Dining Awards

Christopher Stephenson/Lake Effect: 2021 Salt Lake Magazine Cocktail Contest

Second Iteration, the 2021 Salt Lake Magazine Cocktail Contest entry from Water Witch, features Sugar House Rye Whiskey.

Kacie Wilks/Oquirrh: 2021 Salt Lake Magazine Cocktail Contest

Blood of a Unicorn, the 2021 Salt Lake Magazine Cocktail Contest entry from Seabird features a shrub with plumcots, rhubarb and ginger.

Dominick Medel/BTG and Caffe Molise: 2021 Salt Lake Magazine Cocktail Contest

Each year, we ask a selection of Utah's best bartenders to use local spirits and local ingredients and hit us with their best shot (or shots). So last Sept. 12, bartenders bravely...

Nick Harward/Mortar and Pestle: 2021 Salt Lake Magazine Cocktail Contest

Fire and Earth, the 2021 Salt Lake Magazine Cocktail Contest entry from Mortar and Pestle, is a beet and tarragon cocktail with barrel-aged gin. 

Eli Larson Hays/SLC Eatery: 2021 Salt Lake Magazine Cocktail Contest

Each year, we ask a selection of Utah's best bartenders to use local spirits and local ingredients and hit us with their best shot (or shots). So last Sept. 12, bartenders bravely...

Michaela Dransfield/Undercurrent: 2021 Salt Lake Magazine Cocktail Contest

The star ingredient of Sex Dreams, the 2021 Salt Lake Magazine Cocktail Contest entry from Undercurrent, is Angostura.

Adam “Scoop” Kaessner/Water Witch: 2021 Salt Lake Magazine Cocktail Contest

The star ingredient of Seething Song, the 2021 Salt Lake Magazine Cocktail Contest entry from Water Witch, is gardenia syrup.

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.