The Salt Lake gyro at Crown Burgers and Apollo combines vertical-rotisserie lamb-and-beef gyro meat with pastrami, tomato, onion, cucumber tzatziki and pita bread, a Greek-Mormon-Lebanese fusion identifying the local Greek-American counter idiom.
Greek Orthodox immigrants arrived in Utah in waves from the late 1800s, building Holy Trinity Cathedral in 1925 and the annual Salt Lake Greek Festival since 1976. Greek-American burger counters including Crown Burgers (1978) and Apollo Burger (1980s) brought the gyro spit to Utah burger culture, blending it with the pastrami burger and fry sauce into a distinctive local Greek-American counter idiom.
3 editor picks for Greek pastrami gyro in Salt Lake City, ranked by editorial score. All Salt Lake City signature dishes · Greek pastrami gyro across every city.
Manoli's ★ 4.6
ninth-and-ninth · 402 E Harvey Milk Blvd, Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Manoli's on Harvey Milk Boulevard, chef-owner Manoli Katsanevas' Greek small-plates room since 2015, reinterprets Greek mezze with seasonal local ingredients.
Crown Burgers ★ 4.5
downtown · 377 E 200 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Crown Burgers on East 200 South, the Katsanevas family's burger institution since 1978, popularized Salt Lake's pastrami burger at its Greek-American counter.
Apollo Burger ★ 4.0
north-temple · 143 N Redwood Rd, Salt Lake City, UT 84116
Apollo Burger on Redwood Road, the Utah burger chain since 1984, serves charbroiled pastrami burgers and Greek-American sides.