Best Pork Chops / Best Pork Dinners in Utah
Also please visit our site on "Best BBQ in Utah" for details of good places and what to get there.
Revised: 26 June 2018
Note: The first 8 below are all As and A minuses!
1. Copper Onion, downtown SLC - best pork chop we've had (we had their amazing winter version - they change with the seasons - with great creamy polenta, pearl onions, red peppers, etc - fantastic, tender chop
2. Copper Common (former location of Plum Alley, with same owner - they kept this dish)- pork belly in steamed bun
3. Jupiter Bowl bowling alley cafe, Park City. pork belly
3a. Carraba's pork tenderloin with fig sauce (B+) and gorgonzola sauce combined A
3b. The Garden, SLC, baby pork chop A-
4. Romano Macaroni Grill, national chain - pork chop A-
5. Carraba's Grill, national chain - pork chop A-
6. Romano's Macaroni Grill, national chain - pork shank with veges A-
7. Outback.
a. maple mustard glazed pork chop (no mustard or maple flavor but very good seasoning)
B+
Note other pork dishes at Outback:
b. pork porterhouse:
1. tenderloin part B/B+
2. NY strip part B-
Note: pork tenderloin (discontinued) roasted all day, whereas the 2 above are cooked to order. Overdone and tough. Tender if pink. sold few, so discontinued. Not tested.
8-10. n/a
11. CJ Bakery and Grill, SLC - pork chop - nice char-grilled flavor B+
12. Seigfried's Deli, downtown SLC, roast pork leg (traditional German method; the tender portions especially, usually next to the bone, are very, very good). Order in advance and get it fresh. B/B+
13. Communal, Provo - pork chop. B
14. Chick's Cafe, Heber city - pork chop - plain as day but decent cut of pork, better than all those that didn't make the list. It has no seasoning. B
15. Harvest, Lehi - pork chop (texture/toughness average; Italian sauce) C+
Great places with not so great pork dishes:
a. Pago, pork tenderloin C+/B-
Best Veal in Utah (obviously unrelated to pork, as it is young beef, but we are adding it to this site:)
2017:
Left Fork Grill, Midvale
veal marsala B-
marsala alone: B
veal alone B+
veal with lemon butter B+/A-
veal (and no marsala) with mash B/B+
