Dining Awards

19 Best Restaurants of 2025—Utah County

Much like Robert Redford himself—that wily silver fox who founded the place in the 1970s—the whole iconic Sundance Resort experience not only holds up but continues to do so in timeless style. In the fall it’s our go-to for post-leaf-peeping Sunday brunch with the fam at The Foundry Grill. After a Timpanogos hike or après ski adventure, you can’t go wrong with stopping in at the diminutive and always delightful Owl Bar. Year-round it’s a winner for a cozy and quiet weekend staycation, wherein it’s a moral imperative that you share at least one romantic dinner at the Tree Room. Like the fine wines on their excellent beverage list, it’s just getting better with age, sundanceresort.com.

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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The 19 Best Restaurants of 2025—Salt Lake

Lunch, brunch, dinner—you name it—Franklin Avenue is a one-stop destination for any dining event. After-work drinks? Kick back with a plate of the coconut and chile crisp spiked snap peas. Hangover-curing brunch? Duck confit chilaquiles will soothe any ills. Franklin’s flexibility is borne of Chef Matt Crandall’s open-ended menu. It’s his fourth outing for the Bourbon Group and his best effort to date. Crandall’s menu is a canny mix of New American alongside chicly executed bar food. An elementary burger is easily one of the best you’ll taste. The atmosphere is buzzy without being overbearing, and the location on Edison off the beaten path still makes the 21+ business feel like an insider secret.

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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The 19 Best Restaurants of 2025—Salt Lake

It takes guts to open a restaurant that most out-of-towners can’t pronounce. But that kind of true-to-self-and-place gutsiness makes Oquirrh, well, Oquirrh. Co-owners Chef Andrew Fuller and front-of-house wonder Angie Fuller have created a top-notch culinary oasis in the Aves and imbued it with their whole talented hearts and considerable gustatory chops. Any restaurant of this caliber sources seasonally with care and intention, but Fuller takes it up several pegs more with an almost obsessive (and we love him for it) hyper-focus. He’s stripping phenomenal raw ingredients down to their elemental potential, building them back up in unexpected and whimsical ways, and then humbly sending those spectacular plates out as if it’s all no big deal.

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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The 19 Best Restaurants of 2025—Salt Lake

Table X continues to push its high-concept experiment further. Started by a team of chefs who came from traditional fine dining restaurants on the East Coast, Nick Fahs and Mike Blocher, Nick focuses on the restaurant’s bakery (which sells directly to customers) and Mike sources food locally (much of it from the restaurant’s garden). They doubled down on their confidence and turned loose Fahs in the bakery, which they built out into a retail outlet for Fahs’ fantastically fussy bread. Meanwhile, Table X only serves an ever-changing tasting menu for a new adventure at each seating. This is the most ambitious kitchen in town, and their prix fixe tasting menus are dependably stunning and always include vegetarian and vegan options, tablexrestaurant.com.

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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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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The 19 Best Restaurants of 2025—Salt Lake

A “casot” is a tiny stone house in the middle of the Italian vineyards that is designed to provide a break with shade, drinks and food for the workers. Which is just the niche Casot fills in the 15th and 15th district. A coworking space by day that transitions gracefully to a wine bar in the late afternoon. Casot is a rotating showcase of wine-geekery with bottles you can’t find anywhere else in town, accompanied by little bites. The staff is knowledgeable and will walk you through the ever-changing beverage menu. The ambiance is like a small and bustling taverna, the perfect shady break away from work, casotwinework.com

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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19 Best Restaurants of 2025—Park City

With a renewed emphasis on local flavors and coastal foodways, Rime Seafood + Steak at St. Regis Deer Valley has been reimagining its space as a culinary escape for locals as well as out-of-towners. Traveling to Rime requires an amuse-bouche funicular ride with a view for miles. The oceanic menu starts with a raw bar that defies our inland nature, while local specialties from elk, honey, beans, melons and mushrooms pepper the menu. While “rime” translates to “the frost formed on cold objects by the rapid freezing,” it would be a mistake to think of it as only a winter place. Rime shows up beautifully in the summer for drinks on the patio overlooking meadows of wildflowers and aspen trees, srdvdining.com.

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.

Hungry for more? Find all our current and previous Dining Awards winners here! And while you’re here, why not subscribe and get six annual issues of Salt Lake magazine’s curated guide to the best of life in Utah.

19 Best Restaurants of 2025—St. George

The desert setting in St. George is under threat as rampant growth in the form of horrid strip malls and cookie-cutter housing developments continues to gobble up the landscape. This is why we were happy to see new experienced operators take over Xetava + Rusted Cactus—a serene, view-forward restaurant and bar located at one of Ivins’ first planned developments, Kayenta, in the community’s precious artist village. Kayenta was started in 1975 and reflects what we imagine was the idea of desert living (Kokapellis are abundant) then as it grew in the ’80s and ’90s. Matt Mackay, who also runs The Cliff, has inherited the kind of space you couldn’t recreate today. He was, in a sense, grandfathered into a more tranquil time in the area’s history. Matt MacKay and his team, led by Chef Dylan Loper and front-of-house veterans Catesby Carman and Jorma Terenski, show respect for the setting and offer a challenging and thoughtful menu that perfectly pairs with the views of the red cliffs and open landscape out the window, xetava.com.

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.

Hungry for more? Find all our current and previous Dining Awards winners here! And while you’re here, why not subscribe and get six annual issues of Salt Lake magazine’s curated guide to the best of life in Utah.

19 Best Restaurants of 2025—Salt Lake

We missed the westside location of Nomad, so having Nomad Eatery return with its location inside Uinta Brewery still feels like a special treat. For people who live and work on the west side, there’s a chill neighborhood bar and restaurant to get your fix of pitch-perfect burgers, crispy fries, and—of course—a so-satisfying spicy fried chicken sandwich, with an ice-cold draft beer to wash it down. What’s not to love? (I don’t know about you, but now I’m hungry.) nomad-eatery.com.

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.

Hungry for more? Find all our current and previous Dining Awards winners here! And while you’re here, why not subscribe and get six annual issues of Salt Lake magazine’s curated guide to the best of life in Utah.

19 Best Restaurants of 2025—Park City

Restaurateur Brooks Kirchheimer’s growing roster of popular spots—including our 2024 Restaurant of the Year, Urban Hill—are justifiably lauded for craveable food, great drinks and truly outstanding service. Since opening Hearth & Hill in 2018, their team has been consistently nailing the details, plating amazing food and meeting guests at their dining comfort level. Are dogs or kids part of your party? They’ve got a pup-friendly patio and children’s menu we’d gladly order from ourselves. Last-minute houseguests? Grab a gourmet takeout meal for the crowd. It’s the impressive “Can you meet me halfway?” pick for a Parley’s Canyon-adjacent business lunch or a perfect choice for a catch-up dinner with friends. In a word, Hearth & Hill lives up to Kirchheimer’s day-one “commitment to community,” in all the tastiest ways, hearth-hill.com.

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.

Hungry for more? Find all our current and previous Dining Awards winners here! And while you’re here, why not subscribe and get six annual issues of Salt Lake magazine’s curated guide to the best of life in Utah.