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After a decade in SLC’s Central 9th, this restaurant says it’s being forced to leave. Here’s what’s next.

“You don’t have a say in [your] destiny sometimes,” Laziz Kitchen’s owner says of its closure next month.

(Trent Nelson  |  The Salt Lake Tribune) Laziz Kitchen in Salt Lake City in March 2021. The Mediterranean restaurant weathered the COVID-19 pandemic during its 10-year run in the Central 9th neighborhood, but will close in September 2026 after losing its lease.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Laziz Kitchen in Salt Lake City in March 2021. The Mediterranean restaurant weathered the COVID-19 pandemic during its 10-year run in the Central 9th neighborhood, but will close in September 2026 after losing its lease.