Explore our curated restaurants, hotels, bars, and wineries in Newport Beach.
Accolades in Newport Beach
Citywide, 12 wine programs are exceptional. All eight restaurants on the wine restaurants list have exceptional programs, and Bourbon Steak Orange County, in Dana Point, holds the Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence.
Bourbon Steak Orange County, in Dana Point, is Michael Mina's modern American steakhouse, with steaks, seafood and ocean views. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive wine list and craft cocktails. Service is a la carte and a tasting menu. It holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2026, plus Forbes 4-Star and Forbes Recommended ratings.
Marché Moderne, in Newport Beach, is a chef-owned French bistro. An open kitchen sits behind glass. The kitchen cooks classical French food in a modern style. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive sommelier-led list, and corkage is allowed. The menu is a la carte and prix fixe. It holds a Michelin Plate for 2024, 2025 and 2026.
Fable & Spirit, in Lido Marina Village, serves Irish-inspired contemporary American cooking in a room with a mythology theme. Chef David Shofner cooks here. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive wine list, and the restaurant pours craft cocktails. The menu is small plates and a la carte. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for 2024, 2025 and 2026.
The Dock, in Lido Marina, is a waterfront contemporary American steakhouse, and a bay view comes with each seat. The wine program is exceptional. A WineStation system carries the list, which is extensive, and the restaurant pours craft cocktails. The menu is a la carte.
Bello by Sandro Nardone, in Back Bay, serves a tasting menu and holds a Michelin Plate. Sushi ii, in Newport Beach, and Nobu, in Lido Marina Village, serve omakase.
Bello by Sandro Nardone, in Back Bay, is chef Sandro Nardone's Italian restaurant. The kitchen makes its pastas and fires pizzas in a wood oven, in view of the dining room. The wine program is curated, with an extensive wine list. The menu is a la carte and a tasting menu. It holds a Michelin Plate for 2024, 2025 and 2026.
Sushi ii, in Newport Beach, serves omakase and kaiseki-style sushi with Japanese-imported fish, sushi rice and seasonal ingredients. Chefs Koji Takahashi and Norio Izawa run the counter. The wine program is curated, and the restaurant pours sake. Service is omakase and a la carte. It holds a Michelin Plate for 2024, 2025 and 2026.
Nobu, in Lido Marina Village, is Nobu Matsuhisa's Japanese-Peruvian restaurant, with waterfront views of Newport Harbor. The menu is a la carte, omakase and small plates. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive wine list, and the restaurant pours sake and craft cocktails.
The Resort at Pelican Hill, in Newport Coast, holds a Star Wine List for 2026. Pendry Newport Beach, in Newport Beach, holds a Michelin 1 Key, and Balboa Bay Resort, in Newport Beach, is the city's only waterfront resort.
The Resort at Pelican Hill, in Newport Coast, holds a Star Wine List for 2026. Italian-inspired bungalows and villas sit on the coastal property, with championship golf courses and a Coliseum Pool that looks over the Pacific. The spa holds a Forbes 5-Star rating and an AAA 5 Diamond rating.
Pendry Newport Beach, in Newport Beach, pairs art deco interiors with a garden design by Studio Munge, and Montage International operates the hotel. The hotel has four dining destinations and holds a Michelin 1 Key for 2025. Forbes lists it as Recommended, and it is a Virtuoso Luxury Hotel Partner with a Mr & Mrs Smith Seal of Approval.
Balboa Bay Resort, in Newport Beach, is the only resort in the city on the water. Rooms look onto the bay, guests can use a private beach, and the hotel has a spa. It holds a Forbes 4-Star rating for 2026 and is in the Preferred Hotels L.V.X. Collection. The building is Mediterranean in style and has 160 rooms.
Lido House, Autograph Collection, in Balboa Peninsula, is a boutique hotel on the former City Hall site, with Cape Cod architecture. The Mayor's Table and Topside, the only rooftop bar in the city, are at Lido House, Autograph Collection, in Balboa Peninsula. It is a Virtuoso Luxury Hotel Partner for 2026. The hotel has guest rooms, suites and cottages.
Lido Marina Village and Newport Beach each have two restaurants on the wine restaurants list, more than any other neighborhood on it. Fable & Spirit and Nobu are in Lido Marina Village. Marché Moderne and The Cannery are in Newport Beach.
Newport Beach has 0 Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide, citywide. Fable & Spirit, in Lido Marina Village, holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for 2026. A Michelin Plate for 2026 is held by Marché Moderne in Newport Beach, Bello by Sandro Nardone in Back Bay, and Sushi ii in Newport Beach.
Bello by Sandro Nardone, in Back Bay, and Bourbon Steak Orange County, in Dana Point, serve a tasting menu with a la carte. Marché Moderne, in Newport Beach, serves a prix fixe with a la carte. Sushi ii, in Newport Beach, serves omakase and a la carte, and Nobu, in Lido Marina Village, serves omakase, a la carte and small plates.
