Corporate Cuisine Awards: readers serve up the best local eateries for business.

• Author: Little, Candace M.

Each year, Utah Business asks our readers about the best restaurants for doing business--where they take clients to impress them, where they go for a casual lunch meeting or where to start the day off with a power breakfast. After all, a great meal can make or break a business deal, and a mid-morning coffee can change an entire day from blah to wah-lah. If at the end of the day, neither of those scenarios worked for you, our readers know about a great place for after-work cocktails. Here are the results of the 2011 Corporate Cuisine Awards presented by Sysco Intermountain and selected by you.

A clear reason Bambara Restaurant is on our list this year is because of its consistency. One of our readers voted for Bambara because of its "inventive food and consistently good service." Another says it is always consistently good and I love the environment." Chef Nathan Powers sources from local farms and ranches to create his breakfast, lunch and dinner dishes. One reader's favorite: "Blue Cheese Potato Chips."

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The New Yorker, which opened in 1978, is Gastronomy's flagship restaurant. It has managed to keep the crowds coming by offering professional customer service and dishes ranging from its New Yorker Burger to prime beefsteaks, lamb and pheasant dishes. Will Pliler, executive chef and partner at The New Yorker, says, "People keep coming back because we still offer the core menu items that our guests have enjoyed for over 33 years, combined with fresh, new menu options." He travels around the country looking for new trends and uses local ingredients whenever possible

Since 2009, Grade's has been serving up cocktails and fresh, locally grown rood in its relaxing atmosphere. Decorated with art and offering live music on a sun-filled patio, Grade's owners say its the only gastropub around. If you've had a bad day at work, co-owner Shawn Frehner recommends joining the rest of the Monday-Friday, 4-7 p.m. crowd, most of whom order something from the tapas menu and get Grade's Manly Mojito, made fresh to order in a tall frosty glass. "We offer every flavor of mojito imaginable, including using fresh blackberries, blueberries and raspberries."

"Hiring Cuisine Unlimited is Ji like taking out an insurance policy on your event. It will always be perfect and the food and service will be of the highest quality," one of our readers says. Owner Maxine Turner leads Cuisine Unlimited and its gourmet-quality and inventive catering options...