Coffee shops in Salt Lake City, UT
Every shop here is open and doing something right, so treat it like a coffee crawl through Salt Lake City, in person or virtually: study how each bar is laid out, read the menu, and get a feel for the brand from their own site. Shops that roast their own beans are marked.
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Coffee shops & roasters
Crawl these cafes and roasters for bar layout, menu, and brand ideas.
- 4.4(2,404)saltlake.littleamerica.com
- 4.6(2,055)sugarhousecoffee.com
- 4.3(1,697)theroseestb.com
- Coffee GardenCafe4.6(1,593)coffeegardenslc.com
- 4.6(1,580)publikcoffee.com
- 4.4(1,372)g.page
- Alchemy CoffeeCafe4.6(1,274)alchemycoffee.com
- 4.6(1,163)roasting.com
- Cupla CoffeeCafe4.5(1,063)cuplacoffee.com
- 4.5(808)threepinescoffee.com
- Sunroom CoffeeCafe4.5(792)sunroomcoffeeco.com
- 4.6(787)millcreekcoffee.com
- 4.6(777)peoplescoffeeco.com
- Kahve Cafe SLCCafe4.8(696)kahvecafeslc.com
- 4.5(669)bluecopperslc.com
- 4.5(635)beansandbrews.com
- 4.7(588)lokicoffeeco.com
- 4.8(571)rootscoffeeutah.com
Coffee carts
Coffee carts, trucks, and trailers working this market — a lower-overhead way in.
- 4.9(53)roamingroastcoffee.square.site
- Cult Coffee TruckMobile cart4.9(11)cultcoffeetruck.com
Salt Lake City market snapshot
The customer base behind the coffee scene — who lives here, what they earn, and how many coffee shops already serve them. Use it to size up demand before you commit.
Salt Lake City has 9.6 coffee shops per 100k residents. That's above the directory median of 6.3 — a crowded scene where differentiation matters.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates (via Census Reporter), 2024 release. Coffee-shop density is ShopLaunch directory data. Figures describe the Census place (Salt Lake City, UT); college, airport, industry, and other signals are coming in a later pass.
Similar coffee markets
Cities whose demographics most resemble Salt Lake City, ranked by an objective match across population, income, age, education, unemployment, commute, and coffee-shop density. A close model for what might work here.
- Grand Rapids, MI198,535 people$69,108 median incomeClose on market size & coffee-shop density
- Lexington, KY323,725 people$69,479 median incomeClose on college-educated share & household income
- Durham, NC291,467 people$81,619 median incomeClose on unemployment & market size
- Madison, WI278,001 people$78,050 median incomeClose on commute time & household income
Permits in Salt Lake City
Most coffee shops, carts, and trailers in Salt Lake City fall under Salt Lake County, where the Salt Lake County Health Department, Food Protection issues the food and mobile-vending permits you need to open. The county guide lays out the exact permits, offices, and fees in the order to tackle them.
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