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AMERICA’S BEST WINE RESTAURANTS THE DEFINITIVE LIST OF WHERE TO DRINK & DINE RIGHT NOW

Chef Katianna Hong and David Kasper, The Charter , St. Helena, CA 100AMERICA’S BEST WINE RESTAURANTS 2018

Every year, the editors of Wine Enthusiast drink and dine their way around the country, seeking out the best and brightest wine-integrated eateries of the moment. Our selection isn’t a ranking of wine lists, or even a comprehensive survey of every good wine restaurant in the U.S. Instead, it is a subjective culling of restaurants where wine is clearly loved in a way that jives with our own mission, and where, in our experiences, the wine, food, service and atmosphere are all exceptionally united. Cheers! Chef/Owner Amanda Wine Enthusiast · By the editors of Section Editor Nils Bernstein Cohen and Wine Director Lauren Friel of Dirt Candy in New York City

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Prime + Proper Trattoria Stella Adega The Whelk / Bar Crenn The Love Californios The Boiler Room Restaurant Agern Vetri Cucina Ninety Acres The Charter Oak Cote Aureole Las Vegas at Natirar Picasso Wildflower Café Dirt Candy Bellemore Compline Wine Bar Restaurant Guy Savoy Fish & Game Oriole and Restaurant Glitretind Beholder Restaurant Purple Pig Flora Bar The Firehouse Tagliata Pago Barolo Grill The Four Horsemen Reeds American Table Foreign Cinema Tavernetta Sardella Gabriel Kreuther The Lark Anxo Shagbark The Grill / The Pool Maude Iron Gate 610 Magnolia Métier Indian Accent The Morris Supra Le Coucou N/Naka The Modern Otway Pico Ousia Cúrate The Plumed Horse Peck’s Arcade The Progress Geordie’s Scampi Redbird One Eleven Doc Martin’s Rustic Canyon The Sardine Factory FIG Studio Fleurie Torc McCrady’s Bullion Valette Marcel Cabernet Grill Galley and Garden Flora Street Café The French Room One Fi!h Alter Pappas Bros The Forge Xochi Jiko–The Cooking Place Compère Lapin

Stripsteak Waikiki rom sea to shining sea, we’ve mapped out the 100 best restaurants for eating Fwell and drinking better; think of it as your to-do list for the next year. More than just a list, you’ll find interviews with star and chefs, delicious recipes and our first ever Restaurant Hall of Fame.

