Hell's Backbone Grill

Hell's Backbone Grill is a restaurant located in Boulder, Utah near the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.[1][2] The restaurant serves a style of “Four Corners Cuisine”: an updated combination of cowboy classics, Mormon recipes, and traditional Southwestern fare.[3]

Hell's Backbone Grill in Boulder, Utah.

Hell's Backbone Grill espouses the values of farm-to-table and local food.[4] The restaurant is supplied by the Hell's Backbone Farm, an organic farm which provides over 20,000 pounds of produce annually; other ingredients are obtained locally.[5]

Despite the remote location, Hell's Backbone Grill has been Zagat rated, receiving a score of 26 for food.[6]

It has received press coverage for both its improbable success and its owners' outspoken opposition to the shrinking of the Grand Staircase National Monument.[7]

In 2020, the James Beard Foundation nominated Hell’s Backbone for Best Chef in the Mountain region.[8]

References
  1. "Local Flavor: America's Best Farm-to-Table Restaurants", (October 2007). Gourmet.
  2. "Seasonal (Closed Part of the Year)", (October 2007). Gourmet.
  3. Schulz, Kathryn (September 24, 2018). "Why Two Chefs in Small-Town Utah Are Battling President Trump". The New Yorker. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  4. Fuller, Alexandra, (September 27, 2009). "Utopia on the Range". T: The New York Times Style Magazine, p. 40.
  5. Scheffler, Ted, (December 26, 2013). "Hell's Backbone Grill: Restaurant of the Year", Salt Lake City Weekly.
  6. "Salt Lake City Area's 10 Best Restaurants", (October 24, 2013). Zagat.
  7. "Why Two Chefs in Small-Town Utah Are Battling President Trump" by Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker (September 24, 2018)
  8. Mann, Court (2020-06-07). "'The Oscars of food' just honored this southern Utah restaurant. COVID-19 has made it bittersweet". Deseret News. Retrieved 2020-06-10.


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