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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