DeeLicious Park City: How a SoCal Mom With an MBA Became Park City's Quiet Catering Powerhouse

The story starts with an email Deanna Berry didn't write. Sometime in the early 2010s, Berry was a Southern California mom finishing a PhD application — accounting MBA already framed on the wall, a respectable corporate trajectory laid out in front of her — when, as she tells it, an email appeared in her inbox with the subject line: "Go to Culinary School." She read it once. Closed the laptop. Opened it again. "I thought, THAT'S what I really want to do," she told the Park City Chamber in a May 2026 profile. Within days she was standing in the kitchen at San Diego's Culinary Arts Institute. "Surreal!" Years later, she graduated with honors, having interned alongside a James Beard-nominated chef. That email — universe, algorithm, mistaken sender, whatever it was — is the founding document for what is now DeeLicious Park City: a 4.9-star cafe and catering operation tucked into a Silver Summit business park that's quietly become one of the most consistently recommended places to eat in town.

"There is nothing more gratifying to me," Berry has written on her own chef page, "than seeing someone absolutely savor something I've prepared especially for them." If you've eaten at the cafe, the line stops sounding like marketing copy. The food at DeeLicious is the kind that gets passed by word of mouth in a town that, for all the celebrity-chef gloss of the Park City restaurant scene, still mostly runs on locals telling other locals where to actually go.

A Park City Chef Who Was Built in San Diego

Before Park City, Berry spent five years at San Diego's premier catering company, working as Catering Chef de Cuisine and as Sous Chef for one of the company's bistros. That's the deep-end training that makes the rest of her career make sense. Catering teaches you to cook at scale without losing precision; bistro line work teaches you to plate and fire in real time. Together, they make for a chef who can run a 200-person wedding on Sunday and a 12-seat private dinner on Wednesday and have both look like the only thing she did that week.

After the bistro years, Berry moved into private cheffing — which, she's noted, meant managing "complex and demanding dietary guidelines of individual families, including those requiring vegan and gluten-free expertise." That phase of her career is the reason her current menu reads the way it does. The cafe is full of cards next to dishes flagging GF, V, and DF; the catering menu was built for clients who'd been told for years that no, we can't do that by other operations. Berry says yes, then quietly figures out how.

The move to Utah came in 2015, after her family had been migrating one by one. Parents, brother, oldest son — all in Utah before her. Her youngest, Michael, finally cracked: "Mom, let's just go!" By winter 2017 she had launched DeeLicious Park City as a catering company. The brick-and-mortar cafe, the one most Parkites now know her by, didn't open until 2022. The catering came first; the cafe followed the demand.

The Silver Summit Cafe at the Heart of It

The cafe sits at 6440 North Business Park Loop Road, Unit Q — Silver Summit, a few minutes off I-80 near Kimball Junction. It's a working-day cafe by design: Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., closed Saturday and Sunday, which tells you everything about who Berry built it for. This is a place for the people who actually live and work in Park City, not the weekend ski-traffic crowd. Tourists who find it tend to be the ones who've talked to a local concierge or who stumbled into the right Reddit thread.

The menu rotates weekly. Made-to-order hot breakfasts come out of the kitchen all day — eggs, hash, scrambles with whatever vegetables came in fresh that week. Lunch is a sandwich-of-the-day program that genuinely changes every day, plus daily fresh soups, salads built off whatever's in season, and quiches and hot handpies pulled out of the oven mid-morning. The pastry case is where Berry's bakery instincts show up: signature scones, sweet loaves, and what the website calls "cult classic cookies" baked fresh in-house every morning. Customer reviews back this up. "Absolutely Park City's finest food," reads the most-quoted Yelp review. The signature chocolate-chunk cookie and a garlic-parmesan asparagus side dish both come up repeatedly in reviewer lists of must-orders.

