Drinking in Salt Lake City

• State Liquor Stores: All packaged liquor, wine, and heavy beer (more than 5% ABV) must be purchased from a Utah state liquor store. The closest location to the Salt Palace Convention Center  is about a 18-20 minute walk or a 5 minute drive. Get a complete list of all store and package agency locations here.
    
• Grocery and Convenience Stores: Beer and similar products like hard seltzers may be purchased at most grocery and convenience stores in Utah. Wine is not available in grocery stores and can only be bought at authorized state stores.
   
• Hotels: Alcohol must be ordered through the front desk, as they just need to check IDs.

A person who enters Utah may possess for personal consumption and not for sale or resale, a maximum of nine liters of liquor purchased from outside the state.

Utah’s blood alcohol content limit is 0.05 percent, marking the strictest DUI law in the country.
There is great coverage of the metropolitan area with taxis, Uber and LYFT and Utah Transit authority busses and light rail, making it easy to get around for a night on the town.

No. State law prohibits consuming liquor in public places.
A person may not be intoxicated in a public place to a degree as to endanger himself or another, or unreasonably disturb others. Consuming or having an open container of alcohol in the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle is prohibited.

As a general rule, alcoholic beverage may not be brought into an establishment that’s open to the general public if it is to be consumed on the premises. Wine may be brought into a restaurant that is licensed to sell wine. Corkage fees vary by restaurant.

Exceptions are only when consuming alcohol at a public or community event that is permitted by the state to sell and serve alcoholic beverages.