A highly visible restaurant at the corner of 700 East and 2100 South in Sugar House has closed, according to multiple sources.
By the Bucket: Hot Spaghetti to Go, at 701 E. 2100 South in Salt Lake City, was closed as of Saturday, according to a post on X by Bryant Heath, an electrical engineer who chronicles Salt Lake City’s urban growth on his social media accounts.
Heath posted a photo of a sign on the restaurant’s front door, which read: “By the Bucket closed for business. God bless. Thank you for your patronage.”
A phone call placed to the restaurant Monday morning wasn’t answered, and the location doesn’t appear to have any social media accounts.
The restaurant’s menu consisted of small, “middle” and “family”-size “buckets” of pasta, and customers could could pick their sauce and protein to go on top; as well as subs, garlic bread, salads and desserts, according to a photo posted on X by Salt Lake Tribune sporswriter and columnist Andy Larsen when he tried By the Bucket in 2023. (Larsen wrote that his visit was “somewhat disappointing.”)
According to a photo posted on X by Heath, the Salt Lake City location also specialized in mushroom lattes meant to be a substitute for coffee, as well as breakfast, served until 4 p.m. daily.
The Salt Lake City restaurant was a franchise of a business based in Arizona. As of Monday morning, the Sugar House location has been removed from the business’s website.