15 years ago, @blake_spalding and the farmers at our 6.5 acre farm planted hundreds of asparagus crowns at Hell’s Backbone’s No-Harm Farm that we call Blaker’s Acres. Our farm was established in 2005 and is now in its 21st year!
These beautiful green spears are one of the first things we harvest each season and our favorite flavor of spring. Cared for properly, they’re a perennial delight, growing anew each April and May and then gracing our menu for about 6 weeks.
This year, we’re refreshing the asparagus beds with 200 new crowns that we’ll be carefully placing this week while it’s still cool.
We serve the tender shoots lightly sautéed with our she-devil hot sauce laced hollandaise, that’s made with egg yolks from our no-kill flock of industrious chickens (who also eat all of our kitchen and leftover plate scrapings, keeping edible material out of the trash bins).
This dish brings together everything we envisioned this restaurant to be: home-grown, freshly harvested, healthy food, brought from our hands and hearts directly to your belly.
photos by @marykmcintyre featuring our dear lead farmer Birdie & head chef Tyler Warren 💚
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📍 @hellsbackbonegrill & @littlebonefoodtruck
Boulder | UT
KUTV2 10 AM or
TasteUtah Youtube 10:30 AM
This week on Taste Utah, we take you inside the incomparable Hell’s Backbone Grill & Farm: a place where food, land, and community are deeply intertwined.
Founded by co-owners and best friends Jen Castle and Blake Spalding, this beloved destination sits on the edge of Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument and offers more than just a meal; it offers connection.
From elevated dining to their Little Bone food truck favorites, every dish tells a story rooted in heritage, sustainability, and a profound love of place.
Tune in Saturday at 10AM on KUTV2 or 10:30AM on YouTube.
#tasteutah #taste #utahrestaurants #tasteutahrestaurants #farm
Happy Earth Day ✨ 🌎✨
Today and everyday we are so incredibly grateful for this wondrous place on this planet we call home. These lands feed and nourish the bodies, minds, and souls of so many beings.
Our dear founder @blake_spalding was in Washington, DC this week with @conservationlands continuing the fight to save Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument along with so many of our public lands heroes.
Thank you Bruce Babbitt, David Brooks, @dbxdc politigator @repstansbury , @repsusielee , @repgrijalva , filmmaker, author and scholar Angelo Baca, Public Lands activist Natasha Hale, and all the others out there advocating on behalf of our public lands. We’re so grateful for your work defending wildlife, wilderness, clean air and water, and the diversity of life on planet Earth.
The future of our public lands are always worth fighting for. Please join us in calling your representatives and urging them to Save Grand Staircase, to vote no on the CRA which would overturn the management plan, to leave the Roadless Rule in place (and remind them of all the other things you care about, too 😉).
Happy to be sharing and walking this miraculous Planet Earth with all of you 🫶🏼 ~ The Hellions
#savegrandstaircase #protectwhatmatters @saveplanetearth
photos 2, 4, 6 by @marykmcintyre
Heading back to DC for the love of Grand Staircase, and this exquisite planet we call home. Thank you @conservationlands for bringing me out for the fight. #savegrandstaircase #savetheplanet #savemotherearth ❤️🔥🤺❤️🔥 PLEASE CALL Rep Celeste Maloy (202) 225-9730 and tell her to leave public lands in public hands!
Also, big gratitude to @jenner11 and our brilliant team of hellions @hellsbackbonegrill for holding it down while I’m away, and for @treechickee for the loving animal and home care 🙏🏼
We had a truly glorious opening weekend! Thanks to all of you who came out to celebrate the first nights of Season 27 with us 💕 It was amazing to have old friends show up to surprise us, greet familiar faces from seasons past, and make new connections over our food, drink and shared values around public lands.
Shoutout to all our Hellions, new and veteran, to co-creating the best opening weekend EVER!
ALSO Grand Staircase is in grave danger again, and so if you love us and our Monument, please immediately call the offices of your senators and representatives. You may not feel like they are listening, but at a bare minimum, they tally the calls and volume matters!
Spring has sprung in Boulder! Earlier this week, our newest Hellions joined our dear friend @acekvale for our annual orientation hike and introduction to Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, the incredibly beautiful, immeasurable place we’re so lucky to call home and the literal reason why our restaurant exists.
It’s been a full week of training and preparations and we’re opening our doors for Season 27 in just a few days ~ Friday the 13th at 4 o’clock!
Our delightful @littlebonefoodtruck will open the following morning, offering steaming hot espresso to start your day and a full menu to satisfy your breakfast and lunch desires.
See you soon!! And please! Remember to call your elected officials to #savegrandstaircase ❤️🔥💫🙏
Photo: @acekvale
We’re honored to be included in @slmag ‘s 20 Best Restaurants of 2026 🙏🏽 So very grateful to be adding another plate to the wall (if you know you know)!
We praise and thank our head chef Tyler Warren, and the amazing team of magical Hellions that sustain and power this improbable restaurant in the most remote town in Southern Utah!
From the magazine: “Who but these ladies would show up to our photo shoot with a live chicken and fixings to make deviled eggs? We wouldn’t expect anything less”.
“This year, we sent several writers down to Boulder to verify what we already knew. Hell’s Backbone is a gem in the center of Utah that shines brighter every year and is once again deserving of a place among the best restaurants of 2026”.
We are racing into our 27th season, opening this Friday night the 13th for dinner at 4 pm ❤️🔥💫❤️🔥Please do come see us!
#savegrandstaircase
📸 by Adam Finkle
The fight for Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument CONTINUES. Please join us in the fight to save protections for this extraordinary wild landscape 📣‼️Call Rep Maloy and Senator John Curtis and leave a clear message- LEAVE the Management plan and the protections in PLACE! We need to make a big old ruckus in a hurry. 🗣️
Our winter Love Letter from Helles newsletter went out into the world last night — click the link in bio to read it in its entirety and sign up for future missives to be delivered to your inbox 🙌 We are eternally grateful to share this wild planet with all of you.
With tenderness & resolve, Blake, Jen, Nina, Morgan, Nick, & The Hellions
