
New American cooking is Salt Lake City's defining modern restaurant genre, and much of it traces back to Scott Evans' Pago on 900 East, the 45-seat farm-to-table flagship that codified the city's seasonal style after opening in 2009. Downtown, The Copper Onion on East Broadway, Ryan Lowder's room since 2010, and HSL, chef Briar Handly's wood-fire-driven kitchen on East 200 South, carry the same ingredient-led approach. The cluster around 9th and 9th and downtown forms the heart of how the city eats now.
