No photo of this bar survives from the 2008 site.

Johnny Utah's

25 W. 51st St · btwn 5th & 6th Ave
Midtown West, Manhattan

In 2026

Closed

Last licensed here under this name: 2019–21.

Checked October 16, 2026.

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Overview

A genuine taste of the suburban Southwest. The food here is easily on par with TGI Friday's and the cocktails would give anything at Hooters a run for its money. Best yet they've got the city's first mechanical bull, the perfect after dinner stomach mixer.

History

The bull has been put out to pasture

Johnny Utah's was a Southwestern-themed restaurant at the Rockefeller Center Hotel, set to open on July 11, 2007, with a mechanical bull¹. Our old listing called that mechanical bull, the city's first, the perfect after-dinner stomach mixer. That July, though, it was running full-page ads while the place still looked at least a good month out². By 2023 a leasing flyer was offering the space for immediate possession, "Previously Johnny Utah's"³.

Sources

Researched October 2026.

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