Best Salt Lake City, UT Nightlife

  • Fiddlers Elbow
  • Junior's Tavern
  • Piper Down
  • Desert Edge Brewery At The Pub
  • Red Rock Brewing Company
  • Porcupine Pub & Grille
  • Club Sound
  • Squatters Pub Brewery
  • Bayou
  • Fiddlers Elbow

    Fiddlers Elbow

    Fiddler's Elbow is one of the biggest and friendliest hangs in all of Sugarhouse. At once a pub and restaurant, Fiddler's Elbow has more than 30 beers on...

    Photo courtesy of Jennifer Boren
  • Junior's Tavern
  • Piper Down

    Piper Down

    For most of its life, Piper Down was a dark, hole-in-the-wall, Irish bar on State Street. With no windows and a somewhat off-central location, this was...

  • Desert Edge Brewery At The Pub

    Desert Edge Brewery At The Pub

    Tucked covertly into the upper recesses of Trolley Square, the Desert Edge Brewery is one of Salt Lake City's most popular and oldest breweries. Founded in...

    Photo courtesy of Jennifer Boren
  • Red Rock Brewing Company
  • Porcupine Pub & Grille

    Porcupine Pub & Grille

    Porcupine Pub stands directly beneath the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon, and precisely along the way from Little Cottonwood Canyon to Salt Lake City. So no...

    Photo courtesy of Jennifer Boren
  • Club Sound
  • Squatters Pub Brewery

    Squatters Pub Brewery

    Squatters was founded as a brewery in 1989, with its first beers being served in September of that year at the very same West Broadway location in Salt Lake...

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  • Bayou

    Bayou

    The Bayou has invented a niche its own, and a brilliant one at that. At once a restaurant, high-end beer bar, pool hall, and jazz venue, The Bayou offers...

    Photo courtesy of Jennifer Boren
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About Salt Lake City, UT Nightlife

Salt Lake City has a surprisingly vibrant and liberal nightlife scene flies in the face of its conservative reputation. True, SLC has no proper “bar crawl,” and its liquor laws are noticeably more restrictive than in other cities across the nation. However, to the great joy of revelers, the recent decades have brought about a rapid loosening of these laws. And what the city lacks in back-to-back pubs and free-flowing pours, it makes up for in popular events and live music.

Any given week, you might have the option to catch live jazz at The Bayou, to dance to a local band at Urban Lounge, to savor a Utah Symphony concert, or to enjoy a free, outdoor show in Downtown Salt Lake. If you prefer DJs in dance clubs, check out the events calendars of the city’s best venues like Area 51, The Hotel or Club Sound.

No matter what you do, make sure to do a little research before going out. People who leave SLC disappointed with its after-dark offerings, more often than not, simply haven’t taken the time to locate the city’s best offerings!

Christine Balaz

About Christine Balaz

Christine Balaz began her unexpected writing career in Salt Lake City with her first book on Wasatch Skiing and Travel in 2006. On the subject of Utah, Christine has written numerous travel books, iPhone apps, and never-ending web content. As a rock climber, outdoors enthusiast and insatiable explorer, Christine has journeyed through nearly every corner of Utah, and...  Read More

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