The Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Los Angeles

Los Angeles restaurants with a deep wine list in the En Primeur Club guide or recognition from the World's Best Wine Lists awards make up this list of 45 venues, including Kato, Mélisse and Providence. Several are Downtown, and many have recognition from Wine Spectator. We choose venues by weighing recognition from independent critics, guides and awards.

Browse the entries in alphabetical order. Each shows the venue's town or city, a short description and awards from independent sources, with a link to its full guide page.

How this list is chosen: Every restaurant here pours from a deep wine list or is recognized by the World's Best Wine Lists awards. En Primeur Club chooses among them by weighing recognition from independent critics, guides and awards. Entries appear in alphabetical order.

71above
Los Angeles, United States
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Positioned on the 71st floor of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper, 71above serves New American cuisine under Chef Javier López with a wine program of more than 1,400 selections directed by Catherine Morel. Ranked among Opinionated About Dining's top North American restaurants in 2024, it operates lunch and dinner service through the week with a kitchen that draws from the intersecting culinary traditions that define contemporary American cooking.
Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, World's Best Wine Lists Awards
Alba
Los Angeles, United States
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Alba on Melrose Avenue sits inside the tier of Los Angeles restaurants where the meal is structured as a deliberate progression rather than a collection of individual dishes. The address places it in West Hollywood's densest corridor of serious dining, where Italian-inflected fine dining has long competed with the city's expanding roster of Michelin-recognised counters and tasting-format rooms.
American Beauty
Los Angeles, United States
American Beauty sits in Los Angeles’s steakhouse lane, where the meal is judged less by novelty than by cut selection, heat control, and the room’s confidence. Read it through the language of ribeye, strip, filet, and larger-format beef rather than through chef mythology or tasting-menu theatrics.
Anajak Thai Cuisine
Los Angeles, United States
A 44-year-old Sherman Oaks institution that became one of Los Angeles's most-discussed restaurants after James Beard Award-winning chef Justin Pichetrungsi reimagined its menu from 2019 onward. The à la carte menu runs from wok-fired classics and deep curries to dry-aged fish, with a wine program that draws serious attention. Ranked #11 on the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants list for 2024 and a consistent presence on Opinionated About Dining's North America rankings.
Also recognized by James Beard Award, LA Taco, LA Times, Opinionated About Dining
Arthur J.
Los Angeles, United States
Arthur J. occupies a particular position in the Manhattan Beach dining scene: a serious steakhouse operating with the discipline of a destination restaurant but rooted firmly in the beach city's relaxed register. Ranked in Opinionated About Dining's Casual North America list in both 2023 and 2024, it draws a crowd that arrives with appetite and intent. Chef David LeFevre's menu rewards close reading.
Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining
Baltaire
Los Angeles, United States
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Baltaire operates at the serious end of the West Side steakhouse tier, with a 4,695-bottle cellar weighted toward Burgundy, Bordeaux, and California, and a mid-century modern room that handles sun-soaked lunches and evening dinners with equal composure. Ranked #505 on Opinionated About Dining's 2025 Casual North America list, it draws a Brentwood crowd that expects both the cut and the glass to deliver.
Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, World's Best Steaks, World's Best Wine Lists Awards
Bar Etoile
Los Angeles, United States
A French bistro-inspired wine bar on Melrose Hill, Bar Etoile holds a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025 and pairs an expansive French-focused wine list with product-driven, seasonal Californian cooking. Dishes like a custardy cheese tart and trout rillettes keep the format simple and grounded. At the $$$ price point, it offers one of the neighbourhood's more considered wine-and-food pairings.
Also recognized by LA Times, Wine Enthusiast
Barrique Venice
Los Angeles, United States
Barrique Venice belongs to the Los Angeles dining conversation shaped by neighborhood specificity rather than a single downtown center. In Venice, the point is not only what is on the plate, but how a restaurant fits into a district where beach-adjacent informality, serious spending, and destination dining often share the same block.
Barsha
Los Angeles, United States
A family-run Hermosa Beach restaurant drawing on Tunisian roots and wide-ranging travel, Barsha landed at #66 on the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants list for 2024. The menu moves from harissa-spiked brik to slow-cooked lamb meatballs with oversized couscous, holding its own as both a neighbourhood staple and a citywide reference point for North African cooking in Los Angeles.
Also recognized by LA Times
Botanica Restaurant and Market
Los Angeles, United States
A Silver Lake fixture for breakfast, brunch, and easy evening meals, Botanica at 1620 Silver Lake Blvd sits inside the eastside's broader shift toward bright, ingredient-focused neighbourhood dining. The space is open and light-filled, the food simply presented but carefully considered. It draws repeat visitors across multiple dayparts, which in Los Angeles is a reliable indicator of a restaurant doing something right.
