The Best Italian Food in Salt Lake City
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The best Italian food in Salt Lake City, according to the experts: AAA, Salt Lake Magazine, and The Infatuation have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Valter's Osteria comes out on top.
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Cosmica and Scelto hold the next two places. AAA and Salt Lake Magazine show up on more of this list than any other guide.
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Rank 1. Valter's Osteria
Italian
The awards
- AAA AAA: Four Diamonds
- Salt Lake Magazine Salt Lake Magazine: Utah Classics · Dining Awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Restaurants In Salt Lake City
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Salt Lake Magazine Utah Classics · Dining Awards
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Salt Lake City
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Rank 2. Cosmica
Neapolitan Pizzeria
An Italian diner doing a spaghetti Western impression, Cosmica landed on the New York Times Restaurant List for 2025 and earns the attention. The Central Ninth spot is big, kitschy, and photogenic in a way that stops short of feeling calculated, with housemade pastas, wood-fired Neapolitan pies, and a clam pizza finished with salsa verde that quietly steals the table. The "House Puffy Bread" arrives straight from the oven, hot enough to make you burn your fingers.
The awards
- Wine Enthusiast Wine Enthusiast: Top 50 New Restaurants
- Salt Lake Magazine Salt Lake Magazine: Restaurants to Watch · Dining Awards
- The New York Times The New York Times: 2025 · The Restaurant List
- Wine Enthusiast Top 50 New Restaurants
- Salt Lake Magazine Restaurants to Watch · Dining Awards
- The New York Times 2025 · The Restaurant List
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Rank 3. Scelto
Italian
Fresh pasta rolled in-house daily anchors the menu at this casually upscale Italian restaurant in Sandy. The room lands somewhere between date night and neighborhood staple, where charcuterie boards make a reasonable case for never ordering a main course. Bone-in ribeye and seared scallops with saffron emulsion suggest the kitchen is happy to range past the pasta, which is admirable restraint given how good the pasta is.
The awards
- AAA AAA: Three Diamonds
- Salt Lake Magazine Salt Lake Magazine: Restaurants to Watch · Dining Awards
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Rank 4. Tuscany
Tuscan
The awards