Bourbon Steak Orange County, in Dana Point, holds the only Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2026 in our guide. Citywide, our guide counts one Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence and two Wine Spectator Awards of Excellence for Newport Beach.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Best of Newport Beach
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Fable & Spirit on Via Lido brings Californian cooking to Newport Beach at a price point that earns its keep twice over, holding back-to-back Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition in 2024 and 2025. Chef David Shofner works within a culinary tradition that treats the state's produce-led abundance as a starting point rather than a destination. For the Orange County dining scene, that discipline at a mid-range price is notable.
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Michael Mina's Bourbon Steak Orange County defines oceanfront luxury dining in Newport Beach, where butter-poached prime cuts and theatrical tableside presentations unfold against spectacular Pacific views at the exclusive Monarch Beach Resort.
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Bello by Sandro Nardone brings Michelin Plate-recognised Italian cooking to Newport Beach's Fashion Island corridor, earning consecutive Plate nods in 2024 and 2025. Chef Sandro Nardone's menu positions the restaurant in the smaller tier of serious Italian dining on the Orange County coast, where regional specificity and kitchen discipline set it apart from the broader neighbourhood restaurant field.
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Marché Moderne holds consecutive Michelin Plate recognition for 2024 and 2025, placing it among the more formally credentialed French tables in Orange County. Positioned on Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach, it draws comparison to California's mid-tier French dining scene rather than the casual bistro category. A 4..
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Sushi ii holds consecutive Michelin Plate recognition (2024 and 2025) at its West Coast Highway address in Newport Beach, where chefs Koji Takahashi and Norio Izawa run a Japanese counter program priced at the upper end of the local market. The format rewards patience: courses arrive with deliberate pacing, and the kitchen's discipline places it in a different tier from the casual omakase options scattered across coastal Orange County.
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21 Oceanfront occupies one of Newport Beach's most direct oceanside addresses, at 2100 W Oceanfront, placing it squarely within Southern California's tradition of premium seafood dining against the Pacific backdrop. The setting alone positions it as a reference point for coastal fine dining in Orange County, where the view and the plate are expected to carry equal weight.
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Positioned inside Fashion Island at 701 Newport Center Drive, 59th & Lex occupies a corner of Newport Beach's most concentrated dining district. The room draws a crowd that moves between the retail corridors and the restaurant floor with ease, making it a reliable anchor for both a quick lunch and a more deliberate evening sitting. The shift between those two services tells you most of what you need to know about how the place operates.
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A+O Restaurant | Bar sits on West Coast Highway in Newport Beach, a city where marina proximity shapes the dining brief as much as the menu.
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Acai Republic on Avocado Ave sits inside Newport Beach's growing appetite for ingredient-forward, health-conscious eating. The format leans on the Brazilian acai tradition, translated for a Southern California crowd that takes its produce sourcing seriously. For visitors working through the city's dining options, it represents the casual, counter-service end of a scene that runs all the way up to fine dining.
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Amalfi Fashion Island brings Italian cooking into Newport Beach’s polished retail-and-coast dining orbit, where the appeal is less about ceremony than clean, familiar flavors in a social setting. The useful lens here is simplicity: Italian food in this context works when the kitchen lets pasta, seafood, tomatoes, herbs, olive oil, and restraint do the talking.
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Basilic occupies a quiet address on Marine Avenue in Newport Beach's Balboa Island, where French-inflected cooking meets a coastal California setting that favors restraint over spectacle. The dining room keeps its focus on the plate, positioning the restaurant within a small cohort of Orange County kitchens that draw from classical European tradition rather than trend-driven menus. Reservations are recommended for weekend sittings.
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Positioned on Bayside Drive along Newport Harbor, Bayside sits in a tier of Newport Beach restaurants where the waterfront setting does meaningful work before a plate arrives.
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Tupelo Junction Cafe occupies a residential pocket of Newport Beach's 29th Street corridor, where the Southern-inflected casual dining tradition that shaped much of inland Orange County meets the coast's appetite for neighbourhood regulars. The cafe format here favours a slower, more deliberate pace than the harbour-facing dining rooms nearby, making it a useful counterpoint to Newport Beach's more formal restaurant tier.
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A waterfront fixture on Newport Beach's West Coast Highway, Billy's At The Beach delivers casual coastal dining with direct harbour views. The setting does much of the work: sunlight off the water, boats moving through the channel, and a rhythm that slows the meal down. It occupies a middle tier in Newport's dining scene, pitched between quick bites and the more formal waterfront rooms nearby.
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Blend sits on West Coast Highway in Newport Beach, a corridor where casual coastal eating, marina-adjacent drinking, and shopping-district dining often compete for the same evening. With no public award or chef-driven tasting-menu signal, it reads less as a destination restaurant than as a local stop whose value depends on atmosphere, sourcing discipline, and how clearly the kitchen connects to Southern California produce culture.
