# Food & Dining search demand in Salt Lake City THE SEARCH LEDGER · SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH · FOOD & DINING Every month Salt Lake City types 2,033,270 food & dining searches into Google. This is the public record of what those searches are, what they cost, and who currently answers them. BY [SEO BANDWAGON](https://seobandwagon.com/about) · UPDATED WEEKLY · COLLECTED SEP 8, 2026 · [HOW THIS PAGE IS MADE](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/salt-lake-city/food-dining#colophon) 576 KEYWORDS TRACKED Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Salt Lake City metro, Sep 8, 2026 2,033,270 SEARCHES / MONTH Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Salt Lake City metro, Sep 8, 2026 $1.7M MONTHLY AD VALUE Source: volume × CPC, computed $1.57 AVERAGE CPC Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Salt Lake City metro, Sep 8, 2026 ## When Salt Lake City searches for food & dining Relative search interest by month, indexed 0–100. The pink outline marks the peak. Interest runs highest in AUG and lowest in JAN. Search interest by month, indexed 0 to 100: January 74, February 74, March 98, April 85, May 99, June 96, July 96, August 100, September 87, October 88, November 84, December 85. Source: [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com/) relative interest for the Food & Dining category in Salt Lake City — a 0–100 index, not a search count. One curve per category is the granularity available; it is not split per keyword. ## What Salt Lake City pays per click for food & dining The 20 highest-volume of 576 tracked keywords, priced at what advertisers actually bid. The dearest click here is **“sapa sushi slc”** at $4.74. | # | KEYWORD | VOL/MO | CPC | DIFFICULTY | INTENT | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | restaurants near me | 1,220,000 | $0.59 | 7 | transactional | | 2 | breakfast near me | 135,000 | $0.52 | 23 | transactional | | 3 | coffee shops near me | 90,500 | $0.41 | 0 | transactional | | 4 | pizza near me | 90,500 | $1.25 | 12 | transactional | | 5 | bars near me | 60,500 | $1.05 | 0 | transactional | | 6 | r&r bbq slc | 40,500 | $1.95 | 16 | commercial | | 7 | dining slc | 33,100 | $1.04 | 23 | commercial | | 8 | salt lake restaurants | 33,100 | $1.04 | 23 | commercial | | 9 | evas bakery slc | 18,100 | $0.84 | 26 | commercial | | 10 | top restaurants in slc | 14,800 | $0.96 | 3 | commercial | | 11 | food in slc | 9,900 | $0.76 | 18 | commercial | | 12 | the park cafe salt lake city | 9,900 | $0.90 | 0 | commercial | | 13 | brunch slc | 8,100 | $0.98 | 0 | commercial | | 14 | restaurants downtown slc | 8,100 | $1.07 | 14 | commercial | | 15 | breakfast in slc | 8,100 | $0.74 | 0 | commercial | | 16 | bar in slc | 6,600 | $1.45 | 20 | commercial | | 17 | bars in salt lake | 6,600 | $1.45 | 0 | commercial | | 18 | sapa sushi slc | 6,600 | $4.74 | 0 | commercial | | 19 | slc sushi | 5,400 | $0.63 | 13 | commercial | | 20 | bambara restaurant salt lake city | 5,400 | $1.93 | 0 | commercial | Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Salt Lake City metro, Sep 8, 2026. Volume and CPC are [Google Ads](https://ads.google.com/home/tools/keyword-planner/) twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week. Difficulty is DataForSEO’s 0–100 score. ## Who owns the Salt Lake City food & dining results Live position tracking for 2 of the tracked keywords in this vertical — who Google puts in the [map pack](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-pack), and who holds page one. restaurants near me 1,220,000/mo · $0.59 CPC · difficulty 7 MAP PACK - 1 Lake Effect 4.3★ 2,900 - 2 White Horse Spirits & Kitchen 4.6★ 2,200 - 3 Gracie's 4.2★ 4,100 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 visitsaltlake.com - 2 gastronomicslc.com - 3 tripadvisor.com - 4 ubereats.com - 5 yelp.com r&r bbq slc 40,500/mo · $1.95 CPC · difficulty 16 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 randrbbq.com - 2 yelp.com - 3 tripadvisor.com - 4 grubhub.com - 5 instagram.com