Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Long Beach
Three restaurants on this list hold a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence: Sky Room in Downtown Long Beach, Parkers' Lighthouse in Shoreline Village, and Queensview Steakhouse in Shoreline Village. L'Opera Italian Restaurant in Downtown Long Beach holds a Best of Award of Excellence, with an exceptional program, a sommelier-led extensive list, and live opera singers. Sky Room keeps a curated program, with American fine dining and seafood in a rooftop room atop Fairmont Breakers Long Beach.
Parkers' Lighthouse, in Shoreline Village, has an exceptional program, an extensive list, and a two-story wine cellar, with mesquite-grilled seafood and sushi. Queensview Steakhouse, also in Shoreline Village, has an exceptional program and an extensive list, with live jazz and harbor views that include the Queen Mary. 555 East, in Downtown Long Beach, has operated as a classic American steakhouse since 1984, with hand-cut dry-aged steaks, an exceptional wine program, and an extensive list.
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.
555 East
Exceptional wine program
At 555 East Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach's steakhouse scene meets the city's coastal edge in a setting that draws a consistent crowd of locals and visitors. The restaurant occupies a prominent address and operates in a tier where service coordination and floor experience carry as much weight as the kitchen. For Long Beach, it sits at the upper end of the accessible dining bracket.
L'Opera Italian Restaurant
Exceptional wine program
On the corner of Pine Avenue in downtown Long Beach, L'Opera Italian Restaurant has anchored the city's formal dining scene for decades, drawing a loyal crowd to its classical Italian format at a time when the category has largely retreated from American city centers. The address alone signals something about the restaurant's ambitions: a corner position on Long Beach's main pedestrian corridor, where the room carries weight before the food arrives.
Parkers' Lighthouse
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence · Exceptional wine program
Parkers' Lighthouse occupies a waterfront position on Long Beach's Shoreline Village strip, where the Pacific defines the plate as much as the kitchen does. Seafood-forward in character and shaped by Southern California's proximity to both coastal fisheries and agricultural inland valleys, it anchors a dining corridor that draws locals and visitors alike to the edge of the harbor.
Queensview Steakhouse
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence · Exceptional wine program
Positioned along the Shoreline Village waterfront at 435 Shoreline Village Drive, Queensview Steakhouse anchors the southern edge of Long Beach's dining corridor where the harbor meets the peninsula. The address places it squarely in the city's most visited stretch of coastline, where water views are the frame around which the meal is built. For steak in a city better known for seafood, it occupies a distinctive position on the waterfront dining circuit.
Sky Room
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Sky Room occupies the upper floors of a building on Ocean Boulevard, where the Pacific horizon frames the dining room in a way that few venues in Long Beach can match. The address places it at the convergence of the city's waterfront ambition and its increasingly serious dining scene. For visitors mapping the city's higher-end options, it sits alongside names like Heritage and 555 East as part of a small tier where setting and cooking are both in play.
Planning restaurants for wine lovers in Long Beach
- Which restaurants on this list hold a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence?
- Sky Room in Downtown Long Beach, Parkers' Lighthouse in Shoreline Village, and Queensview Steakhouse in Shoreline Village hold a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence on this list. All three awards are dated 2026. Sky Room's wine program is curated, with American fine dining and seafood. Parkers' Lighthouse and Queensview Steakhouse have exceptional programs and extensive lists, and Parkers' Lighthouse has a two-story wine cellar.
- Which restaurant on this list holds a Best of Award of Excellence?
- L'Opera Italian Restaurant, in Downtown Long Beach, holds the Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence on this list, dated 2026. The wine program is exceptional, the list is extensive, and a sommelier leads it. The restaurant serves authentic Italian cooking a la carte, with live opera singers, near performing arts venues.
- Which neighborhood has the most restaurants on this list?
- Downtown Long Beach has the most restaurants on this list, with three: Sky Room, L'Opera Italian Restaurant, and 555 East. Sky Room holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence with a curated program. L'Opera Italian Restaurant holds a Best of Award of Excellence on a sommelier-led list. 555 East carries an exceptional wine program and an extensive list at a classic American steakhouse.
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