Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Healdsburg
How this list is chosen: Restaurants holding a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award or rated as having an exceptional wine program, listed alphabetically.
Barndiva
Exceptional wine program
Barndiva Healdsburg transforms farm-to-table dining into immersive cultural theater, where Chef Erik Anderson's Michelin-starred cuisine celebrates Sonoma County's agricultural bounty within a custom-built barn and adjacent art gallery spanning a half-acre of thoughtfully designed spaces.
Bravas Bar de Tapas
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
On Healdsburg's central plaza, Bravas Bar de Tapas brings a French-Italian sensibility to the Spanish tapas format, earning consecutive Opinionated About Dining recognition from 2023 through 2025. Wine director Vanessa Roberge oversees a 350-selection list with 3,000-bottle inventory, priced accessibly against Sonoma County peers. Open daily from 11:30 am, it occupies the casual end of a dining scene that otherwise skews formal and tasting-menu-heavy.
Dry Creek Kitchen
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Exceptional wine program
A Michelin Plate-recognised American restaurant on Healdsburg's central plaza, Dry Creek Kitchen operates within the Charlie Palmer Collective and pairs chef-driven cooking with one of Sonoma County's deeper wine lists — 655 selections across 4,120 bottles, priced at a mid-tier markup that keeps serious Californian wine accessible alongside the food. Dinner service positions it as a reliable anchor for the town's dining scene.
Little Saint
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Little Saint occupies a particular position in Healdsburg's dining scene: a plant-based restaurant serious enough to earn back-to-back rankings on Opinionated About Dining's Casual North America list (#476 in 2025, #510 in 2024), with a wine program of 4,400 bottles weighted toward France, California, and Burgundy. Open Thursday through Monday for lunch and dinner, it serves farm-to-table vegan food at accessible price points alongside a wine list that punches well above them.
Single Thread Farm
3 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Grand Award · Exceptional wine program
Single Thread Farm sits at the point where Sonoma agriculture meets the discipline of Japanese multi-course dining. The Healdsburg restaurant carries three Michelin stars for 2025, La Liste 99 points for 2026, and a 2026 OAD North America rank of No. 4, with the farm, inn, wine program, and kitchen operating as one tightly controlled hospitality system.
The Matheson
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Exceptional wine program
A Michelin Plate-recognised contemporary American restaurant on Healdsburg's central square, The Matheson pairs Chef Nate Davis's dinner-only menu with one of Sonoma County's most serious wine programs: 4,305 bottles across 465 selections, anchored in California, France, and Italy, with Wine Director Jon McCarthy overseeing a list priced at mid-tier markup. Dinner runs $66 and above for a two-course baseline.
Valette
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence · Exceptional wine program
Valette sits in Healdsburg's center-square dining tier alongside Barndiva and Dry Creek Kitchen, distinguishing itself through a market-driven Californian menu with French-inflected technique and one of Sonoma County's deeper wine lists. Ranked #576 on Opinionated About Dining's 2025 Casual North America list and recognized with a Michelin Plate, it draws steady local support for dinner service six nights a week.
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