Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Vilnius
Nine restaurants on this list carry exceptional wine programs, and sommeliers lead most of them. Nineteen18 in Old Town is the restaurant here with a Michelin star, dated 2026, and its tasting menu uses ingredients from the restaurant's own farm. Oecumene Wine Bar in Vilnius Old Town holds the only Wine Spectator Award of Excellence in our guide, with a curated list of over 150 bottles.
SOMM The Wine Bar in Old Town pours over 500 global bottles with modern European dishes. Pacai in Vilnius Old Town serves modern Lithuanian fine dining in a 17th-century palace. HeJi in Lukiškiai adds sake and a champagne bar to East-West fusion. Saint-Malo in Vilnius City Center serves French regional cooking, Buff On in Vilnius Old Town is a meat and wine steakhouse, and Elēno serves a French, Nordic and Japanese tasting menu.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants holding a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award or rated as having an exceptional wine program, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Buff On
Exceptional wine program
Buff On anchors Vilnius's Old Town meat scene with a US-sourced steak program that extends to lamb, duck, and veal. The adjacent bar offers a natural prelude, and the dining room—black walls, leather chairs, round booths for groups—combines comfort with restraint. Side dishes receive equal attention, from beetroot cream-dressed potatoes to grilled padrón peppers.
Dine
Exceptional wine program
One of the pioneers of modern cuisine in Vilnius, Dine has held consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025 while building a loyal following across locals and international visitors. Positioned in the €€€ tier on Gedimino prospektas, the city's main boulevard, it sits at the intersection of accessible fine dining and serious culinary intent — a combination that remains relatively rare in Lithuania's capital.
Elēno
Exceptional wine program
Chef-owner Martyn Meid opened Elēno in late 2025, marrying classical French technique with Japanese precision in a monochrome dining room framed by vivid jars of house pickles. The chicken liver pâté on Hokkaido milk bread — an updated family recipe — signals the kitchen's willingness to root innovation in tradition and cross-cultural sourcing.
HeJi
Exceptional wine program
HeJi holds a Michelin Plate (2025) and four consecutive Star Wine List nominations, positioning it at the upper end of Vilnius fine dining. A Far East-inspired project at Lukiškių g. 3, it combines a champagne and seafood bar, cocktail bar, full-service restaurant, and rooftop terrace under one glass-roofed address, with dim sum and charcoal-grilled beef among its signature offerings. Price range sits at €€€.
Kristoforas
Exceptional wine program
A Michelin Bib Gourmand-recognised French restaurant on Vilnius's historic Didžioji Street, Kristoforas sits at the accessible end of the capital's fine-dining tier, where classical technique meets the city's growing appetite for European formality done without pretension.
Nineteen18
1 Michelin star · Exceptional wine program
Nineteen18 holds a Michelin star and a La Liste ranking inside a courtyard complex in Vilnius's historic centre, where a sealed ten-course menu anchors an industrial-style dining room that runs with a deliberately relaxed tempo. Chef Andrius Kubilius draws produce from the restaurant's own farm, and the kitchen counter is the seat of choice for anyone who wants to follow the cooking in real time.
Oecumene Wine Bar
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Oecumene sits on Aušros Vartų gatvė in Vilnius's Old Town, earning Star Wine List recognition in 2026 — a credential that places it among the city's most seriously curated wine-focused venues. In a Lithuanian capital increasingly defined by ambitious bar and wine programming, Oecumene represents the specialist end of the spectrum, where list depth and hospitality craft matter more than volume.
Pacai
Exceptional wine program
Pacai occupies a 17th-century baroque mansion on Didžioji Street, one of Vilnius's most historically loaded addresses, and earns its place among the city's serious modern cuisine options with consecutive Michelin Plate recognition and a wine program that has placed in the Star Wine List rankings every year since 2023. At the €€€ price tier, it sits above the casual end of the Vilnius dining scene and competes on credentials rather than novelty.
Saint-Malo
Exceptional wine program
Saint-Malo sits on Vilniaus gatvė in central Vilnius, recognized by Star Wine List with a White Star designation for its wine program. The restaurant occupies a position in the city's growing cohort of serious wine-led dining rooms, where the list does as much editorial work as the kitchen. Published by Star Wine List in August 2025, it arrives at a moment when Lithuanian dining is drawing sustained international attention.
SOMM The Wine Bar
Exceptional wine program
A sommelier-led wine and dining concept on Pylimo gatvė, Somm pairs French-Japanese fare with a cellar spanning more than 1,600 labels. Michelin Plate recognition and an Opinionated About Dining ranking signal where it sits among Vilnius's modern dining addresses. The format — breakfast through late night, with 75ml tasting pours and weekend Sommelier Lunches — is built for unhurried, wine-forward eating.
Planning restaurants for wine lovers in Vilnius
- Which wine restaurant on this list holds a Michelin star?
- Nineteen18 in Old Town is the only restaurant on this list with a Michelin star. The latest award is a Michelin star dated 2026, and Falstaff scored the restaurant 96 points. The kitchen is modern Lithuanian fine dining, served as a tasting menu, with an exceptional sommelier-led wine program. Ingredients come from the restaurant's own farm.
- Which place on this list holds a Wine Spectator award?
- Oecumene Wine Bar in Vilnius Old Town is the only place on this list with a Wine Spectator award, and the only venue with that award in our guide citywide. The award is a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence dated 2026. The curated list runs to over 150 bottles, from Champagne icons to rare gems, in a room with 15th-century walls.
- Which wine restaurants on this list are sommelier-led?
- Sommelier-led wine restaurants on this list are Nineteen18, SOMM The Wine Bar and Kristoforas in Old Town, Pacai in Vilnius Old Town, HeJi in Lukiškiai, Dine in Gediminas Avenue (Central Vilnius) and Saint-Malo in Vilnius City Center. Elēno is also sommelier-led. Each of those restaurants has an exceptional wine program.
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