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Positioned on Lido Park Drive along Newport Harbor, Bluewater Grill occupies a stretch of Southern California waterfront where casual-to-midscale seafood dining has long anchored the local restaurant scene. The address places it within reach of both harbor visitors and Newport Beach residents who treat the water's edge as a baseline for weeknight dining rather than a special-occasion destination.
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bouillon MOULIN occupies a strip-mall address on Bristol Street North that understates what happens inside: a French-inflected menu concept built around the bouillon tradition, where precise, structured cooking meets accessible format. In a Newport Beach dining scene that tends toward California-casual or white-tablecloth formality, the MOULIN model occupies a distinct middle register worth understanding before you book.
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Caffè 2 reads as a Newport Coast resort café shaped by Southern California’s lighter daytime dining habits: quick, polished, and ingredient-led rather than ceremony-heavy. With no public awards, chef credit, price range, or signature dish attached, the useful read is category-based: expect a casual resort-adjacent format where freshness, convenience, and the coast’s produce culture matter more than destination-restaurant theatre.
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On West Coast Highway where Newport Beach's coastal strip thins to a single lane of traffic and open water, Cappy's Cafe occupies a stretch of shoreline that draws regulars as reliably as the tide. The cafe format places it in the casual-to-mid tier of Newport's dining scene, distinct from the white-tablecloth harbour rooms nearby, and serves as a reference point for the neighbourhood's more relaxed, salt-aired eating culture.
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On the West Oceanfront boardwalk in Newport Beach, Dory Deli occupies a stretch of coastline where casual and serious converge. The address at 2108 W Oceanfront puts it steps from the Pacific, in a corridor that has long drawn both locals and visitors looking for something less formal than the city's white-tablecloth tier. It sits in a Newport Beach dining scene that runs from beachside counter service to destination fine dining.
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El Mercado Mexican Kitchen occupies a suite on Marine Avenue in Newport Beach, bringing Mexican cooking into a coastal California dining scene dominated by seafood houses and European bistros. The address on Balboa Island places it among a compact strip of neighborhood restaurants, where the kitchen's approach to Mexican cuisine competes on specificity rather than scale. A useful reference point for visitors working through the area's mid-range dining options.
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Hook & Anchor sits on Newport Blvd in Costa Mesa, occupying a tier of the Newport Beach dining scene where the relationship between kitchen and sourcing tends to define the experience more than the room itself. Against peers like Marché Moderne and Fable & Spirit, it reads as a venue where the supply chain carries as much weight as the plate. For travelers calibrating their Newport Beach itinerary, it warrants consideration alongside the harbor-front options.
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Il Barone Ristorante sits on West Coast Highway in Newport Beach, positioning itself within the coastal Italian dining tier that runs parallel to the harbor's seafood-forward scene. The address alone — 6700 West Coast Hwy — places it in direct conversation with the area's water-adjacent dining corridor, where the view competes as much as the kitchen does. For those planning around the Newport Beach dining circuit, it warrants advance research before committing to a booking.
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Located at 111 21st Place in Newport Beach, il Farro Restaurant sits in a stretch of the city where casual beach proximity and genuine Italian ambition coexist. The address places it within a neighborhood defined by salt air and foot traffic from the boardwalk, making it a reference point for Italian dining along the Orange County coast. Details on current hours and booking are best confirmed directly with the restaurant.
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Pendry Newport Beach opened in September 2023 within Fashion Island, earning a Michelin Key in 2024. The 295-room property, operated by Montage International, pairs art deco-inflected interiors with a garden-inspired design by Studio Munge. Ocean-facing rooms and suites, four food and beverage outlets, and an exclusive members' club position it at the upper end of the Newport Beach hotel tier.
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Among Southern California's coastal resorts, The Resort at Pelican Hill sits in a tier defined by scale, setting, and architectural ambition. Spread across 504 acres of Newport Coast hillside with Pacific views from nearly every room, it holds Forbes Five-Star and AAA Five-Diamond ratings for its spa, a La Liste score of 94.5 points (2026), and a Star Wine List award. The address, 15 minutes from John Wayne Airport, puts it closer to the coast than most Orange County competitors.
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Balboa Bay Resort sits on a narrow strip of Newport Beach waterfront, bracketed by the bay on one side and Pacific Coast Highway on the other. The 160-room Mediterranean-style property has spent decades hosting celebrities and heads of state, and a recent wave of interior renovations has shifted its aesthetic from nautical heritage toward coastal contemporary. Access to the resort's spa and club facilities sets it apart from standard hotel stays in the area.
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Built on the site of Newport Beach's former City Hall, Lido House is an Autograph Collection hotel near Lido Marina Village and the Balboa Peninsula. The property pairs Cape Cod architecture with California coastal interiors across guest rooms, suites, and cottages. The Mayor's Table restaurant and Topside, Newport Beach's only rooftop bar, anchor a food and drink programme that puts the Pacific front and centre.
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