Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Los Olivos from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Los Olivos
These are the places where wine leads the visit, from producer-direct tasting rooms to dining rooms with serious lists.
Los Olivos Wine Merchant & Cafe is a California Wine Country Cafe in Los Olivos. A working wine shop shares the room with a casual cafe, and the menu is a la carte. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive wine list of over 500 mostly local Central Coast wines. Organic sustainable cuisine comes from its own certified farm.
A California Ranch-Inspired American dining room with an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. It runs a la carte and small plates, draws from an on-site garden and a live-fire kitchen, and carries Michelin Plate awards in 2024, 2025, and 2026.
Stolpman Vineyards - Los Olivos Tasting Room is a Wine Tasting Room in Los Olivos. It serves small plates. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive wine list and natural wine.
These rooms show the village's range, from seafood and Mediterranean cooking to simple midday food between tastings.
Bar Le Côte is a Modern Seafood Tavern in Los Olivos. Shared maritime plates come as a tasting menu, a la carte, and small plates. Chef Brad Mathews leads the kitchen, from the team behind Bell's. Michelin Plate awards date to 2024, 2025, and 2026. Esquire named it Best New Restaurants #22 in 2022, and it was a James Beard Award Semi Finalist in 2025.
A Greek-Mediterranean room with California influences, built around California wines and authentic Greek dips and ingredients imported from Greece. The format runs a la carte and small plates in Los Olivos, with an extensive wine list.
An Italian-Inspired Sandwiches & Salads spot with a simple a la carte format. It is known for gourmet Italian-inspired sandwiches in Los Olivos and brings a quick-service format to the village.
Los Olivos has the strongest wine scene in our guide. It holds 19 venues, including tasting rooms, wine-focused cafes, restaurants, bars, and hotels. Foxen Canyon appears once, at Demetria Estate, so the village core contains most of the dining and wine options.
Los Olivos has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Bar Le Côte and Mattei's Tavern hold Michelin Plate awards for 2026. Both restaurants have extensive wine lists, with seafood at Bar Le Côte and California ranch-inspired American cooking at Mattei's Tavern.
The strongest wine programs cluster at Los Olivos Wine Merchant & Cafe, Mattei's Tavern, and Stolpman Vineyards - Los Olivos Tasting Room. Those three venues in our guide carry exceptional wine programs, with over 500 mostly local Central Coast wines at Los Olivos Wine Merchant & Cafe and extensive wine lists at the other two.
Bar Le Côte and Mattei's Tavern hold Michelin Plate awards in our guide for 2024, 2025, and 2026, and The Inn at Mattei's Tavern, Auberge Resorts Collection has Michelin Selected recognition for 2025 plus a Michelin 1 Key for 2026 with 500 points.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Bar Le Côte brings a Spanish-California seafood lens to Los Olivos wine country, earning consecutive Michelin Plates in 2024 and 2025 alongside an Esquire Best New Restaurants nod in 2022. Under Chef Brad Mathews, the kitchen frames the Central Coast's maritime proximity as a serious sourcing advantage, a proposition that reads as quietly ambitious for a town better known for Pinot Noir than Pacific catch.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised dining room operating inside a restored 19th-century stagecoach stop, Mattei's Tavern brings Auberge Resorts' California hospitality to Los Olivos wine country. Chef Rhoda Magbitang's shared-plates menu draws from an on-site garden and a live-fire kitchen, with dishes that sit comfortably in the California farm-to-table tradition while reaching toward more ambitious technique.
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A fixture on Grand Avenue in Los Olivos, Wine Merchant & Cafe sits at the intersection of Santa Barbara Wine Country's retail and dining culture. The format pairs a working wine shop with a casual cafe, making it a practical first stop for visitors mapping the region's appellations. Its location on the main strip places it steps from the village's tasting rooms and dining options.
