Best Restaurants in Moab, Utah (Full Review)

Moab, Utah, is the gateway city to both Canyonlands and Arches National Parks. If you’re visiting these national parks, you’ll definitely be spending some time in the city of Moab. After a day full of adventuring, nothing is better than refueling with an amazing meal. In this post, we’re putting together a list of the best places to eat in Moab. We recently visited Moab, and we really enjoyed the dining options the city had to offer. In fact, the food in Moab was one of the highlights of our three-week road trip across the southwest! In this post, we’re sharing our picks for the best restaurants in Moab. We highly recommend that you visit these restaurants during your trip to Moab!

Map of Best Restaurants in Moab, Utah

We created this map so that you can easily see where each recommended restaurant is located:

List of the Best Restaurants in Moab

Here’s our choices for some of the best restaurants in Moab!

Moab Diner

Address: 189 South Main Street, Moab, UT 84532

The Moab Diner is famous for its signature green chili, and it did not disappoint! We couldn’t get enough of their green chili. We seriously couldn’t stop talking about how good it was! When you visit the Moab Diner, we recommend that you get a bowl of it. Their green chili is also slathered on many of their burritos, sandwiches, and more.

The Moab Diner has been a part of Moab for a long time. It was first named the Poor Boy Drive-Inn in the early 1960s. Since then, it has evolved from a burger joint, to an ice cream parlor, to the diner it is today. It’s clearly a popular place, so plan to get there early to avoid a wait. It was packed when we visited, so we ended up getting our meal to-go and walking back to our hotel to eat. (A really great incentive for staying in town is to be within walking distance of these great restaurants!)

We ordered a bowl of the green chili (pictured below) and the Kokopelli Chicken Dinner ($5.75 and $11.50 as of this posting in 2021). The green chili photo may not look especially beautiful, but trust us it tastes amazing. Next time we go back we want to try the Green Chili Cheese Fries and the Breakfast Burrito. Pretty much anything covered with their green chili would be delicious!

Doughbird

Address: 125 North Main Street, Moab, UT 84532

Doughbird specializes in donuts, chicken sandwiches, and coffee. We visited for breakfast and made sure to return the next day for lunch as well. We rarely go to the same restaurant twice while on vacation, because we like to try different places, but we had to come back to try more flavors of donuts as well as their crispy chicken sandwiches.

When planning your trip, just note that as of this writing, they are closed on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. They open at 7am for donuts. They start serving chicken sandwiches at 11am.

When we visited, we tried four different donuts over the course of two days: The Red Velvet, Choco Cookie Crumble, Chocolate Glazed, and Cronut (half glazed with chocolate). After a lot of deliberation, our two favorites were the Red Velvet and Chocolate Glazed. The Red Velvet has great texture: crispy on the outside and cake-like on the inside. We liked the Chocolate Glazed because the yeast dough rose higher than any other donut we have seen and it was delicious! If you’re wondering where to eat in Moab, Utah, you need to check out Doughbird!

We came back for lunch the next day to try their crispy chicken sandwiches. You can choose the heat factor that you would like (no heat, mild, medium, hot, and melt your cluckin’ face off). The crispy chicken sandwiches were equally delicious. We were craving those sandwiches long after we left Moab!

Gloria’s Corner Cafe

Address: 20 S Main Street, Moab, UT, 84532

We visited Gloria’s Corner Cafe several times for smoothies during our trip and once for lunch. While traveling on vacation, it can be difficult to find healthy food on the go. We really liked their smoothies because they were packed with lot of fruits and vegetables! We ordered them to-go to fuel before a hike or to replenish when we were back in town. The smoothies were also a good option for our toddler to get an extra boost of nutrition. We liked dining at Gloria’s because they have a nice outdoor patio area.

Crystal’s Cakes and Cones

Address: 26 W Center St, Moab, UT, 84532

We visited Moab in June, when the weather was very hot. We really enjoyed cooling down at Crystal’s Cakes and Cones for ice cream after dinner. They also had a good cupcake selection! If you’re looking for a dessert spot, we’d highly recommend stopping by. 

Zax Restaurant

Address: 96 South Main St, Moab, Utah, 84532

We went to Zax for their pizzas! All of their pizzas are cooked in a wood-fired brick oven. We split a large Ramon Pizza (homemade tomato sauce, pepperoni, sausage, green pepper, onion, and mozzarella cheese). We sat in the second floor patio with a nice view of the street. The food was so good, we forgot to take a picture! We did snap a photo, however, of our daughter enjoying the water misters to keep cool.

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