Dinner and a Show: Where to Eat Before the Eccles Theater
A night at the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater — Salt Lake's gleaming Broadway house on Main Street — deserves a meal that lives up to the marquee. The touring productions that roll through are the real deal, and the last thing you want is to spend the first act thinking about how rushed and forgettable dinner was. Here's how to bookend the show.
Before the curtain. Beat the pre-show crush and grab dinner somewhere you can actually hear yourself think. Litzas is a short hop from the theater district, and a hand-tossed pie with a basket of garlic bread is a far better pre-curtain meal than a hurried counter sandwich — fast, genuinely satisfying, and substantial enough that you won't be hunting for snacks by intermission. Order ahead and you're in and out with time to spare, which matters when the house lights are dimming on a schedule. Sixty years of feeding Salt Lake means they know how to turn a table without rushing you out the door.
After the encore. Walk the show off on Regent Street, the lively pedestrian lane tucked right alongside the Eccles, lined with places to land for a post-show treat. The easy win is Rockwell Ice Cream, whose downtown scoop shop sits just steps from the theater doors — super-premium, locally made, and the perfect setting for the inevitable "okay, but can we talk about that second act" debrief. Get the Rockwell Road and find a bench.
Dinner that fuels you, a show that wows you, and a scoop of something excellent on the walk back to the car. That's a Salt Lake night done properly.
