Anniversary flowers in Salt Lake City

Downtown is the other half of the anniversary map and it is genuinely compact — five walkable blocks hold most of it. The Grand America Hotel at 555 South Main Street is the city's luxury anchor, a full city block of it, and the standard room-delivery target for a milestone night; the Little America Hotel faces it across 500 South. Kimpton Hotel Monaco at 15 West 200 South occupies the old Continental Bank building and is the boutique choice. The Hyatt Regency at 170 South West Temple and the Salt Lake Marriott Downtown at City Creek on the same street carry the convention-adjacent volume from the Salt Palace, and the Sheraton on West 500 South, the Hilton Salt Lake City Center on South West Temple and the Radisson on West South Temple fill in around them. The Peery Hotel on West 300 South has been operating since 1910 and is the historic-room option. Asher Adams, in the restored Union Pacific Depot at the west end of South Temple, is the newest of them. Up on the foothills, the Salt Lake City Marriott University Park on Wakara Way in Research Park is the quiet bench-side option near the university. Every one of these takes a room delivery through the front desk or the bell stand, and the front desk needs a guest name plus either a confirmed check-in date or a room number — a hotel will not hold an arrangement for a reservation it cannot find.

The restaurant hand-off is the other pattern worth planning. Salt Lake's anniversary dining splits between downtown and the canyon mouths. Downtown: Takashi on Market Street, Valter's Osteria on West Broadway, The Copper Onion on East Broadway, Current Fish and Oyster on East 300 South, Market Street Grill, Bambara inside the Hotel Monaco, and Spencer's for Steaks and Chops in the Hilton. Up and out: Log Haven in Millcreek Canyon, Ruth's Diner in Emigration Canyon — open since 1930 and the city's most durable date-night institution — La Caille at the mouth of Little Cottonwood in Sandy, and Tuscany on the Holladay side. A restaurant delivery works best when the flowers are dropped to the host stand an hour before the reservation with the reservation name on the card, so the table is set rather than the bouquet handed over mid-course. It works less well than most people expect: many Salt Lake kitchens are small and have nowhere to keep an arrangement, and a bouquet carried through a three-course dinner and then a drive home in a February car is in worse shape than one that was waiting at the house. The highest-success anniversary order in this city is a morning delivery to the home, before the evening plan starts.