Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Los Gatos
Los Gatos has a compact group of restaurants where wine sits at the center of the meal. Tasting House in Los Gatos brings over 1,000 bottles and a 15-course tasting menu, while Enoteca La Storia offers about 200 wines by the taste, glass, or bottle in a wine bar format. In Downtown Los Gatos, Dio Deka, Épernay Bistro, and Centonove each pair distinct cooking styles with serious lists. ASA South adds a menu with wine weighted toward California, France, and Italy. Wine Cellar in Old Town and Centonove in Downtown Los Gatos round out the list.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants with a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award or a deep wine list, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
ASA South
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
ASA South occupies the mid-tier of Los Gatos dining with a Californian menu that earns its keep on seasonality and a wine list weighted toward California, France, and Italy. Back-to-back Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025 gives it a credible foothold in a town where the competition includes a three-Michelin-starred neighbor. The price point sits at $40–$65 for a two-course meal, making it one of the more accessible entries in the local fine-casual tier.
Centonove
Deep wine list
Centonove occupies a corner of West Main Street in Los Gatos, positioning itself within a downtown dining corridor that runs from casual to considered. The address places it alongside a range of options, from the Cajun-inflected Bywater to the acclaimed modernist work at Manresa, giving diners a clear sense of where Italian-rooted cooking sits in this compact Silicon Valley town.
Dio Deka
Deep wine list
Dio Deka brings serious Greek cooking to Los Gatos's downtown dining strip, earning consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025 alongside a White Star from Star Wine List. Open Wednesday through Sunday from 5pm, the restaurant operates at a $$$ price point and holds a 4.. Its wine program and olive oil-anchored menu place it among the Santa Cruz Mountains corridor's more considered dinner options.
Enoteca La Storia
Deep wine list
The format signals an enoteca tradition rooted in the Italian model: wine as the organizing principle, food as its complement. For the South Bay, that framing is relatively rare and worth understanding before you book.
Épernay Bistro
Deep wine list
A French-inflected bistro on Los Gatos's walkable Main Street, Épernay occupies a distinct position in a town whose dining scene runs from David Kinch's Michelin-starred Manresa to casual neighbourhood staples. The room's European character and wine-forward sensibility read as a deliberate counterpoint to the Silicon Valley casual that dominates the surrounding South Bay dining circuit.
Forbes Mill Steakhouse
Deep wine list
Forbes Mill Steakhouse on North Santa Cruz Avenue sits at the more formal end of Los Gatos dining, recognized by Star Wine List with a White Star for its wine program. The room draws a Silicon Valley crowd that expects serious beef and a cellar to match. It occupies a distinct tier in a town where Greek tavernas, California-casual plates, and bakery counters define most of the restaurant mile.
Tasting House
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Tasting House is a wine bar and restaurant on Village Lane in Los Gatos, holding a 2-Star Accreditation from the World of Fine Wine Wine Bar Awards as recognized on Star Wine List in April 2023. It sits at the intersection of the Santa Cruz Mountains wine region and a compact downtown dining scene that includes Manresa and ASA South. The format is built around the wine list, with food that supports rather than dominates the experience.
Wine Cellar
Deep wine list
Wine Cellar occupies a quietly significant address on University Avenue in the heart of Los Gatos, a town where the proximity to Santa Cruz Mountain vineyards and Silicon Valley wealth has produced a dining scene far more considered than its size suggests. The venue sits within a local restaurant circuit that rewards those who look beyond the obvious tourist draw, and Los Gatos rewards looking closely.
Planning restaurants for wine lovers in Los Gatos
- Which Los Gatos restaurants in this list have Wine Spectator awards?
- Two restaurants here hold Wine Spectator awards: Tasting House has a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence, and ASA South has a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence. Those are the only Wine Spectator award winners on this list, and both pair the award with an extensive wine program.
- Which restaurant here has the deepest wine program?
- Tasting House in Los Gatos has over 1,000 bottles curated by 10 sommeliers, plus a 15-course tasting menu. Its wine program is exceptional, and it also holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence.
- Where are the main wine-led rooms located?
- The main wine-led rooms are in Los Gatos, Downtown Los Gatos, downtown Los Gatos, and Old Town. Tasting House and Enoteca La Storia are in Los Gatos, Dio Deka and Centonove are in Downtown Los Gatos, Épernay Bistro is in downtown Los Gatos, and Wine Cellar is in Old Town.
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