Red Iguana Mole appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Red Iguana mole · Salt Lake City
Red Iguana's mole sauces are the Salt Lake Mexican canon: mole negro, mole verde, mole amarillo, mole poblano and four to six other variants rotating.
The Cardenas family opened Red Iguana on West North Temple in 1985, building on their 1965 family Mexican restaurant tradition. The kitchen offers at least eight distinct moles, drawn from Mexico's Oaxacan and central states, simultaneously. Red Iguana is Utah's most awarded restaurant and the editorial flagship of Salt Lake's Mexican food culture, a multiyear Best of State Mexican winner.
Where to eat in Salt Lake City:
- Red Iguana
- Red Iguana 2