Cotton Bottom Inn — Restaurant in Holladay

Don't go here. Don't bring your kids here if you value their safety. Keep reading.

Not bad but really mediocre with a higher price tag attached. An easy one to skip honestly. It's like a greasy bar burger / burger drive thru but way more expensive 🫰 Would rate 2.5/5 stars but had a terrible experience.

The food: it's your average garlic burger 🍔 on store bought bread with frozen potatoes as unseasoned fries or lays potato chips on the side (not exaggerating - that's what it is). Not really much more different than something you'd find for less at Red Robin or Chili's. Very uninspired. Completely unoriginal. Undeseasoned and overcooked. What you pay and what you get doesn't make any sense.

🌭 The hot dogs were so basic. Average beef frank split and grilled. But you get to pay $7+ for the privilege.

🥗 House salad was overdressed and weirdly sweet. The Greek "salad" was a pile of hugely chopped tomatoes with feta and 2 Klamath olives.

The service is really a miss. Get your own drinks. Ask for your own things. Good luck with napkins. and help yourself to greasy empty condiment bottles if you can find them. You will be crowded by their inability to bus tables too.

My Safety concern: they allow dogs. A dog attacked my eldest kid and made him bleed. The owner and staff did nothing to make the situation right or for us to feel safe. They did absolutely nothing but ask if we were okay. Had to spend the rest of my dining experience near the terrible dog owners. So I can't recommend this place to anyone really.

Also Lazz, if my kid just got bit by a dog in your establishment, I don't want to spend the rest of my meal with you hovering over me talking about dogs. what was that?

Really mediocre food took half it home. My chickens liked some of it. So I guess that tells you why it's an easier place to skip from someone who reviews a lot...

Okay boys and girls, I have been trying to get to this spot for the last 2 years. Every time, it has happened to be closed. Well, well, well..... not tonight. My first time walking in, the atmosphere, clean. I was greeted with wonderful smells that just made me excited to see their menu. Obviously, I go for a pint. My choice, the Hefeweizen that’s on tap. Do you know how rare it is to have an establishment serve me a lemon wedge with my hefe?! It is a basic extra step most busy places just skip over or forget. Not the cotton bottom inn. I was able to squeeze that baby right in for a well deserved after work, pre dinner beer. Cheers to them on that. But wait.... then I ordered dinner. The menu seemed small, but sometimes that’s the best for quality food. 2 meals were picked; the BLT, and the impossible burger. When asked if I wanted to add cheese, or if I wanted to make my burger “garlic style”, I had a giggle because... duh. The BLT was a classic. Another star to the cotton bottom inn for obviously adding fresh ground pepper on the insides of my BLT. We aren’t just talking 2-3 cranks here kids. The chefs took the time to do that sammie justice with an obvious 14 (ish) grinding! In NO WAY was it too much or too little... It was the perfect fresh pepper to sandwich ratio. THEN the garlic style impossible burger with cheese... the bun was no ordinary bun. It was a perfect bread pairing. Fresh and such a wonderful texture. One of the BEST veggie burgers I have had locally. When asked if you want it garlic style the follow up is, “is there any other way?”. Well done guys. This was such a great eating experience because the food was TOP notch. Service was great. Facilities were CLEAN, bathrooms and all. Good for you guys, and I’m proud to have you be a local spot I can continue...

I had one of the more stunning, and candidly saddening experiences I've ever had at this restaurant. Our server was short tempered and short of patience, condescending, and anything but welcoming. Fine. I've had those before. But this one was already a little more memorable than most. We had to send a burger back which was not what we ordered. The server opened the burger to inspect, point out that we were wrong and it was the "plain burger" we ordered, but no, the plain burger did arrive and was being eaten by a member of our party. So she rolled her eyes, without admitting it was wrong and which time we requested for them to just remove it from our check as we had enough food. Incredibly rude, but I've had those servers before. It gets better. The host comes and asks if they can seat a party at the end of our table which was slightly strange - we were a party of 4 and the table was pretty full, but ok. My uncle who is wildly cautious of going out due to the Covid pandemic asked if they were "positive that you want to sit somebody here"? A few minutes later a masked (she hadn't been masked until then) manager comes to accuse my uncle that we joked about "being Covid positive". Insulting and just not true. She didn't respectfully inquire...she accused. Then said she was bringing our bill and we needed to leave. Stunning behavior. We moved to the area within the last year. Hadn't been here before and were truly looking forward to it. Suffice it to say, we won't return, and we will spread our experience amongst our co-workers, neighbors, friends, etc.....Just unfriendly, entitled and wildly disrespectful behavior. Not exactly the friendly neighborhood place we had hoped to find. So much for enjoying a place just two miles...