Taste 117
Brunch · Provo · 117 N University Ave
Taste 117 is filed here as brunch because that is the page this site first named it on, and that filing undersells it considerably: it is a chocolate shop, a tasting room and a tea service that also serves lunch.
Where it is
At 117 North University Avenue, one block north of Center Street on the avenue our downtown guide treats as the spine of central Provo eating. The room is a converted historic space with a large skylight.
Provo addresses are grid references rather than house numbers in the usual sense: they count outward from the origin at Center Street and University Avenue, one hundred to a block. Our guide to how Utah addresses actually work explains why the same number means a different place in the next city over.
What we know about it
The chocolate is made on site, and the business runs tours of the making of it. Alongside that it does a seated afternoon tea, cheese and chocolate tastings, and fondue evenings, and it rotates the food menu with the seasons rather than holding one card all year. It is a women-owned business and it carries one of the higher review counts of any independent room in downtown Provo, across several hundred of them.
What that adds up to is a category this valley has very little of. Provo is well supplied with counters, fast-casual rooms and dessert shops, and thin on places where the point is to sit for two hours over something slow. Our date-night and group coverage both hit that shortage regularly. This is one of the answers to it, and the brunch filing hides that.
It closes Sunday. Tastings, tea and the factory tour are booked rather than walked into, which is the practical difference between this and the dessert counters it sits near on the avenue.
Everything we have written about it
This is every page on Provo.com that names Taste 117, most substantial first. The directory exists to route you into the writing rather than to replace it.
The durable facts, and the ones we refuse to carry
- Name: Taste 117
- Address: 117 N University Ave, Provo, Utah
- Cuisine: Brunch
- Where we read the address: our own page, not a third-party listing
- How we know the city: this site prints the city immediately after the address
We do not publish opening hours, prices, phone numbers or ratings for any venue in this directory. Those are the facts that go stale, and a directory carrying them is wrong within a season while still looking authoritative. For hours, ask the restaurant.