Explore our curated restaurants, hotels, bars, and wineries in Newport.
Accolades in Newport
These Newport rooms pair strong wine programs with formats that give the cellar a clear role in dinner.
In Cliff Walk, Cara pairs contemporary European fine dining with an exceptional wine program, an extensive wine list, and sommelier-led service. It offers tasting menu and prix fixe formats, and its awards include Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence, AAA 5 Diamond, and Forbes 5-Star.
In Ocean Drive, Aurelia at Castle Hill serves a six-course coastal New England tasting menu overlooking Narragansett Bay, with local seafood and produce. It has an exceptional wine program, an extensive wine list, and sommelier-led service, in tasting menu and prix fixe formats. Awards include Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence, AAA 5 Diamond, Forbes 5-Star, and a Relais Chateaux Award.
In Historic Downtown Newport, White Horse Tavern has operated since 1673 as a colonial tavern, with contemporary New England cooking served a la carte. It holds an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list, plus Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence recognition.
Newport’s wharf and harbor districts concentrate the seafood-led rooms that define the city’s waterfront dining.
In waterfront, The Mooring Seafood Kitchen & Bar serves New England seafood a la carte from a mahogany-planked patio over Newport Harbor. The patio has panoramic nautical views, and the seafood is local. The wine program is exceptional, and the list is extensive.
In Bowen's Wharf, 22 Bowen's serves classic prime steaks and New England seafood in an a la carte format on historic Bowen's Wharf, with the working harbor visible from the dining room. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive wine list.
In Downtown Waterfront, The Black Pearl has served classic American seafood in an a la carte format for decades. The menu includes New England clam chowder, a raw bar, and lobster preparations from New England coastal cooking. The room draws locals and visitors.
Cliff Walk, Ocean Drive, and Historic Downtown Newport hold the Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence restaurants in our guide. Exceptional wine programs also appear in waterfront and in Bowen's Wharf, at The Mooring Seafood Kitchen & Bar and 22 Bowen's, both with extensive lists.
There are 0 Michelin-starred restaurants in Newport in our guide, and the Michelin stars total is 0. Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence recognition is held by Cara in Cliff Walk, Aurelia at Castle Hill in Ocean Drive, and White Horse Tavern in Historic Downtown Newport.
Cliff Walk and Ocean Drive hold the tasting-menu restaurants in our guide. Cara in Cliff Walk offers tasting menu and prix fixe formats, with a sommelier-led exceptional wine program and daily-changing menus using New England ingredients. Aurelia at Castle Hill in Ocean Drive serves a six-course tasting menu overlooking Narragansett Bay, also in a prix fixe format, with sommelier-led service and an exceptional wine program.
Cara in Cliff Walk, Aurelia at Castle Hill in Ocean Drive, and White Horse Tavern in Historic Downtown Newport are the restaurants in our guide with Wine Spectator awards. The award level is Best of Award of Excellence. Cara and Aurelia at Castle Hill hold it for 2026 and 2025, and White Horse Tavern holds it for 2026.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Best of Newport
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Cara at The Chanler at Cliff Walk holds AAA 5 Diamond status and a La Liste score of 86 points (2025), placing it among the more formally recognized fine-dining rooms in Rhode Island. Dinner runs Wednesday through Sunday in two blind tasting formats: five courses at 5 p.m. or eight courses at 8 p.m. Reservations are required; business casual dress code applies.
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Aurelia at Castle Hill reopened in time for Memorial Day 2026 after fire restoration, with reservations available and Quentin Diez as chef de cuisine.
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Situated on Commercial Wharf with the harbor at close range, Giusto brings a multi-course, progression-driven format to Newport's waterfront dining scene. The address places it among the city's more considered dinner options, drawing comparisons to coastal fine-dining programs elsewhere in New England. For visitors working through Newport's restaurant tier, it represents the kind of sit-down commitment the wharf district rewards.
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America's oldest continuously operating tavern, the White Horse Tavern has anchored Newport's Marlborough Street since 1673. The colonial building and its history place it in a category few American restaurants can claim, where the room itself is as much the point as what arrives at the table. For visitors tracing Newport's colonial past, it belongs on the itinerary alongside the waterfront and the Breakers.
