The story
Le Nonne is Italian for “grandmothers”
The restaurant was founded by PierAntonio Micheli, a native Italian. He was raised in a coastal town in Tuscany and grew up in the restaurant business. He learned to cook traditional Italian food from his grandmother and mother, and the name comes from them. He later went to culinary school, though he credited most of his cooking education to his family.
At 19 he left Italy to pursue a career in America. He worked as a head chef in Los Angeles, then in Hawaii, then opened his own restaurant in Salt Lake City, and on his father-in-law’s advice started over in Logan.
The restaurant is in a period-style house in downtown Logan, a couple of blocks from its origins on Main Street. The path to the door is lined with little white lights and a garden on each side.
From Logan Lunchroom, 2012, and The Utah Statesman, 2016.