The Wine Enthusiast Restaurant Hall of Fame welcomes 12 new restaurants to the listing this 12 months. These standouts have appeared on our America’s Hundred Best Wine Restaurants listing four or more instances, and they’re nonetheless running at the top of their game. Congratulations to these icons that have modified how we drink and devour.
610 Magnolia
Louisville, KY
Edward Lee’s modern cooking merges traditional Southern elements and global impacts. It turned into taken into consideration radical whilst he took over this excellent-eating group in 2004, but these days, Lee’s embody of the variety of Southern delicacies has proven prescient. An vast international wine listing is matched by using one of the area’s best selections of Kentucky Bourbon.
A16
San Francisco
Named for the highway that crosses Italy from Naples to Bari, A16 is ostensibly a pizza restaurant, but additionally functions seasonal pasta and regionally farmed meats restaurant in preparations faithful to Southern Italy. The wine director, Shelley Lindgren, has played a critical role in highlighting the indigenous grapes of Campania and Southern Italy.
Alter
Miami
Bradley Kilgore’s tasting menus offer original expressions of Florida components that pull from warm-climate cultures around the world. Inventive dishes like seared foie gras with Lambrusco bubbles, verjus curd, jalapeño, and gingersnap pair nicely with an adventurous wine list.
Auberge du Soleil
Rutherford, CA
One of Napa’s first excellent-eating vacation spot restaurants, Auberge du Soleil overlooks acres of olive groves and has served Mediterranean cuisine using the pleasant nearby components since 1983. The wine listing is a who’s who of benchmark Napa manufacturers, with many uncommon back vintages and verticals.
Ava Gene’s
Portland, OR
“Locally sourced, aggressively seasonal” is the chant at Ava Gene’s, where Joshua McFadden reimagines Roman cuisine from a vegetable-driven angle. The beverage director, Caryn Benke, has crafted a wine list that’s generally Italian, with a focal point on family producers that practice environmentally conscious farming and winemaking.
The Barn at Blackberry Farm
Townsend, TN
Guests come from around the sector to this four,2 two-hundred-acre motel inside the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains as much for the restaurant’s wine and food as the outstanding putting. Much of the food comes from the eating place’s farm, whilst the hundred and sixty 000-bottle cellar includes an uncommonly lengthy half-bottle list.
Bern’s Steak House
Tampa, FL
With more than 6,800 labels and almost 150 alternatives by the glass, no longer to mention immaculately cooked steaks and other American classics perfected over 63 years in business, Bern’s is one of the world’s fantastic wine restaurants. Schedule time before dinner to tour the cellar, and stop your meal within the Harry Waugh Dessert Room, named for the British wine gourmet.
Blackbird
Chicago
One of Chicago’s maximum influential restaurants, Blackbird, stays at the vanguard of this exquisite culinary metropolis’s eating scene 21 years after its debut. Wine consciousness in the conventional areas of France, with identical weight given to domestic expressions of these Old World grape varieties.
Blue Hill at Stone Barns
Pocantico Hills, NY
Farm-to-table eating doesn’t get more literal than at Blue Hill. Ingredients from the encompassing farm are converted into tricky tasting menus that change so regularly that there are no printed menus. The comprehensive wine listing is especially deep in France and California, with Madeiras dating back to 1901.
Canlis
Seattle
This Seattle pleasant-dining icon remains family-owned as it nears 70 years in business with a cellar that has gradually grown to be one of the world’s biggest. The authentic proprietor, Peter Canlis, commissioned the architects to build “the arena’s maximum beautiful restaurant,” creating a cantilevered midcentury-modern-day jewel that appears to glide over the panoramic scene beneath.
