Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Los Angeles
Capo in Ocean Park holds a Wine Spectator Grand Award, with 2,725 selections across 13,500 bottles and particular strength in California, Burgundy, and Italy. Our guide counts 2 Grand Awards citywide, and Capo is the Grand Award restaurant on this list. Musso & Frank Grill in the Yucca Corridor holds a Best of Award of Excellence.
Providence in Hollywood and Mélisse in Santa Monica hold Michelin stars for 2026 and a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence, with exceptional sommelier-led lists and tasting menus. Osteria Mozza in Hancock Park holds one Michelin star and a Best of Award of Excellence, with handmade pasta and a mozzarella bar. Manuela in the Arts District holds a 4,000-bottle cellar spanning France, Italy, California, and Spain. République in Hancock Park holds a Michelin Plate and a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants with a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award or a deep wine list, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
1 Pico
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Sitting inside Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, 1 Pico delivers seasonal Californian seafood with the Pacific Ocean as a constant backdrop. The kitchen runs a market-driven menu that shifts with local sourcing, while floor-to-ceiling windows kept open to the sea breeze make the setting as much a draw as the food. A cheese course drawing from domestic artisan producers adds an unexpected depth to what reads as a relaxed coastal room.
71above
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.
Alba
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
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
Deep wine list
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
Deep wine list
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.
Antico Nuovo
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Opened in Koreatown and later settled on Beverly Boulevard, Antico Nuovo holds a Michelin Plate and ranked twelfth on the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants list for 2024. Chef Chad Colby works with whole-animal technique and preserved-food traditions that most of Los Angeles's Italian restaurants have abandoned, producing pasta and crudo that sit in a different register from the city's more cautious Italian mainstream.
Arthur J.
Deep wine list
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.
Avra
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Avra brings the Greek seafood tradition to Beverly Hills in a format that has grown considerably since its New York origins, 775-label wine list, Michelin Plate recognition in both 2024 and 2025, and a ranking inside Opinionated About Dining's North America Casual list. The room sits at the intersection of Mediterranean simplicity and Los Angeles scale, making it one of the more serious Greek tables on the West Coast.
Baltaire
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.
Bar Etoile
Deep wine list
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.
Barrique Venice
Deep wine list
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
Deep wine list
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.
Bianca
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Bianca occupies a quiet stretch of Washington Boulevard in Culver City, serving Italian-inflected Mediterranean cooking across a daytime café format and a focused evening service. The wine program, directed by Sergio Golfo and recognised by Opinionated About Dining in both 2024 and 2025, draws on Mexico, Italy, and France with a 600-bottle inventory and a $21 corkage fee. A neighbourhood fixture.
Botanica Restaurant and Market
Deep wine list
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.
Bruce
Deep wine list
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
Wine Spectator Grand Award · Deep wine list
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.
Carlitos Gardel
Deep wine list
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.
Catch LA
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
A seafood and small-plates destination on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood, Catch LA draws a consistent crowd to its rooftop dining room with a wine list built around French and California selections. Ranked by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, it sits in the casual-upscale tier of Los Angeles seafood dining, where the format leans social and the kitchen operates under Chef Adrian Vela.
Celestino
Deep wine list
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..
Chi Spacca
Deep wine list
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.
Delilah
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.
Fia Steak
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
A Michelin Plate-recognised steakhouse on Wilshire Boulevard, Fia Steak positions itself at the sharper end of Santa Monica's dining market with a wine program spanning 4,280 bottles and a list weighted toward France, Italy, and California. Chef Tim Cardenas leads the kitchen under owner Michael Greco, with Wine Director Patrick Ney overseeing one of the more serious cellar operations in the Westside's steak tier.
Giorgio Baldi
Deep wine list
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.
Girl & the Goat Los Angeles
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Girl & the Goat Los Angeles brings Stephanie Izard's Chicago-born concept to the Arts District, where a Michelin Plate recognition and a wine list of 220 selections signal a serious kitchen operating at the $$$ price tier. Chef Joseph Ronquillo leads a contemporary American menu that ranges wider than the steakhouse framing suggests, with California-focused wine pricing that holds the list accessible against the food's ambition.
