The 19 Best Restaurants of 2025—Salt Lake
Milo Carrier hasn’t stopped cooking since he was 16 years old. He and his wife Brooke Doner’s restaurant Arlo is a sentinel of fine dining on Capitol Hill and a city and neighborhood favorite. At Arlo, Carrier gets to explore his ever-changing concepts of cuisine, with a seasonal menu that changes from month to month. He, the menu seems to say, is what we’d call a non-linear thinker. He exists in a quantum flux of time and space—the Schrodinger’s Cat of Salt Lake cuisine—ensuring his menu is simultaneously today and tomorrow.
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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