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Alex Springer
Critic · Journalist — Salt Lake restaurants across every price band, and Utah craft beer.
Listed with the critics and writers in Salt Lake City.
Alex Springer was Salt Lake City Weekly's dining editor and the city's only alt-weekly restaurant critic, writing unscored narrative reviews and an annual best-dishes roundup. He left the post in July 2026 and no successor has been named, so his back catalogue is finite and is the closest thing this city has to a staff critic's archive.
Their own reviews and picks.
Their own judgment, in their own words, by the piece it appeared in.
- City Weekly ↗their review · 2025-01-15
- Bhansa GharSouth Salt Lake
“making this one of the best iterations of butter chicken that I've come across.”
- Bhansa GharSouth Salt Lake
- City Weekly ↗their review · 2024-12-11
- MatteoDowntown
“This was one of those moments where I realized that all of my previous risotto experiences were nothing but counterfeits.”
- MatteoDowntown
- City Weekly ↗their review · 2024-07-24
- Drunken KitchenSouth Salt Lake
“I'd also say that the Taiwanese beef noodle soup at Drunken Kitchen is right there among the best.”
- Drunken KitchenSouth Salt Lake
Pieces they wrote about these places.
Reporting, openings and roundups. Kept for the trail, and not read as their endorsement — a writer relaying someone else's award is not recommending it.
- City Weekly, Restaurant Roundup: 2025's Best Dishes ↗roundup · 2025-12-31
- JunahCentral Ninth
no verbatim line captured from this piece
- JunahCentral Ninth