Dining Awards

2023 Best Restaurant: The Pearl 

Conceived by the minds who brought us Alibi, but firmly standing on its own, The Pearl provides an unforgettable food and drink experience. First, let’s talk about the food. The menu is...

2023 Best Restaurant: Sauce Boss Southern Kitchen

Inside, Sauce Boss Southern Kitchen feels more like a diner than fine dining, but that’s the point. “It’s not fancy, but it is great eats served with love,” says Darby Doyle, a...

2023 Best Restaurant: Handle and HSL

These are two different restaurants in two very different spaces. Handle, located just off of Park City’s Historic Main Street, stands out in a town that caters to visitors where some operators,...

2023 Best Restaurant: Table X

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...

2023 Best Restaurant: Tona Sushi Bar and Grill 

Tona Sushi Bar & Grill in Ogden has been wowing our cousins to the north for more than a decade with “creative and ingenious art,” as described by Dining Awards panelist Jennifer...

2022 Salt Lake Magazine Dining Awards: Chef’s Choice

Each year, Salt Lake magazine recognizes the state’s best restaurants in its annual dining awards edition. For 2022, we asked some of the best chefs in Utah and our past honorees “who...

Manoli’s: 2022 Salt Lake Magazine Dining Award Winner

Nominees: Manoli & Katrina Katsanevas of Manoli’s Manoli’s has been open for six years but Manoli and Katrina Katsanevas have been cooking for more than a decade. Manoli started working in a family...

Afghan Kitchen: 2022 Salt Lake Magazine Dining Award Winner

Nominees: Wali & Mariam Arshad of Afghan Kitchen Wali Arshad came to the United States from Afghanistan and surprise, surprise discovered that there weren’t any good Afghan restaurants in Utah. He opened a...