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Sitting directly on Bowens Wharf in Newport, Rhode Island, 22 Bowen's occupies among the more directly waterfront dining positions in the city. The restaurant draws on New England's coastal supply chains, with the working harbor visible from the dining room serving as both backdrop and context for what arrives on the plate. Among Newport's wharf-side options, it holds a consistent place in the conversation about serious seafood dining.
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Perched on Bannister's Wharf in Newport, Rhode Island, Clarke Cooke House occupies among the more storied waterfront addresses on the New England coast. The multi-level dining rooms draw on the harbour's seafood tradition while the setting — historic timber, salt air, and the masts of classic yachts just beyond the windows — does much of the heavy lifting before the first course arrives.
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Franklin Spa occupies a Spring Street address that has served Newport's working waterfront community for generations, operating as a no-frills counter-service diner rather than a day spa. The format is direct: coffee, breakfast sandwiches, and quick lunch plates at prices that reflect local rather than tourist economics. For visitors exploring Newport beyond the Bellevue Avenue circuit, it functions as a useful orientation point into the city's everyday dining culture.
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Jennie Kay Beauty occupies the third floor of 140 Thames Street in Newport, Rhode Island, bringing a specialist beauty experience to one of the city's most storied commercial corridors. The address places it squarely within the fabric of Newport's walkable downtown, accessible to both locals making standing appointments and visitors building it into a longer stay.
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Malt occupies 150 Broadway in Newport, Rhode Island, placing it within a city whose dining scene has shifted steadily toward year-round ambition rather than seasonal resort fare. The address situates it on a stretch of Broadway that has drawn a more locally rooted crowd than the Bellevue Avenue tourist corridor, making it a reference point for Newport's evolving neighborhood dining identity.
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At 150 Long Wharf, Newport Lobster Shack sits where working waterfront meets casual dining ritual. The live market format puts the decision-making squarely on the diner: choose your lobster, watch it cooked, eat it facing the harbor. It is one of coastal New England's more direct expressions of the dock-to-table tradition that defines this stretch of Rhode Island.
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Perro Salado occupies a compact Charles Street address in the heart of Newport's Point neighborhood, where the city's dining scene trades waterfront spectacle for something more grounded. The restaurant draws a local following and visiting crowd in roughly equal measure, functioning as a neighborhood anchor in a city that can otherwise feel organized entirely around summer tourism.
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Sardella's occupies a Memorial Boulevard address in the heart of Newport, Rhode Island, placing it steps from the waterfront corridor where the city's dining scene concentrates. The restaurant draws on Newport's Italian-American traditions while sitting within a competitive field that includes coastal American and modern American formats. It is a reference point for visitors mapping the city's mid-to-upper dining tier.
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On Bannister's Wharf, The Black Pearl has anchored Newport's waterfront dining scene for decades, drawing locals and visitors to one of Rhode Island's most recognizable seafood addresses. The menu reads as a study in New England coastal tradition, with chowder and lobster preparations that have defined the restaurant's reputation across generations of diners.
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On Thames Street in the heart of Newport's waterfront district, The Grill occupies a position at the center of the city's casual-to-serious dining spectrum. With Rhode Island's coastal pantry close at hand and a neighborhood built on centuries of maritime commerce, the address carries more culinary weight than a quick pass down the street might suggest. Reserve ahead, particularly in summer, when Newport's visitor numbers push all good tables toward capacity.
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Positioned on Sayers Wharf with direct sight lines over Newport Harbor, The Mooring Seafood Kitchen & Bar occupies one of Rhode Island's most-recognized waterfront dining addresses. The format is seafood-forward, the setting is harbour-facing, and the location places it within walking distance of Bannister's Wharf and the broader Thames Street corridor. For Newport's busy summer season, planning ahead is advisable.
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Yagi Noodles occupies a compact space at Long Wharf Mall in Newport, Rhode Island, bringing a focused noodle format to a waterfront district better known for raw bars and New England seafood houses. The counter sits inside Newport's broader casual dining corridor, where the format trades the town's prevailing coastal register for something more broth-forward and precise.
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Castle Hill Inn reopened after its February 2026 fire; dining, spa, one mansion room and Harbor/Beach accommodations are bookable while mansion restoration continues.
