Kitty Pappas, who for almost 75 years ran the kitchen of the iconic Woods Cross steakhouse that bore her name and served big hunks of sirloin and slices of cake, has died.
Kitty Pappas, the owner and cook of the The Kitty Pappas Steak House in Woods Cross, in 2012.of the iconic Woods Cross steakhouse that bore her name and served big hunks of sirloin and slices of cake, has died.
“It’s a way of life. Why would I quit now?,” Pappas told The Salt Lake Tribune in September 2012, when she was 83 and the restaurant marked its 65th year in business. “She didn’t write anything down,” George said, “so they were always a little bit different, other than the standards, like chocolate cake. She made a phenomenal coconut cake, a cherry nut cake that was phenomenal, a pineapple cake — well, they were all phenomenal.”
The kitchen was too small to fit a dishwasher, George said. When she interviewed kids for dishwashing jobs, her son said, they would look around and ask where the dishwasher was. She would laugh, George said, and say, “You don’t understand, son — you’re the dishwasher.” A year after they were married, Johnny Pappas — without consulting Kitty — bought the Scenic Inn, at 2300 Highway 89 in Woods Cross. They renamed it Johnny Pappas Steak House, and opened on September 17, 1947. Johnny, who had worked as a cook during the war, ran the kitchen, and Kitty donned a white-collared waitress uniform and waited tables.
A few years later, Kitty and Johnny had their first child, MaryAnn, and Kitty declared she was going to quit waiting tables to take care of the baby. Johnny built a house attached to the restaurant, so Kitty could watch the baby but jump in to help keep the restaurant going. Two sons, John Jr. and George, came after MaryAnn.
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