LOCAL Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Salt Lake City metro, Sep 8, 2026. LOCAL marks an organic domain that matches a business tracked in this metro; an unmarked domain is simply not one of them, which includes directories and firms we do not track. ## The food & dining businesses competing in Salt Lake City The 12 most-reviewed businesses we track in this vertical, with the profile signals that put them where they are. | RANK | BUSINESS | RATING | REVIEWS | CATEGORY | WEBSITE | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | #1 | Sol Agave | 4.9 ★ | 7,133 | Mexican | YES | | #2 | Spitz Mediterranean Street Food | 4.7 ★ | 5,847 | Mediterranean | YES | | #3 | Gourmandise | 4.5 ★ | 5,664 | Restaurant | YES | | #4 | Slackwater Sandy | 4.6 ★ | 4,437 | Pizza | YES | | #5 | Ruth's Chris Steak House | 4.7 ★ | 4,274 | Steak | YES | | #6 | The Pie Pizzeria - Underground | 4.6 ★ | 4,233 | Pizza | YES | | #7 | Settebello Pizzeria Napoletana | 4.5 ★ | 4,168 | Pizza | YES | | #8 | Settebello Pizzeria Napoletana | 4.5 ★ | 4,168 | Pizza | YES | | #9 | Gracie's | 4.2 ★ | 4,122 | Bar | YES | | #10 | The Pie Pizzeria - South Salt Lake | 4.6 ★ | 3,996 | Pizza | YES | | #11 | The Bayou | 4.6 ★ | 3,968 | Grill | YES | | #12 | Benihana - Salt Lake City | 4.3 ★ | 3,895 | Japanese | YES | Source: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps) listings, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Salt Lake City metro, Sep 8, 2026. Ranked by review count, which is a proxy for how established a listing is — not a ranking claim. ## Food & Dining brands Salt Lake City searches by name Branded demand is the clearest read on who has built recall here — searches for a business by name, the volume nobody has to bid for. best coffee in salt lake 1,600/mo brazilian grill slc 1,300/mo the gateway 720/mo honest eatery slc 260/mo sonoma grill slc 90/mo trolley square 70/mo salt lake eatery 40/mo kathmandu grill slc 30/mo Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Salt Lake City metro, Sep 8, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set. ## What Salt Lake City asks about food & dining People Also Ask questions collected verbatim from Salt Lake City food & dining results — the literal wording Google is already surfacing. What is the 30/30/30 rule for restaurants? What are some must-go restaurants in Salt Lake City? What is the best place to have lunch in Salt Lake City? What are some hidden gems in downtown Salt Lake City? What does R&R BBQ in Salt Lake City have on their menu? What are people saying about R&R BBQ in Salt Lake City? Is R&R BBQ a chain? Where can I find the best barbecue in Salt Lake City? Source: Google People Also Ask, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Salt Lake City metro, Sep 8, 2026. Questions are reproduced as collected; we do not answer them here. ## Rank for these searches Everything above is the market. If you want to be in it, start with where you stand today. [SCAN YOUR SITE FREE](https://seobandwagon.com/#scan) [Restaurant SEO](https://seobandwagon.com/restaurant-seo) ## More Salt Lake City search data Every other vertical we track in this metro, with its monthly search demand. 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Keyword volume and cost-per-click come from Google Ads via DataForSEO and are twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week — a weekly delta on either would measure the averaging window, not the market. Map-pack and organic positions are a live SERP read taken Sep 8, 2026. Sections with no data are omitted rather than filled. Salt Lake City, Utah · Food & Dining · 576 keywords · collected Sep 8, 2026 Collected and published by [SEO Bandwagon](https://seobandwagon.com/about), tracking [local search](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-search) since 2010. These 576 food & dining keywords come from the same weekly sweep as [Google Business Profile Benchmarks](https://seobandwagon.com/research/gbp-benchmarks), whose method and verification are published in full. 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