New restaurant opens in GR

Grace doesn't want her restaurant to look like a restaurant.

She wants it to look like home. She wants her guests to be at "home" in her home, she said. Grace Yeager opened the doors to her new restaurant "A Taste of Grace" on Uinta Drive, on Memorial Day.

The element of home is an important element to Yeager's restaurant, her home. A taste of Grace means the recipes used at the restaurant are her own recipes from home. The restaurant is essentially a sandwich shop specializing in paninis.

"I've been a house wife for years. We're taking what I make from my home oven to the commercial oven," she said. "It's a taste of my cooking from my home."

Her specialty sandwiches have been a hit with her kids, the soccer team and events for years. One of the kids' favorites is her meatball sandwich with her homemade giant meatball recipe. A pan full could feed a soccer team and often has before, she said.

Her favorite sandwich she makes and is also featured at the restaurant, is the Moto Moto, or hot hot. It's her spicy beef sandwich made with jalapeños.

Her food, she said is sure to make one's mouth water, which is reason enough for her logo; giant red lips with a salivating tongue.

"We wanted a delicious mouth-watering mouth because the sandwiches are supposed to be mouth-watering delicious and that's what the mouth represents," she said.

The miniature crown atop the logo represents the service her guests will receive at her restaurant, she said.

"The crown on the Grace is supposed to be the royal taste of grace, because we're going to give royal service here," Yeager said. "Everything is about the royalty of what Grace wants to serve everybody, and I want to give royal customer service to my customers."

Yeager's ultimate goal for her restaurant is to carry a Food Network brand. To get to that point, she said you have to have good food, good location, good company, good atmosphere and royalty customer service.

Yeager has been a Wyoming girl for many years throughout her life and has lived in Green River for six of them most recently. Her younger roots though, take her back to Las Vegas.

"Cooking is important to me," she said. "I'm from Vegas; everything is big. Why not go big."

Yeager wasn't going to go as big as a restaurant at first though; she simply thought of opening up a sandwich food truck. It was then, over nine months ago that John Anastos suggested opening up her restaurant at it's location in the soon to be vacant building he owns on Uinta Drive, where Treasures Antiques used to be.

"We need more business in Green River," Anastos said. "She was interested in bringing a business to Green River and so we tried to open the door to give her the opportunity to provide the service to Green River that we need. We need another business on this side of town."

It's been an uphill venture since then for the Yeager family with over nine months of construction, planning and a few headaches and back aches here and there, and their dream baby of a restaurant is finally open.

"We put our best foot forward in this place," her husband Russ Yeager said. "We put a lot of thought into this. We're very passionate about what we do."

 

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