Springville calls itself Art City, and the name shapes the town more than you would expect — the Springville Museum of Art anchors a walkable historic core, and Main Street still looks like a Main Street. What that means for eating is that Springville has two restaurant districts rather than one, and they feel nothing alike.
The first is Main Street, where the older, smaller rooms sit among century-old brick storefronts. The second is the west side, the commercial pocket around 1750 West and the I-15 interchange, where the newer arrivals have landed. Both are worth your time.
Here is where to eat, what Sunday actually looks like here, and a warning about the places the internet keeps insisting are in Springville.
Sunday is not the closed day you think it is
Start here, because the standard advice about eating in Utah Valley on a Sunday — including the advice this page used to give — is only half true in Springville.
The independents mostly do close. Goong, The Bowl Factory, Ginger's Garden Cafe, Magleby's and Rimmels all list Sunday closures, and Rimmels is shut Mondays as well. If your plan is a Main Street lunch, Sunday is the wrong day.
But the town's single biggest destination stays open. Strap Tank posts Sunday hours and runs a Sunday brunch service, which means the restaurant most people drive to Springville for is available on the day most people assume the town shuts.
And there is a legal reason it can be, which is the genuinely useful part. Utah's state liquor stores close on Sundays. Breweries, wineries and distilleries may sell their own products every day of the week, Sunday included. In a valley where a large share of independent restaurants close for the Sabbath, a brewery is structurally one of the more reliable Sunday rooms — not because of an attitude, but because of which license it holds. Our Strap Tank guide works through that in full, and our Sunday dining guide covers the wider valley pattern.
⚠ One caveat that has burned people: the Sunday brunch is a location-level thing, not a brand-level thing. Diners have shown up at the Lehi building for a brunch that was running in Springville. This is the store-level rule the whole site keeps running into — hours and service are set per address, not per sign — and it applies here as much as it applies to soda shops and grocery stores.
The two you drive to Springville for
Strap Tank Brewery at 596 S 1750 W is the genuine destination, and the story behind it is better than most restaurant stories in the valley. It was Utah County's first craft brewery in roughly a century — the Lehi location that people often assume came first actually opened second, in 2019. Founder Rick Salisbury named it after a 1907 Harley-Davidson Strap Tank, and that is not a decorative flourish.
The bike is real, and it is across the parking lot. Salisbury's Legends Motorcycles houses a collection of rare and vintage machines including the Strap Tank the brewery is named for — described by the operation as the best unrestored surviving example of the model, one of only three known. It is free to walk through, and its hours have generally run Tuesday to Saturday, which is the opposite of the brewery's pattern. Go for the burgers and the house beer, then walk across and look at the bikes. Few restaurants in Utah Valley give you a second reason to stay in the parking lot.
Magleby's at 198 S Main Street is the other anchor, and it is the original — the brand has since spread, but this is where it started. The restaurant traces its history to a retired dentist, David "Doc" Parkinson, and the breadsticks and desserts are what regulars will tell you about first. It is the reliable choice for a family dinner or a group that needs a real table rather than a counter.
What the beer laws mean for eating here
Springville is one of the few Utah Valley towns where the state's alcohol rules are visible on the plate rather than just in the background, so it is worth a paragraph.
Nothing on draft in Utah exceeds 5% ABV, and there is no brewpub exemption. Anything stronger is legally heavy beer and has to come in a bottle or a can. That ceiling was raised from 4% ABV on 1 November 2019, which is why older writing about Utah's famous "3.2 beer" describes a world that no longer exists.
The practical version for a visitor: the draft list at a Utah brewery is a session-strength list by law, not by choice, and the stronger beers are on the bottle menu. If someone tells you Utah breweries cannot make strong beer, they are describing a rule about the tap rather than a rule about the brewery. Our happy hour guide has the rest of the system.
Main Street
Ginger's Garden Cafe at 188 S Main is the most unusual room in town: it operates inside Dr. Christopher's Herb Shop, so you order lunch and then walk out through the herbs and essential oils. The kitchen is organic, scratch-made, and unusually serious about vegan and gluten-free cooking — reviewers with celiac disease single it out, which is not something you can say about many Utah County kitchens. Expect a wait at noon. There is a sign on the counter telling you as much.
