Level Crossing Brewing Company — Restaurant in Salt Lake City

This place is a solid brewery that provides quality craft beer and good food.

There are some places that offer slightly better food, but lack in brewing their own beer. There are places that brew slightly better beer, but only have food trucks outside to provide food. As far as breweries go that have a full kitchen providing their own food this place ranks among the best.

The service is always top tier with fast and friendly bar staff. There are a couple TVs that will play sports at your request, but this is definitely not a sports bar and focuses on a clean, more quiet, friendly environment where you can easily chat with friends or meet new people.

They have a wide range of beer on draft to cater to the vast majority of tastes. From fruited sours to double and triple IPAs and everything in between it’s all worth trying to your preference. They also have a rotating nitro option on their draft beer so you can have a fresh take on something you may have had before.

I also want to mention that this place in the past used to definitely specialize in higher proof canned IPAs. They used to have a wide selection of delicious offerings that has thinned out lately, but what they still have is all worthwhile if you like IPAs.

In closing this is a great brewery that will likely hit all the right notes for what you may be looking for. I highly recommend it here, and personally...

Legitimately excellent pizza and beer, plus a great place to hang out.

Beer: the star of the show. The on-draft 5% beers (Utah law limits that, grr) are all pretty well crafted, super drinkable beers. The Vienna Lager is probably the standout here? A couple of good ones: In The Pines, the Kolsch.

The high-point ones are where the brews really shine, though: Space Oddity might be the best beer in Utah, unless Soulless Rex is. Cosmic Saunter and White Salamander are also great. Drinking one at the bar is great, taking them home even better.

Pizza: cooked in one of those fancy high-temp wood-fired ovens, Level Crossing pizza is legit among the best bar food I've had in America. The crust is perfect, red sauce a little tangy, italian seasonings added just the right amount. Awesome. (Also, the GOAT sandwich is my friend's favorite sandwich in the valley. I'm more pizza than sandwich oriented, but just FYI...)

Vibe: This is the Post District location, which is pretty new... they're just building out the nearby restaurants, so it feels a little sparse. Parking in a garage, mostly. But the patio is great during the summer and indoors is a cozy place to hang out... usually for me at the bar. No TVs when I visited, so be aware of that.

Overall, super glad this place exists... they did a great job with it. Def worth checking out if you live in SLC or if you're...

Just tried their VII XXV XVII Barrel Aged Wheatwine Ale. Oh WOW! Delicious dessert style beer. Not too heavy sweet barrel aged. Reminds me of Oakquinox, the beer festival Stone held very early in 2k after they moved from San Marcos CA to the next city over Escondido CA. I'm trying to remember if it was spelled Oakquinox, but anyways it had breweries around the world bring their many beer types aged in barrels from whiskeys, bourbons, tequila, many types of wines, and barrel wood types from different countries. This was the event to taste barrel aged beers from around the world. For $40 you had as many tasters as you wanted. I went to the first two events and then missed the third if there ever was a third event. It was a dangerous event. Uber and Lyft were not really a way to travel yet in 2001 to 2005. Stone made sure every entry ticket and advertisement pushed having a designated driver. Never saw this event again. Even with Uber and Lyft as popular as it is now. I miss Oakquinox and want to see another similar event again somewhere in the USA. Will definitely not be in UT, but maybe...