In 2022, we asked Utah’s top chefs to name their favorite restaurants for the ‘Chef’s Choice Edition’ of the Salt Lake magazine Dining Awards. David Chon’s Nohm got the emphatic nod from many, especially Copper Common’s Ryan Lowder who said, “With David Chon, you have a guy with a vision and he’s not changing it. You gotta admire that.” Despite all the love, the restaurant named Nohm struggled to find its audience and went on a hiatus. It emerged late last year, with a new partnership with the Water Witchers who knocked a hole in the wall between the Witch and Nohm (because, duh) and rechristened the operation Bar Nohm.
Retooling nearly every aspect of the experience, adding communal tables and the weight of Water Witch’s bar program to the mix, David Chon finally helms a restaurant worthy of his intensity and dedication. Chon, you see, is into precision in the way Switzerland makes watches. As much mad scientist as a chef, the partnership with the Witch freed his mind from niggling details like forks and tablecloths and let him do what he does best, which is, as Dining Awards panelist Darby Doyle described as revealing an “aesthetic experiment in real-time.”
165 W. 900 South, SLC | barnohm.com
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