Rimmels at 1180 N Main is the one that surprises people: German food, in Springville. It is closed Mondays as well as Sundays, so it takes a bit of planning.
La Casita at 333 N Main is the long-standing Mexican room on the north end, the one people who grew up here name first when you ask about a date-night meal from twenty years ago. Joe Bandito's at 1455 N Main covers the same cuisine at the far north end of the same street — two Mexican restaurants a mile apart on one road, which is more than most towns this size support.
Zubs Pizza & Subs at 520 N Main covers the counter-service end of Main Street.
The west side
Goong at 1851 W 500 S is Korean barbecue — marinated meats grilled at your table — plus a full sushi menu, in a small family-run room that opened in 2022. It draws people from outside the county, which is a fair signal. It's closed Sundays and the space is tight, so keep the group small.
The Bowl Factory at 694 W 400 S does build-your-own bowls in front of you.
Sidecar Café is the breakfast-and-coffee option out this way, and it is worth understanding what it actually is rather than treating it as a separate stop: it sits inside the Legends building on the same site as the brewery and is part of the same operation. Review platforms routinely file it as an unrelated business a few doors away, which is why people plan two trips to what is one car park.
Art City Coffee on 1750 West is the independent coffee option out that way, and Pueblo Coffee is the other local name.
Jake's Brookside at 410 S 400 E is the local convenience-store-plus-fountain hybrid rather than a restaurant, and it belongs on the list for the same reason soda shops belong on any Utah Valley list — a large fountain-drink selection is a category of its own here, and our soda shops guide explains why.
Bakeries, groceries and markets
Hills Bakery operates inside Ream's Springville Market at 759 E 400 S, which is a genuinely local arrangement — a bakery counter inside an independent grocery store rather than a standalone shop. ⚠ Worth knowing before you plan around it: Ream's Springville Market is closed on Sundays and sells no alcohol at all, which our grocery stores guide covers as part of the valley's store-by-store Sunday map.
The Springville Sunset Farmers Market runs Monday evenings at the Springville Civic Center through the summer season. It is the smallest of the valley's three main markets, and its value is the slot it occupies: Provo's market is Saturday morning and Orem's is Wednesday evening, so Springville's Monday completes a week in which you can shop a market three times without repeating a vendor list. Several of the valley's evening markets share one operator, so a grower you liked in Orem may well turn up here.
Eating around Art City Days and the World Folkfest
Two weeks a year the food situation in Springville changes completely, and both are worth planning around rather than stumbling into.
Art City Days in June is Springville celebrating itself — the town's own civic festival, with the food that comes with a city celebration. The World Folkfest in late July is Springville hosting the world: international dance companies performing over multiple nights, and a genuinely different crowd in town. Our things to do in Springville guide has both in detail, including the fact that the dates move and the surrounding programs have been expanding.
The practical eating advice for both: Main Street rooms are small, and a festival week fills them. If you want a sit-down meal on a festival evening, book it or eat early — or go west, where the parking and the seating are built for volume.
Eating in Springville by occasion
The town is small enough that the useful question is not "what is the best restaurant" but "what is open, and does it fit what I am doing."
Breakfast. Sidecar Café on the west side is the sit-down breakfast option, and it is attached to the motorcycle building rather than being a separate errand. Hills Bakery inside Ream's covers the pastry-and-go version, Monday to Saturday.
A quick weekday lunch. Main Street, and go before noon. Ginger's Garden Cafe and the counter-service rooms fill fast, and Ginger's puts a sign on its own counter warning you about the wait — which is a fair signal about both the queue and the kitchen.
A family dinner with a real table. Magleby's. It is the room built for a group that needs to sit together, and it is the reason the brand exists at all.
A dinner you would drive for. Strap Tank, and pair it with the motorcycle collection if you go while Legends is open — Tuesday to Saturday. Goong if you want the food to be the event rather than the building.
Something unexpected. Rimmels for German, Goong for Korean barbecue. Two cuisines within a few minutes of each other in a town this size is genuinely unusual, and both arrived recently enough that plenty of locals still have not been.
Sunday. Strap Tank, and plan the rest of the day around the fact that most of Main Street is shut.