Check it all out (and more) at winemag.com/100best2018 AMERICA’S I 100 BEST WINE RESTAURANTS I 2018 The Wine Enthusiast Restaurant Hall of Fame A!er years of releasing our annual 100 Best Wine Restaurants Los Gatos, CA list, we decided it was finally time to debut a Hall of Fame to manresarestaurant.com designate the classic establishments that never disappoint Miller Union and always keep our glasses full. These restaurants have Atlanta Scampi appeared on our list four or more times and continue to millerunion.com New York City operate at the top of their game. Congratulations to these scampinyc.com icons who have changed how and what we drink and eat. The Pass & Provisions Rustic Canyon This restaurant features a two-part Houston Los Angeles wine program: a snapshot of 100 passandprovisions.com rusticcanyonrestaurant.com bottles under $100, and a 1,000-bottle A16 Deseo A!er releasing his award-winning book, Reserve list, thanks to Wine Director San Francisco Scottsdale, AZ On Vegetables, just last year, Executive Kimberly Prokoshyn inheriting the a16pizza.com kierlandresort.com/#/dining/deseo/ New York City Chef Jeremy Fox’s innovative cuisine cellar from her previous restaurant, the thomaskeller.com/perseny has reached a wider audience than now-shuttered Rebelle. Rather than Stripsteak Waikiki Auberge du Soleil Element 47 at Restaurant Guy Savoy ever before. In the restaurant, Wine intimidating, the lively atmosphere and Waikiki, HI Supra Rutherford, CA The Little Nell Portland City Grill Las Vegas Director Kathryn Coker continues to unpretentious Southern Italian cuisine stripsteakwaikiki.com Washington, D.C. aubergedusoleil.aubergeresorts.com Aspen, CO Portland, OR caesars.com/caesars-palace/ champion smaller producers from makes it fun to explore. Bold, precise and locally influenced, this supradc.com thelittlenell.com/dining/element-47 portlandcitygrill.com restaurants/guy-savoy around the globe, while sommelier and is an island variation on the steakhouse The city’s premier Georgian restaurant The Barn at Bucking the “casual fine dining” trend, Naples native Ferdinando Mucerino has theme. You’ll find classic reds to pair is also likely the country’s first with Blackberry Farm Press St. Helena this is one of the country’s most increased attention around wines from with the expert-cooked cuts, but an all- list. With over Townsend, TN New York City St. Helena, CA elevated dining experiences. The new southern Italy. boutique bottles, grower 50 labels, there’s something for every blackberryfarm.com/wine-food/dinner/barn elevenmadisonpark.com pressnapavalley.com wine director, Andrew Hurley, has been and simpler Hawaiian-sourced plates taste, and staff are eager to discuss focusing on more eclectic pairings, shake up steakhouse stereotypes. the country’s traditions. Bern’s Steak House Fiola di Fabio Trabocchi Proof on Main as well as older offerings, Those in the know about the splendor Tampa, FL Washington Louisville, KY to accentuate the menu’s sense of of Georgian cuisine will appreciate the bernssteakhouse.com fioladc.com proofonmain.com complex enlightenment. authentic and wide-ranging menu. Shagbark Blackbird Five & Ten Richmond, VA Chicago Athens, GA San Francisco shagbarkrva.com blackbirdrestaurant.com fiveandten.com quincerestaurant.com Chef-Owner Walter Bundy’s stellar Sardella food celebrates Virginia purveyors, just Blue Hill at Stone Barns Frasca Food and Wine The Restaurant at St. Louis as Wine Director Rodney Rosser’s list Pocantico Hills, NY Boulder, CO Meadowood sardellastl.com (which has doubled in the past year) bluehillfarm.com/dine/stone-barns frascafoodandwine.com St. Helena, CA This modest Italian-driven spot highlights Virginia wines alongside therestaurantatmeadowood.com inherited the cellar from its previous classic and upcoming regions. Engaged Canlis incarnation, Niche, so the wine list is staff and a large number of value- Seattle Yountville, CA Restaurant Latour brief but always changing—and always driven bottles round out the package. canlis.com thomaskeller.com/tfl Hamburg, NJ with “limited availability” gems. Daily crystalgolfresort.com/dine/latour/ wine promotions and frequent wine The Catbird Seat FT33 dinners add to the fun. Nashville Dallas Sage RN74 thecatbirdseatrestaurant.com !33dallas.com Las Vegas Seattle aria.com/en/restaurants/sage.html michaelmina.net/restaurants/seattle Studio Commander’s Palace Gramercy Tavern

The upshot of San Francisco’s RN74 Laguna Beach, CA N SUNG; RODNEY ROSSER; BONJWING LEE ; ANDREW PROPP New Orleans New York City Sepia closing last year was that the Seattle montagehotels.com/lagunabeach/ commanderspalace.com gramercytavern.com Chicago location cherry-picked from that cellar, dining/studio Taberna de Haro sepiachicago.com doubling the breadth and depth of Thanks to an unparalleled oceanfront Brookline, MA Crabtree’s Kittle House The Herbfarm its own. Verticals of Domaine de la view coupled with a 2,500 bottle- tabernaboston.com Chappaqua, NY Seattle, WA Spiaggia Romanée-Conti and Domaine Dujac strong wine list curated by Beverage Authentic Spanish cuisine meets one kittlehouse.com theherbfarm.com Chicago now join an ever-expanding selection of Manager and Sommelier Troy Smith, of the country’s largest spiaggiarestaurant.com Washington and Oregon wines. The Sardine Factory Spoon and Stable Studio remains a year-round wine- lists at this perennial favorite. Owner- Craigie on Main L’Etoile Restaurant Monterey, CA Minneapolis lover’s dining destination. Chef-Wine Director Deborah Hansen’s Cambridge, MA Madison, WI Troquet on South sardinefactory.com spoonandstable.com wine descriptions are always a breath craigieonmain.com letoile-restaurant.com Boston Celebrating its 50th anniversary this Chef-Owner Gavin Kaysen’s Midwestern of fresh air: “Teeming with the verve troquetboston.com year, The Sardine Factory was the marriage of French technique and local of untamed red fruits and mountain Daniel starting point for the Cannery Row ingredients continues to reign supreme. herbs, the wine is both taut and curvy, New York City New York City Woodberry Kitchen area’s revitalization. It continues to The wine program focuses on bottles like a belly dancer.” danielnyc.com le-bernardin.com Baltimore serve perfectly prepared seafood and from across the Northern Hemisphere, woodberrykitchen.com a wine list that is one of the country’s striving to highlight refined and com- most extensive. pelling wines at an excellent value. GALDONES PHOTOGRAPHY; RICK POONS; GREG RANNELLS; EVA

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