Gwen
Deep wine list
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.
Hinoki & The Bird
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Hinoki & The Bird sits at the intersection of Japanese technique and California produce in Century City, drawing consistent recognition from Opinionated About Dining across multiple years. Chef Brandon Kida leads a menu that moves between Asian and Californian registers, backed by a wine list of 2,500 selections with particular depth in Burgundy, Bordeaux, and Italy. The two-course meal lands in the $40–$65 range, making it one of the more accessible entries in LA's Japanese-inflected dining tier.
Inn of the Seventh Ray
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Set along a creek in Topanga Canyon, Inn of the Seventh Ray has occupied an unusual position in Los Angeles dining since the 1970s: a nature-immersed restaurant that predates the city's current fixation on organic sourcing and outdoor atmosphere by decades. The canyon setting, open-air terraces, and a menu leaning on plant-forward and whole-ingredient cooking make it a reference point for a particular strand of California dining that the rest of the city is only now catching up to.
Javier's DTLA
Deep wine list
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
Deep wine list
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
2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
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.
La Boucherie
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
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
Deep wine list
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.
Maddalena Restaurant
Deep wine list
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.
majordōmo
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Ranked #69 on Opinionated About Dining's 2025 Casual North America list and holding a Michelin Plate, majordōmo has anchored the northern Chinatown industrial corridor since 2018. David Chang's Los Angeles flagship runs Korean-inflected California cooking through large-format dishes, smoked bo ssäm, whole short rib, in a warehouse space that draws a fashion-forward crowd. The wine list runs 515 selections across 3,175 bottles, with particular depth in France, California, and Italy.
Manuela
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Housed in a converted brick warehouse in the Arts District, Manuela operates at the intersection of farm-to-table cooking and serious wine culture. The kitchen, currently under Chef Sean Froedtert, has held a Michelin Plate since 2024 and drawn consecutive Opinionated About Dining recognition. A 4,000-bottle cellar with 400 selections spanning France, Italy, California, and Spain makes it a reference point for wine-focused dining in East Los Angeles.
Marea Beverly Hills
Deep wine list
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.
Mastro's Ocean Club
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
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
Deep wine list
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.
Melanie Wine Bar
Deep wine list
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
2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
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.
Musso & Frank Grill
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.
Napa Rose
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
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.
Osteria Mamma
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
On Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, Osteria Mamma occupies the space where Italian regional tradition meets California's formidable produce infrastructure. The kitchen draws on imported technique and local ingredient depth to deliver a neighborhood Italian experience that reads more seriously than the address might suggest. Booking ahead is advised, particularly on weekends.
Osteria Mozza
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Open since 2007 on Melrose Avenue, Osteria Mozza holds a Michelin star and a James Beard Award in Nancy Silverton's corner, and it has shaped how Los Angeles understands Italian cooking at the table-cloth tier. The mozzarella bar anchors the room; handmade pasta and a wine list of serious depth do the rest. Ranked 30th on the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants list for 2024, it remains a benchmark in the city's Italian category.
OTOTO
Deep wine list
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.
Peppone Restaurant
Deep wine list
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
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
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.
Providence
3 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
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.
République
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Located in a 1928 building on La Brea Avenue, République operates as a French-inspired bakery, café, and formal dining room under chefs Walter and Margarita Manzke. The restaurant holds a 2023 James Beard Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker, a Michelin Plate, and ranked #4 on the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants list in 2024. The wine program runs to nearly 1,845 selections and 9,280 bottles of inventory.
Restaurant Ki
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
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.
Rustic Canyon
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
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.
San Laurel
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
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.
Scopa Italian Roots
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
On Washington Boulevard in Venice, Scopa Italian Roots has built a reputation as one of Southern California's most consistently ranked Italian tables, placing #258 on Opinionated About Dining's 2025 North America list. Chef Antonia Lofaso leads a kitchen rooted in Italian-American tradition, with evening service running Tuesday through Sunday and Sunday brunch rounding out the week.
Seline
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
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.
Somni
3 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
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.
Sushi Note
Deep wine list
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..
