Dining Awards

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...

Table X: 2022 Salt Lake Magazine Dining Award Winner

Nominee: Mike Blocher of Table X Table X has evolved over the years. Started by a team of chefs who came from traditional fine dining restaurants on the East Coast, Nick Fahs and...

Fav Bistro: 2022 Salt Lake Magazine Dining Award Winner

Nominee Anny Sooksri of Tea Rose Diner, Chabaar Beyond Thai & Fav Bistro In 2006 Anny Sooksri opened Tea Rose Diner in a still, she admits, hard-to-find location in Murray. She says she...

Joel Aoyagi/Stoneground: 2021 Salt Lake Magazine Cocktail Contest

The Malouf, the 2021 Salt Lake Magazine Cocktail Contest entry from Stoneground, was created in honor of Salt Lake's late editor Mary Malouf.

Maddy Schmidt/Alibi: 2021 Salt Lake Magazine Cocktail Contest

Dead Man's Party, the 2021 Salt Lake Magazine Cocktail Contest entry from Alibi, is inspired by the flavor of pineapple upside down cake.

Jacob Sanders/Post Office Place: 2021 Salt Lake Magazine Cocktail Contest

A Good Sarsaparilla, the 2021 Salt Lake Magazine Cocktail Contest entry from Post Office Place, evokes curling up to watch a scary movie in the fall.