Yutopia Revisited
For the most recent Smells Like Yukon segment, Mark and Jesse paid a visit to the Yutopia Bar & Grill located at the corner of fourth and Main in downtown Whitehorse. There, they talked to a handful of patrons about the Yukon and whether or not it qualified as a Yutopia. And somehow, they then managed to turn this brief research into a radio story that lasted almost seven minutes, not to mention a “Behind the Sounds” account that ran on waaaaaaaaaay toooooooooooo looooooooooong.
You’d think that, somewhere in all that writing, they might have at least mentioned the quality of the food or the state of the bathrooms in Yutopia. But no, Mark and Jesse completely overlooked these things.
However, Mark returned to Yutopia today for the first time and was pleased to report that the food was excellent. His LDCs (Lovely Dining Companions) from the Flipper Lunch Club generally concurred. In this Yutopia there’s a place for something called an Eggplant Burger, which was apparently quite good. Perhaps the most intriguing menu option was a $22 item called the Yutopian Manwich featuring beef, chicken and… wait for it… pork. Unfortunately, a spending cap prevented Mark from making child’s play out of the Manwich.
Mark was equally impressed by the friendly service from Len (who didn’t seem to remember him from their interview) and the cleanly state of the washroom, which may have had something to do with the fact that none of the other Flipper Lunch Club members got in there before him.
At this point, we’d like to state for the record that Smells Like Yukon did not receive any sort of kickback for providing this favourable “review” of Yutopia, unlike a certain other Yukonish publication we could mention but won’t… because we have class.