Twisted Food in South Dakota

By Amy Kirk on Friday, November 4th, 2011

When a trained chef and a self-taught chef sauté unorthodox customer service ideals with comfort foods, you’re not going to taste an ordinary BLT or Reuben sandwich. Instead you’ll taste food that’s rocking restaurant competition in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Tony and Josh Kellar, with the help of Tony's niece, man the counter at Sioux Falls' historic Falls Café, aka Utopia.

In a historic building overlooking Falls Park is the city-owned Falls Café, now managed by Utopia, a restaurant and catering business owned by chef brothers Tony and Josh Kellar. These brothers are cranking out a business in a kitchen that, according to Tony would be unthinkable to most professional chefs. “Our kitchen is a two-burner hot plate, small pizza oven, high-mileage convection oven, and chest freezers. That’s it.”