Sycamore Kitchen
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
On South La Brea Avenue, Sycamore Kitchen operates in the register that Los Angeles does particularly well: the serious all-day café that doubles as a neighbourhood anchor. Open daily from 9 or 10am through mid-afternoon, the Quinn and Karen Hatfield project has earned recognition from Opinionated About Dining's Cheap Eats list across three consecutive years, a signal of consistent, calibrated cooking at accessible price points.
Telefèric Barcelona Los Angeles
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Telefèric Barcelona brings the cooking traditions of Catalonia to Los Angeles's Brentwood neighborhood, operating from 11930 San Vicente Blvd as one of the city's more committed outposts of Spanish regional cuisine. The menu architecture draws on wood-fire technique and ingredient-forward preparation that characterizes serious Catalan cooking. For LA diners tracking the city's European-inflected dining options, it occupies a distinct position in a market that more often defaults to Italian or French references.
The Polo Lounge
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Open since 1941, The Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel has logged more Hollywood history than most film archives. The see-and-be-seen dining room draws a steady mix of industry figures, socialites, and international visitors who come as much for the atmosphere as for the McCarthy salad and Dutch apple pancakes that have anchored the menu for decades. Ranked #368 among North American restaurants by Opinionated About Dining in 2025.
The Restaurant at Hotel Bel-Air
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Set on twelve acres of private gardens in Bel-Air, The Restaurant at Hotel Bel-Air occupies one of Los Angeles’s most architecturally considered dining rooms. The space trades on a specific register of California luxury: gardens visible from every angle, a Swan Lake at the perimeter, and a kitchen tradition that stretches back decades. For the Westside, it remains a reference point for formal occasion dining.
The Royce
Deep wine list
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.
Tomat
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
A Michelin Plate-recognised Californian farm-to-table restaurant in Westchester, Tomat operates an all-day format built around seasonal ingredients and a distinctive British-Persian culinary crossover. With a rooftop terrace, urban garden, and event space on West 87th Street, it earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Hit List, making it one of the more quietly consequential openings near LAX in recent memory.
Toscana
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Toscana has anchored the Brentwood dining scene for decades, serving regional Tuscan cuisine at a price point ($$$) that reflects both its kitchen ambition and a wine program of serious depth. Ranked #217 in Opinionated About Dining's Casual North America list for 2025, it carries a 305-selection Italian-and-California cellar of 3,000 bottles overseen by Wine Director Roberto Facciolla, a list that quietly sets it apart from most Italian restaurants in Los Angeles.
Verse
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Verse occupies a quieter register of Toluca Lake's dining scene, where the San Fernando Valley's residential character shapes a more considered pace than the city's high-profile corridors. The room rewards attention: its atmosphere is calibrated for conversation rather than spectacle, and the kitchen operates in a register where craft takes precedence over showmanship. For Los Angeles diners willing to cross the hill, it offers a counterpoint to the city's more visible fine-dining tier.
Wally’s
Wine Spectator Grand Award · Deep wine list
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.
Watertable
Deep wine list
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
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
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.
Planning restaurants for wine lovers in Los Angeles
- Which restaurant on this list holds a Wine Spectator Grand Award?
- Capo in Ocean Park holds the Wine Spectator Grand Award on this list. The cellar is 2,725 selections across 13,500 bottles, with particular strength in California, Burgundy, and Italy. Bruce Marder serves wood-fired Italian dishes, and the wine program is exceptional. Our guide counts 2 Grand Awards citywide.
- Which restaurants on this list have the highest stated bottle counts?
- Napa Rose in Anaheim, Capo in Ocean Park, and République in Hancock Park have the highest bottle counts stated on this list. Napa Rose lists a 14,000-bottle wine inventory. Capo lists 13,500 bottles, with particular strength in California, Burgundy, and Italy. République lists 9,280 bottles of inventory.
- Which Michelin-starred restaurants on this list also hold a Wine Spectator award?
- Providence in Hollywood, Somni in Norma Triangle, Kato in Downtown, Mélisse in Santa Monica, and Osteria Mozza in Hancock Park hold a Michelin star and a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. Providence and Somni hold three stars for 2026. Kato and Mélisse hold two, and Mozza holds one. Each of the five has an extensive wine list.
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