, fairly unavoidable.

The ingredients themselves weren’t exactly the worst, I guess. Rich, nicely toasted wheat bread. Ripe and juicy tomato. Thick cut bacon you never see at an airport… but an excessive amount of bacon. A heart attack inducing amount of bacon. I get it, it’s bacon, but even though this was decent airport bacon, Market Street should not have made it the center of attention. The wet turkey complimented nothing about this sandwich, and it made me think Market Street would have been better off just making this a bacon club sandwich with no turkey.

I ate as much as I could stomach, enjoyed some of the coleslaw, and switched my attention back to my can of red wine and mini-bag of sun chips while I consumed more of The White Lotus.

This was my first time flying Delta domestically in almost 2 years, and I do have to admit one positive thing about the flight home: Delta is a solid airline, and a good product. I was impressed. Will I fly Delta again? Since there aren’t a lot of routes out of Boston to fly Delta on, I don’t think I’ll have the chance, but we’ll see where life takes me in 2023…