Hell's Backbone Grill is a restaurant located in Boulder, Utah near the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument."Local Flavor: America's Best Farm-to-Table Restaurants", (October 2007). Gourmet."Seasonal (Closed Part of the Year)", (October 2007). Gourmet. The restaurant serves a style of "Four Corners Cuisine": an updated combination of cowboy classics, Mormon recipes, and traditional Southwestern fare.
Hell's Backbone Grill espouses the values of farm-to-table and local food.Fuller, Alexandra, (September 27, 2009). "Utopia on the Range". T: The New York Times Style Magazine, p. 40. 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.Scheffler, Ted, (December 26, 2013). "Hell's Backbone Grill: Restaurant of the Year", Salt Lake City Weekly.
Despite the remote location, Hell's Backbone Grill has been Zagat rated, receiving a score of 26 for food."Salt Lake City Area's 10 Best Restaurants", (October 24, 2013). Zagat.
It has received press coverage for both its improbable success and its owners' outspoken opposition to the shrinking of the Grand Staircase National Monument."Why Two Chefs in Small-Town Utah Are Battling President Trump" by Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker (September 24, 2018)
In 2020, the James Beard Foundation nominated Hell's Backbone for Best Chef in the Mountain region. The Foundation recognized the restaurant again in March 2022 with their most prestigious nomination to date. Their selection in the Outstanding Restaurant category was a first for any Utah restaurant in the history of the awards.
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