Why the town has two districts at all
It is worth thirty seconds because it explains where the restaurants ended up.
Main Street is old, and it stayed relevant because of art. Springville has been calling itself Art City since long before the current downtown revival, and the reason is a juried exhibition rather than a building — the Spring Salon began in 1922 and, by the museum's own account, is what caused the Springville Museum of Art to be built rather than the other way round. A downtown with a museum in it keeps foot traffic that a downtown without one loses, which is why Main Street still has small independent rooms in it at all.
The west side is new, and it exists because of the freeway. The commercial pocket around 1750 West sits by the interstate, which is why the newer, larger, parking-heavy arrivals — including the brewery — are out there rather than downtown. It is a ten-minute drive between the two districts and they serve almost entirely different trips.
Our things to do in Springville guide covers the museum, the Folkfest and Hobble Creek Canyon in full.
A warning about lists for Springville
This is worth more attention here than in most cities, because Springville sits between Provo and Spanish Fork on the freeway and every proximity-based tool bleeds in both directions.
Search "restaurants in Springville" on the major review sites and you will confidently be shown Slackwater at the Riverwoods (Provo), Communal (Provo), Hakata Ramen (Provo), Aubergine Kitchen and The Italian Place (Spanish Fork). None of those are in Springville. They are good restaurants; they're just somewhere else. Communal is a downtown Provo restaurant and sits at the top of our Center Street dining guide.
A fresh example, checked for this update: at least one review platform ranks Chubby's Cafe among Springville's restaurants. Its address is 336 S Main Street — in Pleasant Grove, at the other end of the county, roughly half an hour north. Same street name, different city, and the platform's proximity logic never noticed.
The same error runs south. Magleby's, Ginger's Garden Cafe and Sidecar Café — all three of them here — turn up near the top of "best restaurants in Payson" results, which our south Utah County guide flags from the other side.
And two more that are not what they look like. Swad Cabin (Indian) is not in Springville — its address is 856 S Spanish Fork Parkway, in Spanish Fork. It is worth the short drive, and note it closes Tuesdays rather than Sundays. T-Bone Restaurant still has no Springville street address we can confirm; it may well be here, so check before you drive.
⚠ And one Springville name we are deliberately not recommending, for the opposite reason. Art City Trolley on North Main is the town's best restaurant story and its status is currently unclear. Jeff and Kelly Decker found a 1931 Brill Bullet trolley car in an almost abandoned state, spent six months restoring it with family and friends, and opened it as a roadside diner seating twenty-six on 5 February 1994. Two years later they added the "Trolley Station" building around it and the seating went to a hundred and fifteen; at its peak the baby back ribs were carrying a regional "best barbecue in the state" nod. Today at least one major platform flags the restaurant as closed, while other listings have described a remodel and a reopening. We are not going to resolve that from the outside, and we are not going to recommend a room we cannot confirm is open. Call before you drive — and if it is trading, it is the most interesting building you will eat in between Provo and Payson.
There's a newer and worse version of this problem. Several AI-written "best restaurants in Springville" pages currently circulating name Red Iguana, Settebello, Los Hermanos and The Egg & I as Springville staples. Red Iguana is a Salt Lake City institution. None of those four are Springville restaurants. If a list reads smoothly but never gives you a street address, that is the tell.
Check the address. It takes ten seconds and saves a twenty-minute drive.
Practicalities
The two districts have different parking. Main Street has street parking and small lots, and it fills at lunch. The west side around 1750 West is built for cars and is easier with a group or a stroller.
Hours move, and they move per location. Several of the independents here list different hours on different platforms — Ginger's is a repeat offender, with three sources giving three answers. Call, or check the restaurant's own page rather than an aggregator, before you drive. And when a business has more than one branch, check the branch: the Strap Tank brunch confusion is the local proof that a brand-level answer is not an address-level answer.
Weekday lunch is the safest window for the Main Street independents. Weekend evenings are the safest window for the west side. Sunday is workable if you are heading for the brewery and not much else.
For the rest of the valley, see our guides to the best restaurants in Provo, Spanish Fork and Pleasant Grove and Lindon. If you're making a day of it, we also have a guide to things to do in Springville and one on living in Springville.
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