Communal

If your looking for quality, fresh GOOD food in downtown Provo, this is the place. No questions!

Get potatoes.



While looking at the menu, I just couldn’t decide what to get. I texted my brother in DC (former BYU student and Communal connoisseur) and he texted back with one word: “POTATOES.” Well, it turns out we ordered every single potato on the menu and man oh man, they were incredible. I fell in love with the Boulangère Potatoes long before they were served because our server (who could recognize that I was struggling with what to order) gave us the folklore of said potatoes…and I love a good story. Apparently, long ago in France, the town bakeries were all used by the townspeople to cook the dinner meal in their ovens which were still hot from cooking bread all day. The meats were put on the top shelf of the oven and the potatoes under them to ensure they caught all the delicious meat drippings.



Let’s just say that Communal’s Boulangère Potatoes did not disappoint legend.



I wasn’t a huge fan of the steak—which is usually my go-to ordering option. I found the steak served too rare for my liking.

This place is great! the food was delicious and all of the ingredients are from local sellers so the menu changes depending on what's in season. It can be a bit expensive but they serve the food 'family style' meaning BIG portions meant to be shared with the whole table so if you take a group of 4-6 people the price is immediately more reasonable.