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The Best Restaurants in Jackson Put the West on the Table
The town beneath the Tetons takes its appetite seriously, with enough good cooking to fill the hours between adventures.
By Eric Barton | Nov. 1, 2026
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AUTHOR BIO: Eric Barton is editor of The Adventurist and a freelance journalist who has reviewed restaurants for more than two decades. Email him here.
Jackson’s appetite for local ingredients extends well beyond the restaurants with wine cellars and tasting menus. Diners and casual breakfast spots get in on it too, putting elk burgers and bison sausage on menus. Even tomatoes, peppers, and strawberries that look like the height of summer have found a way around the growing season, ripening in high desert greenhouses while winter carries on outside. That attention to what grows and grazes nearby gives the best restaurants in Jackson Hole something in common, whether you’re ordering breakfast in hiking boots or settling in for a long dinner. Here’s where to eat in Jackson Hole, whatever the day has done to your appetite.
Bin22
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The wine bottles come first at Bin22, rows of them in a shop that eventually gives way to communal tables and the more immediate question of what to eat. Settle in with a glass and let chef Adrian Castaneda handle the solids: a meatball blanketed in house-pulled mozzarella, patatas bravas with paprika aioli, octopus over mashed potatoes with ’nduja. Castaneda grew up in Jackson, learned dough-making from his father, and now cooks the sort of Spanish- and Italian-leaning food that encourages a table to order one more plate.
Best for: Wine, tapas, and a communal table
Café Genevieve
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The log cabin at Café Genevieve has lived through rather a lot of Jackson history, and now spends its mornings receiving plates of eggs and people who’ve earned them, or intend to. Chef Joshua Governale puts a Southern accent on breakfast, setting Cajun eggs Benedict over housemade boudin and a French baguette, frying chicken to go beside waffles, and turning bacon into the sweet stuff known here as pig candy. On a warm day, a table outside and a Bloody Mary can do serious damage to the morning’s itinerary.
Best for: A long breakfast at the old cabin
Gather
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There’s an impressive portion of the Western animal kingdom in Gather’s elk bolognese—bison and Wagyu join the elk in a red sauce spooned over housemade pasta and finished with pecorino. Elsewhere, bison brisket gets an over-easy duck egg and a hash made with elk chorizo, while pork belly goes into soft bao with kimchi and Fresno chiles. The casual downtown restaurant makes a good landing place for a hungry table, including the person who has spent the entire day thinking about truffle pasta and would prefer everyone stop discussing the hike.
Best for: A hearty dinner after the trail
Glorietta Trattoria
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The wood-burning grill glows at the center of Glorietta, surrounded by the warm wood and tile of an Italian trattoria that has settled comfortably into Wyoming. Chef Remle Colestock gives the pasta a sense of where it’s being eaten: rye cavatelli gets elk bolognese, while giant fusilli curl around vodka sauce sharpened with spicy ’nduja. Begin with ricotta crostini drizzled in truffle honey and scattered with hazelnuts, choose an Italian bottle, and consider how much of the evening to devote to the business of another bowl.
Best for: Pasta beside the wood fire
Hand Fire Pizza
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You can still walk past the ticket booth at the old Teton Theater, where the marquee remains and the kitchen now supplies the entertainment. Hand Fire’s Chew-Baca pizza comes with herbed ricotta, bacon, caramelized onions, arugula, and a drizzle of spicy honey; the Bison of a Gun carries Wyoming bison chili, cheddar, and sour cream, as if somebody wondered how much of the state might fit on a crust. There’s space for families to spread out, and sharing a pie leaves a little of the vacation budget for tomorrow.
Best for: Sharing a pizza in the old theater
Kampai
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The distance between Jackson and Tokyo shrinks considerably at Kampai, where chef Chris Massad brings a childhood in Japan and training at Kyoto’s Taiwa Gakuen and Ginza’s Sushi Tokami to the sushi counter. Nigiri can build into dinner a piece at a time, with diversions for broiled eggplant under yuzu miso or gyoza filled with Wagyu and foie gras. For the evening when choosing has begun to feel like work, there’s omakase, a meal assembled with the chefs around sushi and sashimi, and a sake list deserving of a conversation.
