Which restaurants on this list hold a Wine Spectator award?

Three restaurants on this list hold a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence: Porch and Parlor in Overton Square, Chez Philippe in Downtown, and Amelia Gene’s in Downtown. Each award is dated 2026. Chez Philippe and Amelia Gene’s have exceptional wine programs. Porch and Parlor has a wine program. All three keep an extensive wine list, and Amelia Gene’s is sommelier-led with a rotating wine list.

Which restaurants on this list have an exceptional wine program?

Chez Philippe in Downtown, Amelia Gene’s in Downtown, Acre in East Memphis, Ronnie Grisanti's in Poplar Avenue, and Napa Café in Sanderlin Centre have exceptional wine programs on this list. Each of these five restaurants keeps an extensive wine list. Amelia Gene’s is sommelier-led, with a rotating wine list.

Which neighborhood has the most restaurants on this list?

Downtown has the most restaurants on this list, with two. They are Chez Philippe and Amelia Gene’s. Overton Square, East Memphis, Poplar Avenue, and Sanderlin Centre each have one restaurant on this list: Porch and Parlor, Acre, Ronnie Grisanti's, and Napa Café.

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Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Memphis

This page lists Memphis restaurants in our guide with a Wine Spectator award or an exceptional wine program. Porch and Parlor in Overton Square holds a wine list and a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence dated 2026. Chez Philippe and Amelia Gene’s in Downtown hold that award as well, with exceptional programs. Acre in East Memphis, Ronnie Grisanti's in Poplar Avenue, and Napa Café in Sanderlin Centre also keep exceptional programs.

Chez Philippe in Downtown is Memphis' only Forbes Four-Star restaurant, and it serves a tasting menu and prix fixe. Amelia Gene’s in Downtown is sommelier-led, with a rotating wine list and Thursday tasting menus. Acre in East Memphis holds a James Beard Award Semi Finalist recognition for Best Chef: Southeast in 2025, naming Andrew Adams and Wally Joe. Ronnie Grisanti's in Poplar Avenue is a traditional Italian trattoria open since 1909.

How this list is chosen: Restaurants with a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award or a deep wine list, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.

Acre
Deep wine list
Acre belongs to the Memphis dining conversation where ingredient sourcing, regional memory, and contemporary technique meet without turning Southern cooking into museum work. Its 2025 James Beard Award semifinalist recognition for Best Chef: Southeast, naming Andrew Adams and Wally Joe, places it in a serious regional frame rather than a purely local one.
Amelia Gene’s
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Amelia Gene’s brings Contemporary American cooking into Memphis, a city where farm-to-table language has to compete with barbecue, soul food, and Delta memory. The interest here is not a single chef mythology or trophy list, but how a modern kitchen in Memphis can work with seasonality, local appetite, and a dining public increasingly willing to treat the city as more than a comfort-food capital.
Chez Philippe
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Chez Philippe occupies the grand dining room of the historic Peabody Memphis hotel on Union Avenue, holding a four-star rating that places it in the upper tier of formal dining in the Mid-South. The room draws a consistent crowd of locals and visiting names, making it the reference point for occasion dining in a city better known for barbecue and soul food.
Napa Café
Deep wine list
Napa Café sits in the Laurelwood Shopping Center on Sanderlin Avenue, where East Memphis regulars have long treated it as a reliable neighborhood anchor. The menu draws on French-influenced American bistro cooking, and the dining room has the kind of easy familiarity that only comes from years of repeat customers. For the East Memphis dining scene, it occupies a steady, mid-tier position between casual chains and the city's fine-dining tier.
Porch and Parlor
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
On Madison Avenue in Memphis's Midtown, Porch and Parlor occupies a stretch where neighborhood habit and culinary ambition tend to overlap. The name signals something deliberate about pace and setting: a place built for lingering rather than table-turning. For visitors tracing Memphis's evolving dining scene beyond Beale Street, it warrants attention.
Ronnie Grisanti's
Deep wine list
Ronnie Grisanti's occupies a particular position in the Memphis Italian dining tradition: a Poplar Avenue address with decades of family lineage behind it, operating in a city where red-sauce heritage and Southern hospitality have long overlapped. The restaurant draws a loyal local following across both lunch and dinner, and sits within a broader Italian-American corridor that includes Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen and Amerigo.

Planning restaurants for wine lovers in Memphis

Which restaurants on this list hold a Wine Spectator award?: Three restaurants on this list hold a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence: Porch and Parlor in Overton Square, Chez Philippe in Downtown, and Amelia Gene’s in Downtown. Each award is dated 2026. Chez Philippe and Amelia Gene’s have exceptional wine programs. Porch and Parlor has a wine program. All three keep an extensive wine list, and Amelia Gene’s is sommelier-led with a rotating wine list.
Which restaurants on this list have an exceptional wine program?: Chez Philippe in Downtown, Amelia Gene’s in Downtown, Acre in East Memphis, Ronnie Grisanti's in Poplar Avenue, and Napa Café in Sanderlin Centre have exceptional wine programs on this list. Each of these five restaurants keeps an extensive wine list. Amelia Gene’s is sommelier-led, with a rotating wine list.
Which neighborhood has the most restaurants on this list?: Downtown has the most restaurants on this list, with two. They are Chez Philippe and Amelia Gene’s. Overton Square, East Memphis, Poplar Avenue, and Sanderlin Centre each have one restaurant on this list: Porch and Parlor, Acre, Ronnie Grisanti's, and Napa Café.