RED IGUANA chosen by AAA members one of 24 TOP RESTAURANTS in California, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho & Utah.  http://www. viamagazine.

We were featured in Trip Tease, a new online magazine this month!  They said, "What could possibly cause people to line up for a wait in the frosty air of a Salt Lake City winter evening?  Or in the heat of summer?  Or any other day? Red Iguana's claim to "killer Mexican food" is no typical American boast.   And this fare is not classic Americanized "Mexican".   This is Mexican food, the real deal, like abuela used to make.

#AAAInspector 15: Killer moles! Dark, chunky, crunchy, fruity, sweet & spicy. They're all here @RedIguanaOG #SLC View HERE.

"TripAdvisor is delighted to recognize Red Iguana with a 2013 Certificate of Excellence. This award, which places you in the top-performing 10% of all businesses worldwide on TripAdvisor, is given to businesses that consistently earn high ratings from TripAdvisor travelers. " Wow, #Grateful Thank you to all our loyal customers and travelers that have shared in the Cardenas Family Legacy all these years.

"Does Salt Lake City have "better" restaurants than Red Iguana? Probably. It certainly has more expensive restaurants. But, at the urging of several locals, I visited one night and was treated to a server just as enthusiastic for my love of mole as I am.

Saturday April 13 10AM-10PM, Ride Free! (with donated can of food), Free Entertainment/Food at each stop! Red Iguana Stop-Jackson/Euclid (800 West & North Temple) .

  "Yes, there may come a day when Red Iguana won’t win City Weekly’s Best Mexican award; that’s when pigs will fly. A perennial readers’ favorite, Red Iguana is the longtime champ in this category for its wide-ranging, always-appealing Mexican cuisine and a menu that travels from Oaxaca with its magnificent moles to Veracruz (pescado a la Veracruzana), and from Tampico’s carne asada to New Mexican chile Colorado. Amazingly, given the big crowds at Red Iguana, the servers are always smiling, professional and friendly.

FOOD RADAR 2012 Red Iguana ". . .

UTAH VALLEY FOODIE Red Iguana "I'd be willing to bet that this is one of the best Mexican restaurants in the nation. We, and many people we know, occasionally go on special dates to Salt Lake City, so this is a place we highly, highly recommend. We like to take our children here after doing something fun in the city.

Salt Lake City Weekly by Randy Harward Posted 01/22/2009 "Every Red Iguana patron has seen the jaunty cholo script on the restaurant’s Wall of Fame that reads "Los Lobos. " Maybe you’re one such diner, and a fan of the band? If so, you might have zoned out over your food and imagined the band members, themselves high on the Iguana’s killer mole dishes (¡y cervezas, órale!), whipping out Sharpies and making their mark, which has become the cool nucleus of the green Red Iguana wall. It must be analogous to Zorro carving his trademark Z, a monument to some mythic moment in time.