What you don't see on the menu is the catering layer behind it. The cafe is also Berry's commissary kitchen for the catering side. Party platters, take-and-bake express meals, Family Table dinners you order online and pick up Thursday or Friday afternoon — these all come out of the same kitchen the cafe runs out of. Walk in at 11 a.m. on a Wednesday and you'll see the catering crew packing trays for a 60-person dinner that night while the cafe line ticks through the lunch rush. It's a tight operation.

The Mountain Town Olive Oil Partnership and What "The Next Course" Built

In 2018, Berry partnered with Jessica McCleary, the owner of Mountain Town Olive Oil at Redstone, to launch The Next Course — a series of hands-on cooking demonstrations and wine pairing classes that has, in the years since, become one of Park City's most reliable off-slope activities. Berry teaches, McCleary pairs, and the two of them have built up a recipe canon that's now reportedly heading toward a cookbook.

This is the kind of detail that explains why DeeLicious is woven so deeply into Park City's actual food culture rather than orbiting it. The Next Course classes pull in visitors who'd otherwise never set foot in a cooking class. The cookbook project, when it ships, will put Berry's catering food into the kitchens of clients who can't make the drive up the canyon. And the format — chef and shopkeeper teaching together, no slides, no condescension — has the same DNA as a Park City ski lesson: small, hands-on, you walk out actually knowing how to do something.

The Mountainkind ethos that Park City keeps marketing to visitors lives or dies on operators like Berry. "In Park City, a catering contract isn't just a transaction," she told the Chamber. "It is a neighbor trusting me with their daughter's wedding. It truly feels like family." That's not a line you can fake for ten years. The 4.9-star Yelp rating across 61 reviews — and the Yelp listing's January 2026 update — track with that consistency. So does the steady volume of repeat catering clients who've been with her since 2017.

The Newest Move: A Mini DeeLicious Inside Jackson's Hideaway at PCMR

Berry's most recent expansion landed in winter 2025/2026: a mini DeeLicious Cafe inside Jackson's Hideaway at Park City Mountain Resort. The mountain location is exactly what you'd expect — a tighter, condensed version of the Silver Summit menu, built for skiers and riders who want real food without dropping out of the lift line for an hour. Pastries, espresso, sandwiches you can fold into a jacket pocket. It's also the first DeeLicious location with a captive winter-tourist audience, which makes it the test of whether Berry's small-batch standards scale.

Locals who've been are quietly optimistic. The PCMR location has been folding in the same in-house standards the Silver Summit cafe runs on — fresh-baked daily, made-to-order, no shortcuts. Whether the model holds at resort volume is the question for the 2026/27 season.

Planning Your Visit to DeeLicious Park City

The flagship cafe is at 6440 North Business Park Loop Road, Unit Q, Park City, UT 84098. Phone is (435) 731-7911. Email inquiries@deeliciousparkcity.com for catering, take-home dinners, or Family Table pickups. @deelicious_pc

Hours: Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Closed Saturday and Sunday. This is the standout planning note — if you're rolling into Park City for a weekend, you have to hit it on the way in (Friday lunch) or wait until Monday. Express take-and-bake dinners are bookable through the website if you want a full meal to bring home to the rental. The mini DeeLicious inside Jackson's Hideaway at PCMR runs winter season hours — check the resort schedule.

What to order: the cookie. Whatever cookie is on the counter that day. After that, the sandwich of the day is almost always the move (it's where Berry stretches her muscles), the daily soup if it's a snowy week, and one of the salads if you've been skiing and need vegetables. The garlic-parmesan asparagus side is the sneaky order — multiple reviewers flag it. If you're catering an event in Park City, this is the call before you call anyone else.

This is why we live here. Park City has more square footage of restaurant per visitor than most resort towns its size, and the bulk of that square footage is owned by groups that do not, in fact, live here. DeeLicious is the counterweight. A chef who graduated with honors, a kid who grew up running the front of house, a family that moved to Utah one by one until the youngest finally said "let's just go" — and a small cafe at the back of a Silver Summit business park where the cookies come out of the oven at 9 a.m. and the catering side runs the rest of the day.