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Salt Lake City’s Caffe Molise and BTG Wine Bar are now open in the historic Eagle Building on 400 South

Salt Lake Tribune | October 18, 2018

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The Eagle Building, former home of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and more recently The Bay dance club, is the new home of Salt Lake City’s Caffe Molise and its affiliated BTG Wine Bar.

The Italian restaurant and bar officially moved into the historic spot at 404 S. West Temple in mid-September, after spending 25 years near the Salt Palace Convention Center.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Caffe Molise recently opened in its new location inside the old (but completely updated) Eagle Building on the southwest corner of 400 South and West Temple.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Caffe Molise recently opened in its new location inside the old (but completely updated) Eagle Building on the southwest corner of 400 South and West Temple with the owners other venture, the BTG Wine Bar, taking up residence in the space below the restaurant.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Polenta Con Fungi, wild mushrooms sautu008eed with roasted garlic, served on polenta with tomato sauce melted gorgonzola and caramelized onions at Caffe Molise which recently opened in its new location inside the old (but completely updated) Eagle Building on the southwest corner of 400 South and West Temple.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Caffe Molise recently opened in its new location inside the old (but completely updated) Eagle Building on the southwest corner of 400 South and West Temple with the owners other venture, the BTG Wine Bar, taking up residence in the space below the restaurant.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Imported penne pasta, in a bacon-alfredo sauce on spinach with grilled chicken breast at Caffe Molise, recently opened in its new location inside the old (but completely updated) Eagle Building on the southwest corner of 400 South and West Temple.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) A cruvinet wine dispensing system allows customers to sample 40 wines by the glass at the BTG Wine Bar now located on the ground floor of Caffe Molise, which recently opened in its new location inside the old (but completely updated) Eagle Building on the southwest corner of 400 South and West Temple.

But it required months of renovations, which focused on updating the building’s plumbing, heating and air conditioning systems and filling in its pool, while maintaining its Neo-Renaissance style, said chef Fred Moesinger, who co-owns the business with his wife, Aimee Sterling.

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