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On Grand Avenue in Los Olivos, PANINO occupies a spot at the centre of Santa Barbara Wine Country's casual-but-serious dining culture. The format reads direct: a sandwich-forward menu designed for wine country visitors moving between tasting rooms, anchored in the kind of unhurried midday rhythm that defines this stretch of the Santa Ynez Valley. It sits a short walk from several tasting rooms and a natural stop between pours.
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Petros Winery sits on Foxen Canyon Road in Los Olivos, one of Santa Barbara County's most productive wine corridors. The address places it squarely within a stretch of small-production estates that have quietly reshaped California's conversation about Rhône and Burgundian varieties grown away from the Napa spotlight. For visitors making the drive from Santa Barbara or San Luis Obispo, it is a natural anchor for a focused afternoon in wine country.
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Stolpman Vineyards' Los Olivos tasting room on Alamo Pintado Avenue sits at the center of Santa Barbara wine country's most concentrated stretch of producer-direct hospitality. The project connects estate-grown Rhône and Italian varieties from Ballard Canyon to a village-scale tasting experience, placing it firmly within the region's farm-to-glass tradition rather than the polished resort circuit.
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A 19th-century stagecoach stop reimagined as a wine country retreat, The Inn at Mattei's Tavern sits within walking distance of 27 tasting rooms in downtown Los Olivos. Part of the Auberge Resorts Collection and ranked #32 on Condé Nast's Best Hotels list for 2025, the property trades resort scale for an intimate atmosphere that reads more like a well-appointed historic inn than a managed hotel.
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A 19-room inn on Grand Avenue in Los Olivos, Fess Parker Wine Country Inn places guests at the center of Santa Barbara Wine Country without the scale of a resort. The property reads as a village-scaled retreat, close enough to walk to tasting rooms, far enough from the highway to feel genuinely removed. For travelers working the Santa Ynez Valley circuit, it functions as a considered base rather than a destination in itself.
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The Other Room is worth it for a casual Los Olivos drink stop when wine tasting starts to feel repetitive. Go for rotating craft beer, wine by the glass, cider to go, and savory snacks like tinned fish, pickled eggs, and pâté; skip it if you need dinner, outdoor seating, or a late-night bar.
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Demetria Vineyards operates along Foxen Canyon Road in Los Olivos, producing estate wines since its first vintage in 2005 under winemaker Harry Waye. It suits visitors who prioritise estate-focused viticulture over the high-volume tasting room circuit.
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Among Santa Barbara County's cooler-climate white wine specialists, it occupies a distinct position, prioritizing restraint and acidity over the richer, oak-forward style that once defined California Chardonnay.
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Under winemakers Sashi Moorman and John Faulkner, the estate has built a following around Rhône-inflected varieties and natural-leaning production methods that sit at the serious end of California's Central Coast conversation.
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Andrew Murray Vineyards has operated out of Los Olivos since 1993. Positioned on Grand Avenue among a concentration of serious tasting rooms, the winery traces a long lineage in a region that took Syrah and Grenache seriously before most of California did.
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Artiste Winery and Tasting Studio sits at the quieter end of Los Olivos's tasting room circuit, where winemaker Bion Rice has been crafting site-specific wines since 2002. For visitors who prioritize viticulture depth over volume, the studio format offers a different register than the village's busier walk-in rooms.
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Dragonette Cellars, operating since its first vintage in 2005, is a Santa Barbara County producer. The tasting room on Alamo Pintado Avenue in Los Olivos places it at the centre of one of California's most active wine village circuits, where Burgundian and Rhône-influenced sensibilities define the upper tier of producers.
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Solminer Wine Company operates from the village of Los Olivos in Santa Barbara County, producing small-lot wines under the direction of winemakers Christine and David DeLaski since their first vintage in 2012..
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Storm Wines is a small-production winery in Los Olivos, California, operating since its first vintage in 2006 under winemaker Ernst Storm. It sits alongside peers including Dragonette Cellars and Liquid Farm in a county cohort defined by Burgundian variety focus and allocation-driven distribution.
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