This article is excerpted from the Utah Eats newsletter, compiled by Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune’s food and drink reporter. To get the full newsletter in your inbox every Wednesday, become a subscriber by going to sltrib.com/newsletters.
Hello, Eaters!
Last weekend I took a trip south to Torrey, Utah, where I met in person the good folks at Etta Place Cider, did some muddy hiking in Capitol Reef National Park, drove the famous (and terrifying) Hogback in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and — most importantly — ate a lot of delicious food.
Before we got to Torrey, we stopped for lunch in rural Bicknell, along State Route 24 in Wayne County, at the original Curry Pizza.
Before Bhinda Singh founded Curry Pizza in Bicknell in 2017, the business was another pizza place. Singh stopped there to get a drink when he was traveling through town in his motorhome, and received poor service, he said. Seeing that the restaurant was for sale, he decided to buy the place, and opened it without knowing how to make pizza, he said.
But he had Indian restaurants in Provo and South Jordan at the time, he said, and a friend suggested that Singh just “marry” pizza and Indian food. So he went on a cross-country odyssey to study curry pizza, trying the food in 36 states until he figured out how he wanted to make it.
Now Singh owns five locations of Curry Pizza, plus India Palace in Provo. The Bicknell location — which has the episode of Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” that features Curry Pizza playing constantly on one of the TVs — is still serving tasty pizza to hungry travelers.
We dug into the butter chicken pizza (more on that below). If you’re driving through Bicknell, make sure you stop at Curry Pizza.
Live deliciously,
Kolbie
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