Also recognized by Star Wine List, We're Smart World
Bruce
Los Angeles, United States
Bruce sits inside the wider Los Angeles restaurant conversation, where concept, neighborhood rhythm, and menu structure matter as much as formal category labels. With no fixed cuisine or price signal attached, it is better read through the city’s flexible dining culture than through a narrow genre box.
Capo
Los Angeles, United States
Wine Spectator Grand Award
Capo on Ocean Avenue has been a Santa Monica institution for Italian-American dining since the 1990s, anchored by owner-chef Bruce Marder and a wine program of serious depth — 2,725 selections across 13,500 bottles of inventory, with particular strength in California, Burgundy, and Italy. Ranked #317 in North America by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, it remains a reliable reference point for the city's Italian dining conversation.
Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List
Carlitos Gardel
Los Angeles, United States
Among the few Argentinian restaurants in Los Angeles to earn Michelin recognition, Carlitos Gardel on Melrose Avenue holds a Michelin Plate (2024). The kitchen works within a tradition where South American technique meets the ingredient wealth of Southern California, placing it in a distinct tier among the city's globally-inflected dining options.
Celestino
Los Angeles, United States
A Pasadena institution anchored in Sicilian culinary tradition, Celestino has earned consecutive Opinionated About Dining recognition from 2023 through 2025. Chef Celestino Drago brings a regional Italian perspective to 141 S Lake Ave, where the kitchen runs a lunch and dinner schedule six days a week..
Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining
Chi Spacca
Los Angeles, United States
Chi Spacca on Melrose Ave operates at the intersection of Italian butchery tradition and Los Angeles carnivore culture, holding a Michelin Plate, Opinionated About Dining Casual North America ranking, and a spot on the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants 2024. The format centers on cured meats, wood-fired cuts, and a focaccia di Recco that earns its own reputation. At the summit tier of LA Italian, the value relative to price is one of its clearest arguments.
Also recognized by LA Times, Opinionated About Dining
Delilah
Los Angeles, United States
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
On Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, Delilah operates as a dinner-only American restaurant with a wine list that runs to 2,530 bottles and a cellar weighted toward California and France. Ranked #309 on Opinionated About Dining's 2025 North America list, it draws a crowd that comes as much for the depth of the wine program as for the kitchen's output under Chef Antonio Domingo.
Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, World's Best Wine Lists Awards
Giorgio Baldi
Los Angeles, United States
A fixture on the Santa Monica Italian circuit since the 1990s, Giorgio Baldi has earned consecutive placements on Opinionated About Dining's North America rankings — reaching #233 in 2025 — through direct coastal Italian cooking that has outlasted several waves of culinary fashion in Los Angeles. It operates Tuesday through Sunday, dinner only, on West Channel Road, drawing a crowd that treats the room as a standing reservation rather than an occasion.
Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining
Gwen
Los Angeles, United States
The tasting menu format and à la carte option place it in a price and format bracket alongside LA's most credentialed fine-dining rooms, with Opinionated About Dining ranking it among the leading 250 restaurants in North America in 2025.
Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, World's Best Steaks
Javier's DTLA
Los Angeles, United States
Javier's DTLA operates at the intersection of Downtown Los Angeles ambition and Mexican fine dining tradition, positioned on Figueroa Street in the city's South Park district. The format rewards unhurried evenings and deliberate ordering rather than quick turns. For those tracing the arc of serious Mexican dining in Los Angeles, it belongs in the conversation alongside the city's most considered restaurants.
Juliet
Los Angeles, United States
The $$$$ price positioning places it alongside Los Angeles's most considered French tables, earning. For the city's French dining tier, it occupies a focused, credentialed position worth understanding.
Kato
Los Angeles, United States
2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Kato reads Los Angeles through Taiwanese American fine dining rather than through imported tasting-menu orthodoxy. Jon Yao's cooking carries the speed, heat, and precision of Chinese technique into a composed dinner format, while Ryan Bailey's beverage program has become a major part of the restaurant's national standing.
Also recognized by Chinese Restaurant Awards, James Beard Award, LA Times, Opinionated About Dining
La Boucherie
Los Angeles, United States
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Positioned on the 71st floor of a Wilshire Boulevard tower, La Boucherie occupies a tier of Los Angeles dining where altitude and ambition operate together. The restaurant draws on the intersection of classical French butchery tradition and the ingredient-forward sensibility that defines Southern California's best produce culture. For the city's premium dining circuit, it represents a specific argument about what a steakhouse-adjacent format can accomplish at elevation.
Locanda Veneta
Los Angeles, United States
Locanda Veneta has been a fixture on West Third Street since Los Angeles Italian dining meant something more than red-sauce nostalgia. Ranked #479 in Opinionated About Dining's Casual North America list for 2025 and holding, it occupies the serious-casual tier of the city's Italian scene: the kind of room where wine and food are treated as inseparable rather than parallel afterthoughts.
Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining
Maddalena Restaurant
Los Angeles, United States
The kitchen draws from a tradition that rewards close attention, positioning it within the tier of Los Angeles restaurants where the menu itself tells the clearest story about what a chef values and how that value is communicated to the table.
Marea Beverly Hills
Los Angeles, United States
Marea Beverly Hills brings the Italian coastal cooking that made the New York original a benchmark for refined seafood to the west side of the country. The wine program pulls serious weight here, with a cellar depth that tracks the Italian coastal tradition far beyond the house pour. In a Beverly Hills dining corridor defined by steakhouses and sprawling Californian menus, Marea occupies a more specific position.
Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Wine Enthusiast
Mastro's Ocean Club
Los Angeles, United States
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
The South Park address places it squarely in the city's downtown dining corridor, drawing pre-event crowds from the adjacent Crypto.com Arena as reliably as it draws destination diners on quieter nights.
Mastro's Steakhouse Beverly Hills
Los Angeles, United States
Mastro's Steakhouse in Beverly Hills occupies a specific tier of the Los Angeles dining scene: the high-volume, high-ceremony American steakhouse that has sustained relevance across two decades of shifting tastes. Recognized by Opinionated About Dining in both 2023 and 2024, it operates on North Canon Drive as a consistent reference point for the format in Southern California.
Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining
Melanie Wine Bar
Los Angeles, United States
Melanie Wine Bar is worth booking for a relaxed Beverly Grove date night or wine-led dinner, especially if conversation matters more than a formal tasting-menu experience. The draw is the intimate room, European-leaning small and large plates, attentive service, and practical wine value, with reservations smart for dinner and walk-ins better suited to a lighter wine-and-snacks visit.
Mélisse
Los Angeles, United States
2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
A two Michelin-starred tasting counter inside Josiah Citrin's larger Citrin restaurant on Wilshire Boulevard, Mélisse operates at 14 seats with a menu that layers classic French technique over California seasonal produce. Recognized by La Liste (91pts, 2025), Les Grandes Tables du Monde, and the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants, it represents the city's most sustained argument for French fine dining on the Westside.
Also recognized by La Liste, LA Times, Les Grandes Tables du Monde, Opinionated About Dining
Musso & Frank Grill
Los Angeles, United States
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Hollywood's oldest restaurant, Musso & Frank Grill has operated at 6667 Hollywood Blvd since 1919, serving classic American fare from a menu that has changed little in a century. Ranked #752 in Opinionated About Dining's 2025 Casual North America list and recognized by Esquire for its martinis, it occupies a category of its own: a working institution rather than a nostalgia act.
Also recognized by Esquire, OpenTable, Opinionated About Dining, World's Best Wine Lists Awards
Napa Rose
Los Angeles, United States
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Napa Rose, inside Disney's Grand Californian Hotel in Anaheim, operates at a different register than most theme-park dining. A 14,000-bottle wine inventory, a six-course Chef's Counter, and a seasonally driven California menu position it against Orange County's serious dining tier. Note: the restaurant is closed through early 2026 for renovations.
Also recognized by Forbes
OTOTO
Los Angeles, United States
OTOTO is a neo-izakaya on Allison Avenue in Silver Lake, run by the team behind Tsubaki and recognized with the 2023 James Beard Award for Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program. The sake list is among the more considered in Los Angeles, anchoring a casual-to-mid-range menu of Japanese small plates pitched at the neighborhood bar register rather than the formal dining room. Walk-ins are possible, but the program draws a devoted following that rewards advance planning.
Also recognized by James Beard Award, Star Wine List
Peppone Restaurant
Los Angeles, United States
A Brentwood institution on Barrington Court, Peppone has served the west side of Los Angeles for decades as a setting for milestone meals and serious Italian dining. Its address places it among a residential pocket where regulars return for birthdays, anniversaries, and deal-closing dinners rather than for trend-chasing. The room carries the weight of a neighborhood that knows what it wants from a restaurant.
Petit Trois
Los Angeles, United States
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
At a marble counter in Hollywood, Petit Trois has spent a decade refining what a Parisian bistro can mean on the West Coast. Ranked #45 on the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants 2024 and recognised by both Michelin and Opinionated About Dining, it operates at the intersection of French classicism and Los Angeles informality, serving escargot, steak frites, and a burger drowning in Bordelaise to a room that never quite quiets down.
Also recognized by LA Times, Opinionated About Dining, World Best Burgers
Providence
Los Angeles, United States
3 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Providence is Los Angeles fine dining at its seafood end: formal, sustainability-minded, and built around Michael Cimarusti's long commitment to precise contemporary cooking. Its 2026 James Beard Award for Outstanding Hospitality and OAD North America ranking place it in the city's serious dining bracket rather than its casual seafood lane.
