The Salt Lake City outlet of a chain restaurant — a location famous for its role in luring a TV star to move to Utah — is closing.

The Chili’s restaurant at 668 E. 400 South will close on May 4, an employee there confirmed Tuesday. The chain — known for its baby back ribs and fajitas — has seven other Utah locations; those will remain open, the employee said.

The Salt Lake City location, which opened in 1995, picked up local lore when Tan France, one of the hosts of TV’s “Queer Eye,” described how the restaurant played a role in his move to Utah.

In a 2018 interview with The Salt Lake Tribune, France described how he was living in New York with a Utah-native housemate when, in 2006, he made a visit to Utah. He had been here “for about 20 minutes,” he said, when he decided he would make a home here.

“I went out to dinner at Chili’s on Fourth South,” France said in 2018, “and at the end of that meal, I said to my friend, ‘I’m going to live here one day.’”

Salt Lakers “are some of the nicest people I’ve ever met,” he added. “And I can see the mountains from this restaurant, and that’s beautiful.”

After that pivotal moment, France said he returned to Utah every three or for months. A couple of years later, he met his husband, illustrator Rob France.

“We started to date and then, yeah, I realized he was the one very shortly after that,” Tan France said. “So I planned on Utah being my home.”

“There are so many things that kept me here,” he said in 2018. “And, most importantly, I found the most incredible friend group. So it truly is my favorite place on Earth.”