Chef Mike Blocher, Table X. Photo by Adam Finkle.
The 19 Best Restaurants of 2025—Salt Lake
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 focuses on the restaurant’s bakery (which sells directly to customers) and Mike sources food locally (much of it from the restaurant’s garden). They doubled down on their confidence and turned loose Fahs in the bakery, which they built out into a retail outlet for Fahs’ fantastically fussy bread. Meanwhile, Table X only serves an ever-changing tasting menu for a new adventure at each seating. This is the most ambitious kitchen in town, and their prix fixe tasting menus are dependably stunning and always include vegetarian and vegan options, tablexrestaurant.com.
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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