4 Best Restaurants in Park City and the Wasatch Back, Park City and the Southern Wasatch

Handle was voted Best Restaurant in Park City in 2017 thanks to chef Briar Handly's inventive American dishes. Small plates make it easy to try everything, and you'll want to with dishes like buffalo cauliflower, smoked trout sausage, and the chef's famous fried chicken. The creative and knowledgeable bar staff will surprise you with inspired handcrafted cocktails. Save room for inventive, delectable desserts like the Handle Bar, made with local maple ice cream dipped in milk chocolate and topped with a brown butter crumble.

This Main Street staple has delighted guests since the mid-1990s with a modern Italian menu in an airy café with the best patio in town. The restaurant serves well-prepared pasta and seafood dishes using only fresh ingredients for lunch and dinner. Good picks include the veal Bolognese with pappardelle pasta or herb-breaded Utah trout with citrus butter.

The team at The Farm relentlessly seeks new, fresh, and unique ingredients to infuse into memorable meals in the restaurant's open kitchen. Seasonal menus always spotlight items from the region's sustainable farms, including root vegetables, truffles, berries, and meat. Located in Canyons Village, The Farm is just steps from the slopes on the back side of the Grand Summit Hotel. The darker and cozier lounge features a wine cellar that displays many of its 450-plus varieties of domestic and imported wines.

Plenty of purple-hue touches—velvet upholstered booths, hand-painted scrims, and Western murals—brighten the 1898 brick building that was once the local telegraph office. "Fancy cowboy" cuisine includes such dishes as grilled veal meat loaf with poblano peppers and pine nuts or the lime-grilled black tiger shrimp. In summer, eat on the back deck under the charming bistro lights.