The menu at Neutral Ground features traditional New Orleans dishes like red beans and rice and jambalaya, as well as chef John Belvin’s take on traditional foods like fried green tomatoes — his version is served with tomato jam and smoked remoulade sauce.
, in reference to a median on Canal Street — the demarcation line between the city’s Anglo and French Creole districts.
Belvin landed in Utah last November through one of his private sports clients, who wanted to open a restaurant here. Before moving to Utah, he lived in San Antonio and New Orleans, working as a restaurant consultant and traveling private chef, including cooking for vacationing families and for bachelorette parties. “You name it, I’ve probably done it,” he said.
Belvin has been in the kitchen since landing in Salt Lake City, with his menu available for online ordering and takeout, construction permitting. The physical restaurant and lounge — at 2110 W. North Temple, in an area surrounded by airport-adjacent hotels — will open around April 20, he said. With the food, he said, “I wanted to bring a different flavor — a Southern flavor” that would bring New Orleans to Salt Lake in a way that Utahns could connect with.
Chef John Belvin Jr.'s Cajun Pasta dish with sausage, crab, shrimp in a creamy cajun sauce served with penne pasta, Mar. 10, 2022. Belvin's New Orleans themed-restaurant Neutral Ground Lounge will be open for dining April 2022 and is serving meals curb-side and delivery now. Once fully open, he said, “we’ll be doing just strictly Sunday brunches. But it’s going to be very different. It’s going to be New Orleans style. We may have a DJ there, just some good music.”
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