Also recognized by AAA, Forbes, James Beard Award, La Liste
Restaurant Ki
Los Angeles, United States
1 Michelin star
A ten-seat chef's counter in Little Tokyo, Restaurant Ki earned a Michelin star in 2025 within its first full year of operation. Chef Ki Kim, trained at Atomix and Jungsik in New York, delivers a seafood-centric tasting menu that draws on both Korean tradition and French technique.
Also recognized by Eater, Esquire, James Beard Award, LA Times
Rustic Canyon
Los Angeles, United States
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Rustic Canyon has anchored the Santa Monica dining scene since its early days as a farmers' market-driven neighborhood restaurant, earning Michelin Plate recognition in both 2024 and 2025 alongside consistent placement on the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants list. The daily-changing menu tracks California's harvest calendar through local seafood, vegetables, and meats sourced from the Santa Monica Farmers' Market. Dinner runs nightly from 5 pm on Wilshire Boulevard.
Also recognized by LA Times, Opinionated About Dining, Robb Report, Star Wine List
San Laurel
Los Angeles, United States
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
José Andrés elevates Spanish gastronomy to new heights at San Laurel Los Angeles, his Michelin-recognized tenth-floor restaurant in The Conrad Los Angeles. Here, innovative dishes like tomato "beefsteak" tartare and bone-in wagyu showcase California ingredients through Spanish techniques, all while overlooking Walt Disney Concert Hall's well-known curves.
Also recognized by Forbes
Seline
Los Angeles, United States
1 Michelin star
Seline brings a tasting menu format rooted in California seasonality and surrealist technique to Santa Monica's Main Street dining strip. Chef Dave Beran's kitchen deploys flash-frozen preparations and braised slow-cooked dishes within a cohesive progression that balances creative provocation with genuine comfort. A 2025 Michelin Plate recognition places it in the city's fine dining conversation at the summit price tier.
Also recognized by James Beard Award, LA Times, Opinionated About Dining
Somni
Los Angeles, United States
3 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Somni, a 14-seat tasting counter in West Hollywood, holds three Michelin stars under Chef Aitor Zabala, whose training at El Bulli informs a menu that bridges Basque and Catalan technique with Californian produce. Wine Director Caroline Costarella oversees a 1,050-bottle list with particular depth in Spain, California, and France. La Liste placed Somni at 96 points in its 2026 ranking.
Also recognized by La Liste, LA Times, Opinionated About Dining, Robb Report
Sushi Note
Los Angeles, United States
Sushi Note on Ventura Boulevard has held a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025, placing it among the Valley's most recognised Japanese counters at the $$$$ price point. The wine program sets it apart from the typical omakase format, with a list curated to move alongside raw fish rather than around it..
The Royce
Los Angeles, United States
The Royce at Pasadena's Langham Huntington occupies a distinct niche in the greater Los Angeles dining scene: a French-trained steakhouse-American kitchen operating under Chef David Féau with Opinionated About Dining recognition every year from 2023 through 2025. Dinner runs Tuesday through Saturday, giving the restaurant a focused, five-night cadence that sets the tempo for a deliberate, reservation-driven experience.
Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Virtuoso
Wally’s
Los Angeles, United States
Wine Spectator Grand Award
Wally's on W Adams Blvd operates across the full day — lunch through late night, seven days a week — with a wine list of 1,600 selections and 18,000 bottles in inventory, weighted toward Burgundy, California, Bordeaux, and Italy. Recognised by Star Wine List with a White Star and ranked by Opinionated About Dining in 2024, it sits at the serious end of Los Angeles wine bar dining, with American-French cuisine priced in the upper tier.
Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List
Watertable
Los Angeles, United States
Watertable in Huntington Beach delivers grill-centric contemporary American cuisine in a coastal resort setting. Must-try dishes include Lemon Blueberry Pancakes, the Soca Benedict, and Avocana. Under Chef Corina Rodriguez, the menu highlights seasonal California produce, fresh seafood and natural meats, paired with a Wine Spectator-recognized wine list and craft cocktails. Expect warm, inviting service, breakfast favorites that sharpen the morning, and evening plates that emphasize wood-fired flavors and clean, bright ingredients. Located on Pacific Coast Highway inside the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort & Spa, Watertable balances refined technique with approachable beachside comfort for memorable meals any time of day.
Wife & The Somm
Los Angeles, United States
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Wife & The Somm sits on Verdugo Road in Glassell Park, one of Los Angeles's quieter northeast neighbourhoods, where the combination of wine-forward programming and kitchen ambition has earned it a White Star recognition from Star Wine List. The name signals the format before you walk in: this is a restaurant shaped by the relationship between food and the bottle, in a city where that pairing is increasingly the editorial point.
Also recognized by Star Wine List

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