Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Santiago
This list has five Santiago restaurants with exceptional wine programs. Three are in Vitacura. La Calma by Fredes in Vitacura cooks daily-catch seafood with minimal preparation and fair-trade Pacific sourcing, and its sommelier-led list is one of Chile's finest wine lists. La Mesa in Vitacura, led by chef Álvaro Romero, is farm-to-table cooking in a room built around an oak tree, with a sommelier, an extensive wine list, and craft cocktails. Europeo in Vitacura, under chef Francisco Mandiola, joins European technique to seasonal Chilean ingredients, with a tasting menu, a la carte service, and an extensive wine list.
Bocanáriz in Lastarria is a modern Chilean wine bar with over 250 Chilean wines, wine flights, and cellar sales. Opinionated About Dining ranked it No. 88 in 2026. Baco in Providencia is a French bistro with hearty classics a la carte and an extensive Chilean selection by the glass.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants with a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award or a deep wine list, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Baco
Deep wine list
Baco occupies a measured corner of Providencia's Nueva de Lyon, where the dining format follows a multi-course progression that positions it within Santiago's mid-to-upper restaurant tier. The address places it within walking distance of the neighbourhood's wine bar circuit, including the well-known Bocanáriz. For visitors tracing Santiago's serious dining scene, Baco offers a focused entry point into Providencia's quieter restaurant corridor.
Bocanáriz
Deep wine list
Bocanáriz is a wine bar on Lastarria's most active stretch, recognised by Opinionated About Dining's 2025 South America list and holding. The format pairs Chilean-focused wine selections with small plates designed for sharing, making it a practical reference point for the country's wine regions without leaving Santiago's most walkable neighbourhood.
Europeo
Deep wine list
Europeo occupies a considered address on Alonso de Córdova in Vitacura, Santiago's premium dining corridor, where the room's European register and composed service have made it a reference point for milestone meals in the city. The kitchen works within a tradition that places formal technique alongside Chilean produce, positioning Europeo in the upper bracket of Santiago's occasion dining tier.
La Calma by Fredes
Deep wine list
Among Santiago's most recognised seafood addresses, La Calma by Fredes in Vitacura operates on a strict daily-catch model: no frozen product, fair-trade sourcing, and a menu shaped by Chile's extended Pacific coastline. Ranked No. 67 on the Latin America's 50 Best extended list in 2023 and featured in Opinionated About Dining's 2025 South America rankings, it sits at the serious end of the city's fish-focused dining tier.
La Mesa
Deep wine list
La Mesa in Vitacura operates in a neighbourhood where Santiago's most consistent restaurant clientele have long self-sorted. Under chef Álvaro Romero, the kitchen earns its repeat custom the hard way: through cooking that holds up visit after visit. Set on Alonso de Córdova, it sits inside one of the city's most densely competitive dining corridors, and its regulars have made their choice deliberately.
VIK
Deep wine list
Set within its own working vineyard in Las Condes, VIK's Milla Milla restaurant brings the estate-to-table concept into sharp focus: a seasonal menu built around produce from the property's garden, paired with wines grown on the same land. The setting draws comparisons to cinematic drama, and the approach to sourcing places it among Chile's most self-contained dining experiences.
Planning restaurants for wine lovers in Santiago
- Which neighborhood has the most wine restaurants on this list?
- Vitacura has three of the five wine restaurants on this list: La Calma by Fredes, La Mesa, and Europeo. La Calma by Fredes is sommelier-led seafood with an extensive wine list. La Mesa is a sommelier-led farm-to-table restaurant with an extensive wine list and craft cocktails. Europeo serves a tasting menu and a la carte menu with an extensive wine list under chef Francisco Mandiola.
- Which restaurants on this list are sommelier-led?
- La Calma by Fredes and La Mesa, both in Vitacura, are the sommelier-led restaurants on this list. La Calma by Fredes pairs that service with an exceptional wine program and an extensive list beside daily-catch seafood. La Mesa pairs it with an exceptional wine program, an extensive list, and craft cocktails beside farm-to-table cooking from chef Álvaro Romero.
- Which restaurant on this list gives a count of Chilean wines?
- Bocanáriz in Lastarria pours over 250 Chilean wines, with wine flights and cellar sales. The wine program is exceptional and the list is extensive. Small plates, a la carte service, and a prix fixe accompany that Chilean list at this Lastarria wine bar.
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