Since opening inside Grid City Beer Works back in early 2025, Drunken Kitchen has been one of the most unique restaurants in Salt Lake with a focus on food you can’t find anywhere else in Utah. Weekends fill up fast. People drive in from Provo. Some come down from Wyoming. The handmade dan dan noodles and potstickers have earned a following, and Tim Rammell was named one of the best chefs in Salt Lake City. There is just one thing the full service restaurant has never been able to offer: a seat to anyone under 21.
That changes on June 29th. Drunken Kitchen is converting to a full-service restaurant license, and for the first time, the whole family can come in. The restaurant will maintain a 21+ only patio bar upstairs and will still service a full bar across the entire restaurant with their Asian inspired cocktails.
To mark the occasion and celebrate this next chapter, the restaurant is running a Family Welcome Deal for the first week June 29th - July 5th. For $75, guests get one appetizer, two entrees, one kids’ entree, one vegetable side, one dessert, and free fountain drinks.
(Drunken Kitchen, sponsored) | Drunken Kitchen in Salt Lake City was created by brothers Tim and Joe Rammell with a mission to provide a second home to customers using bold flavors inspired from the Chinese food & Taiwanese food of their childhood.
A Bold American Twist on Chinese and Taiwanese Food
Tim Rammell grew up with food in his hands. Born in China and raised in Taiwan, he was adopted at age ten along with his younger brother Joe by a family from Jackson, Wyoming. Their parents had planned to adopt one child but would not separate the brothers.
Tim started cooking young. “I started learning how to make potstickers from my auntie in Taiwan when I was six or seven,” he said. “That stuck with me. I always knew I wanted to do something in the culinary world.” His father taught him to hunt and butcher. He spent his teenage years in Wyoming kitchens. After high school, he moved to Seattle and cooked across a dozen cuisines, including a stretch at a gastropub that received a James Beard Award nomination in 2018. Joe joined him in Seattle in 2018 and the two worked side by side until they both moved to Salt Lake City in 2021.
The food at Drunken Kitchen is Tim & Joe’s take on the flavors they grew up with, filtered through years of American kitchen training. The dan dan noodles and potstickers are handmade daily. The beef noodle soup takes three days to make, built on a bone broth of beef and chicken. “We don’t hold back,” Tim said. “People in Utah are used to mild flavors. I wanted to challenge that.”
From a One Night Pop Up to Best Potsticker in Utah
Drunken Kitchen launched as a one-day-a-week pop-up out of Square Kitchen, a shared incubator space in Salt Lake City. The brothers prepped on Thursdays and sold food on Fridays while working full time jobs. “It was exhausting,” Tim said. “But it felt right.” Word spread quickly, and demand pushed them into a larger food hall setup. That filled up too.
Then the owners of Grid City Beer Works stopped by to eat. Impressed, they offered the brothers the chance to take over bar and food operations at their South Salt Lake brewery. The brewery would keep making beer. Drunken Kitchen would run the restaurant & bar. It was the space the concept had been waiting for.
Drunken Kitchen opened at Grid City in early 2025. Reservations fill up on weekends. The accolades came fast: Best Potsticker in Utah, and Tim recognized as one of Salt Lake’s best chefs.
(Drunken Kitchen, sponsored) | The food at Drunken Kitchen is Tim & Joe’s take on the flavors they grew up with, filtered through years of American kitchen training.
What Tim Says About Welcoming In Families
For Tim, the restaurant license is about more than a permit change. “Drunken Kitchen was always meant to be a second home for our customers” he said. “A place where you walk in and feel like you belong. That was hard to do when we had to turn families away at the door.”
The all-ages license has been a goal since day one. “We want grandparents, we want kids, we want the whole table. Food brings people together and that only works if everyone can show up.” Tim sees the June 29th transition as the restaurant finally becoming what it was always supposed to be.
“We worked every single day to make this happen,” Tim said. “It’s not just a restaurant. This is the American dream. We are so proud that people are willing to come from all over and try our food. Now we just want more of them at the table.”
Family Welcome Deal: First Week Only
June 29th - July 5th, Drunken Kitchen is offering the following deal for families during the first week of all-ages dining:
• 1 Appetizer
• 2 Entrees
• 1 Kids’ Entree
• 1 Vegetable Side
• 1 Dessert
• Free Fountain Drinks
All for $75.
Our address is 333 west 2100 South, South Salt Lake, Utah 84115 inside of Grid City Beer Works building.