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Completed in 1873 as a Gilded Age summer mansion on Newport's Cliff Walk, The Chanler is the only hotel with direct access to the 3.5-mile coastal path. Twenty rooms span Tudor, Victorian, Mediterranean, and Renaissance period styles, each with a fireplace and most with Jacuzzi tubs. Forbes Travel Guide Five Star and Michelin 2 Keys recognition place it among Newport's most formally credentialed properties, with rates from $950 per night.
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A 33-room Auberge Resorts property occupying a 1909 Vanderbilt mansion in downtown Newport, earning a Michelin Key in 2024. Rooms run large by historic-hotel standards, some spanning two floors, with rates from $889. The Dining Room under one of New England's most decorated chefs anchors a property that functions as Newport's most talked-about address for coastal food and social programming.
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A Michelin Key-recognised boutique hotel in Newport's historic district, the Cliffside Inn occupies a restored Victorian house once owned by painter Beatrice Turner. Lark Hotels' 2019 renovation produced 16 rooms that pair gas fireplaces and contemporary bathrooms with Turner's original artwork, placing the property at the more intimate end of Newport's premium accommodation tier. Rates from $321 per night.
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Positioned directly on Newport Harbor at the corner of America's Cup Avenue and Long Wharf, the Brenton Hotel opened in 2020 as a 57-room boutique property oriented around harbor access and anticipatory service. Rooms scale to suite proportions, and the concierge program connects guests to Newport's sailing culture, mansion circuit, and waterfront dining without requiring a car.
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Named Rhode Island's Leading Boutique Hotel at the 2025 World Travel Awards, The Attwater occupies a deliberate position in Newport's accommodation spectrum: design-led, independently scaled, and rooted in the measured pace that the city's historic Liberty Street address encourages. For travellers who find the Gilded Age grandeur of Newport's cliff-walk estates too theatrical, this is the quieter alternative.
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It carries Michelin's 2025 selection credential alongside Newport peers such as Castle Hill Inn and The Chanler at Cliff Walk, making it a reference point for the city's premium hospitality scene.
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Gardiner House occupies a wharf-side position on Newport's harbor, earning a place on the Michelin Selected Hotels list for 2025. The address at 24 Lee's Wharf places guests within reach of Newport's sailing culture, Gilded Age architecture, and the Atlantic waterfront that defines the city's character as a retreat destination on the American Northeast coast.
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Gilded sits on Brinley Street in Newport's historic Hill district, carrying a Michelin Selected distinction for 2025 that places it among a narrow tier of recognized small hotels in Rhode Island. The property operates in the tradition of the city's converted mansion stays, where architecture and intimacy do more work than scale. Travelers who want proximity to the Bellevue Avenue corridor without the event-hotel atmosphere will find the positioning deliberate.
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Gurney's Newport Resort & Marina occupies Goat Island, a harbor-set position that places guests in the middle of Narragansett Bay with unobstructed views of Newport's working waterfront. The property sits in a different tier from the city's boutique mansions and cliff-walk inns, trading historic-house intimacy for marina-scale amenity and open water access. For travelers prioritizing location over architectural restraint, few Newport addresses compete on geography alone.
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Hammetts Hotel occupies a prime position on Newport's Commercial Wharf, placing guests within walking distance of the harbor, the historic waterfront district, and the sailing culture that defines the city. Recognized by the Michelin Guide as a Selected hotel for 2025, it sits in a competitive tier of Newport properties that trade on location as much as service. For travelers who want the water close and the town within reach, the address does much of the work.
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Hilltop Inn occupies a residential address on Kay Street in Newport, Rhode Island, placing it within walking distance of the city's historic district and waterfront. The inn operates in a tier of smaller, independently positioned properties that serve as an alternative to Newport's larger resort hotels. Visitors drawn to the city's Gilded Age architecture and sailing culture use it as a compact base.
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Positioned on Bowens Wharf with water views that define Newport's working-harbour character, Fluke Newport operates in a drinking-and-dining scene that prizes maritime setting as much as what's in the glass. Among the waterfront options along this stretch, Fluke draws a crowd that leans into the coastal context. See how it fits the broader Newport bar and restaurant picture before you book.
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