east your eyes on this: Wine Enthusiast Magazine’s editors and tasters have mapped out America’s 100 Best Wine Restaurants of 2011. Our editors scanned the states in search of the hottest spots to savor wine and delicious bites. But that’s not all. We’ve sourced recipes for wine lovers and scored interviews with SEATTLE top chefs and sommeliers to stuff this issue with tips, tricks and insider information on America’s best din- ing destinations. Canlis WOODINVILLE The Herbfarm

Chef’s Table, Iowa City CHICAGO Barcelona, Greenwich, CT Avenues Blackbird PORTLAND Charlie Trotter’s BOSTON BEAST Frontera Grill Craigie on Main Portland City Grill Longman & Eagle Menton Rainbow Ranch Lodge, Big Sky L20 Troquet Spiaggia BEVERLY HILLS Culina Cut by Wolfgang Puck LAS VEGAS Blue Hill at Stone Barns, Pocantico Hills, NY NEW YORK CITY Spago Beverly Hills Andre’s Crabtree’s Kittle House, Chappaqua, NY ABC Kitchen CARMEL VALLEY Aureole Adour Marinus B&B Ristorante A Voce HEALDSBURG L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon PHILADELPHIA Casa Mono and Joël Robuchon Cyrus Sage Alma de Cuba Daniel LOS ANGELES DENVER Le Bec Fin Del Posto Hatfield’s Frasca Food and Wine BALTIMORE Eleven Madison Park The Bazaar by José Andrés ASPEN Charleston GILT WP24 Montagna at the Little Nell Gramercy Tavern NAPA Jean Georges Annie Gunn’s, Chesterfield La Toque Le Bernardin OAKLAND Proof on Main, Louisville WASHINGTON D.C. Marea Commis Art and Soul Minetta Tavern RUTHERFORD Birch & Barley Per Se Auberge de Soleil CityZen Picholine SAN DIEGO Sho Shaun Hergatt Addison at The Grand Del Mar ATLANTA The Lambs Club The Anasazi Restaurant, SAN FRANCISCO Bacchanalia Veritas Santa Fe Gary Danko Miller Union Deseo, Scottsdale Millennium Restaurant Quince CHARLESTON RN74 Circa 1886 The Slanted Door Charleston Grill Wayfare Tavern SANTA MONICA LAKE BUENA VISTA Sonoma Wine Garden AUSTIN Jiko-The Cooking Place Valentino’s Lake Austin Spa Resort MIAMI ST. HELENA DALLAS Baires Grill The Restaurant at Meadowood Al Biernat’s Hakkasan YOUNTVILLE Crush Wine Bistro and Cellar, Anchorage The Mansion Restaurant Prime One Twelve étoile Restaurant Stephan Pyles PALM BEACH The French Laundry HOUSTON NEW ORLEANS Angle Redd Pappas Bros. Steakhouse August TAMPA Samba Grill Commander’s Palace Bern’s Steak House Emeril’s Gautreau’s