The Salt Lake Tribune
Downtown Salt Lake City’s newest luxury hotel features four drink and dining options — all meant to evoke train travel in some way, and all now open to the public.
The Asher Adams hotel’s theme makes sense, given its located partly in the historic Union Pacific Depot. There’s the coffee shop, Counterpart; the restaurant, Rouser; and two bars called The Bar at Asher Adams and No. 119, all situated inside the 2 S. 400 West property.
An adaptive reuse project that kicked off adjacent to The Gateway shopping center in 2021, the new-but-old hotel opened officially on Nov. 7 with a ribbon cutting. Asher Adams is named for John R. Asher and George H. Adams, cartographers who depicted railroad routes in “meticulous” detail, according to the Osher Map Library.
Asher Adams is made up of two buildings — a new 225-room guest “tower,” located just behind the Union Pacific Depot, and the depot itself, which has been carefully restored down to its stained glass, oil-on-canvas murals, and cracks in the original tile flooring.
When the depot was completed in 1909, its trains would take new Latter-day Saint missionaries away on their proselytizing missions, and whisk workers off to their jobs. After the building stopped operating as a train depot in 1986, its grand hall was used for a variety of purposes, including weddings and art exhibitions.
Now, Asher Adams’ cafe, restaurant and bars all pay homage to train travel. The four culinary concepts were first conceived by the Davidson Restaurant Group.
“Food and beverage is very much at the forefront of what this hotel is all about,” said Zachary Lippincott, director of food and beverage.
Learn more about the 4 unique Food & Beverage concepts at Asher Adams here.
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