The 19 Best Restaurants of 2025—Salt Lake
Copper Common starkly contrasts its elder sibling Copper Onion, just a few doors down. It is intimate and elegant and completely idiosyncratic in all the best ways. Inspired by owner Ryan Lowder’s former NYC life, a seductively simple menu blends smartly seasonal ingredients with flashes of global inspiration. Dishes are restrained and uncomplicated, allowing core ingredients to shine; bright farmer’s market tomatoes pop in the summer, rustic soups warm in the winter. A routinely rotating roster means Copper Common reliably delivers visit after visit, always with something new to discover. Beyond the exemplary kitchen output, the 21+ bar/restaurant offers pours from a distinctively unique natural wine list backed by always inventive craft cocktails.
Each year, Salt Lake magazine presents its choices for the best restaurants in Utah. This year, we zoomed in on the individual neighborhoods and fast-growing parts of our state that are emerging as dining destinations. But no matter where they are located—be it a busy downtown block or a charming perch in Southern Utah—by our reckoning, these are the best restaurants in Utah.
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