Best for: Sushi, omakase, and good sake
The Kitchen
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At The Kitchen, pork dumplings arrive with fermented black beans, and pork belly finds its way into fried rice with kimchi. Chef Luis Hernandez worked his way through the restaurant group’s kitchens before taking over a restaurant dominated by a dramatic curving glass ceiling. Dinner might begin with salmon tartare and avocado mousse before moving on to savory mushroom bao buns with a tang from pickled onions. Leave a little room for the pork shank slow roasted for 72 hours and served with naan, kimchi, pickled vegetables, and yuzu aioli.
Best for: A table full of small plates, headlined by a three-day pork shank
Local Restaurant & Bar
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Local occupies a piece of Jackson’s town square and takes the steakhouse assignment down to the butchery, with dry-aged beef and housemade sausages among its reasons to settle in. Chef Will Bradof starts things off with buffalo tartare and black garlic aioli, or roasted marrow to spread over focaccia, before the larger cuts begin to arrive. At lunch, the same place will put a house-ground burger in front of you, an appealing compromise between the desire for a proper steakhouse and the afternoon’s remaining obligations.
Best for: A steakhouse dinner on the square
Persephone Bakery
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At Persephone, a croissant might hold dark Valrhona chocolate, or frangipane beneath a roof of toasted almonds, while the cinnamon brioche arrives rolled in another helping of cinnamon and sugar. Ali and Kevin Cohane built their French-style bakery in Jackson after time spent studying in Paris and Chicago, and the downtown café gives you reasons to stay: a croque madame under Mornay and a sunny egg, quiche Lorraine, coffee from Jackson Hole Roasters. Buy something for later too; the pastry case is a poor place to practice optimism about what will still be there in the afternoon.
Best for: A French pastry before heading out
Snake River Grill
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A steak tartare pizza sounds like the sort of idea somebody might have after a second glass of wine, and Snake River Grill has given it a permanent place among Jackson’s dinner plans. Executive chef-partner Addison Fleming carries on the restaurant’s long run on the square with potato rösti covered in smoked salmon and sour cream, rabbit ragù tangled through spinach pappardelle, and bison striploin with Hatch chile romesco. The rustic dining room has been part of the town’s evenings since 1993, long enough for dinner here to become a tradition of its own.
Best for: A classic Jackson evening
Steadfire Chophouse
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A dry-aging locker stands in the dining room at Steadfire, the Four Seasons’ chophouse in Teton Village. Chef Michael Goralski cooks steaks over open flame, including a changing butcher’s cut from Jackson’s 22 Wagyu and a bone-in bison New York strip. Sauces carry a little of the surrounding country: huckleberry, Wyoming whiskey, juniper, and spruce. You could follow all that with s’mores, but the corn husk meringue with sweet corn mascarpone and preserved peaches offers another way to end a meal rooted in what grows nearby.
Best for: Locally raised wagyu and a serious steakhouse dinner
Teton Tiger
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The menu at Teton Tiger crosses a good stretch of Asia before it ever gets to dinner: sweet chili ribs turn up with miso-blue-cheese dip, pork belly fills kimchi fried rice, and beef gets tossed through udon in the Shanghai noodles. Curries arrive with rice or flatbread, and a five-step heat scale gives you a chance to be honest about your abilities before the order reaches the kitchen. It’s a casual downtown stop for a bowl of something warming, with enough spice available to linger in the memory of anyone who overestimates level five.
Best for: Noodles and a curry with some heat
Trio An American Bistro
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Trio’s waffle fries arrive under blue cheese fondue, scallions, and black pepper, which is a persuasive opening argument for spending the evening at the bar. Bradof gives the rest of dinner equal attention, with bacon-infused tomato soup, wood-oven chicken, and coffee-rubbed venison shortloin over roasted-garlic polenta with mushroom bordelaise. There are pizzas too, including one covered with prosciutto and arugula, so a table can spend a long time negotiating how much dinner to order before returning, quite reasonably, to the question of more fries.
Best for: A bar seat and blue cheese waffle fries
Wild Sage
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Inside the luxurious Rusty Parrot Lodge, Wild Sage puts its kitchen in full view of the dining tables, with a stone fireplace and tall glass wine displays supplying their own reasons to look up between courses. The menu follows the season, including locally raised lamb in beet raviolini and roasted quail over farro spiked with olives. The comfortable 48-seat dining room is scaled for an night spent over a bottle, best done by retiring to the cozy lounge hiding just on the other side of the roaring fireplace.
Best for: A fireside dinner at the Rusty Parrot
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