Salt Lake City: Local Food Walking Tour
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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.
2 editor picks for Red Iguana mole in Salt Lake City, ranked by editorial score. All Salt Lake City signature dishes · Red Iguana mole across every city.
Red Iguana ★ 4.9
north-temple · 736 W North Temple St, Salt Lake City, UT 84116
Red Iguana on West North Temple, the Cardenas family's Mexican room since 1985 and Utah's most awarded restaurant, runs the state's defining moles.
Red Iguana 2 ★ 4.7
north-temple · 866 W South Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84116
Red Iguana 2 on West South Temple, the larger sibling of the Cardenas family flagship, runs the same award-winning moles in a bigger room with a full bar.
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