Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Sonoma
Four restaurants on this list hold Wine Spectator awards. Enclos in Sonoma Plaza, Hazel Hill in Healdsburg, and Layla at MacArthur Place in Sonoma hold Best of Award of Excellence. Stella in Kenwood holds Award of Excellence. Enclos also holds the guide's Michelin stars, with a sommelier-led 320-label list strong in California and France.
Valley in Sonoma Plaza keeps an exceptional natural wine list of organic and biodynamic selections. Hazel Hill's cellar holds 4,000 bottles, weighted toward California and France. Wit and Wisdom Sonoma in Downtown Sonoma serves hearth-oven California cooking. Its wine list holds a World's Best Wine Lists Awards 3-star accreditation. Bohemian Bistro in Occidental has a strong local wine focus. Santé in Sonoma runs a sommelier-led extensive list. Aya in Rohnert Park pairs an exceptional sommelier-led list with coastal California cuisine shaped by Filipino and Hawaiian influences.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants with a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award or a deep wine list, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Aya
Deep wine list
Aya brings Californian cooking into Sonoma’s farm-country conversation, where seasonality is not a slogan but the baseline expectation. With no public awards or chef-led mythology to lean on, the interest is simpler: how a Sonoma restaurant reads the region’s produce, wine-country tempo, and casual dining culture without turning dinner into a tasting-menu performance.
Bohemian Bistro
Deep wine list
Bohemian Bistro brings a French lens to Sonoma, a city where the table is often shaped as much by nearby farms and cellar culture as by formal technique. The draw is less about ceremony than fit: French bistro cooking makes sense here because it gives local produce, dairy, bread, and wine a familiar structure without turning the meal into a tasting-menu event.
Enclos
3 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Enclos earned two Michelin stars in its first full year on Sonoma's East Napa Street, placing contemporary Californian cooking at the summit of the town's dining tier. Chef Brian Limoges and Wine Director Ian Cobb run a tight, focused operation with a 320-label list strong in California and France. For serious dining in Wine Country, this is the address that matters in 2025.
Layla at MacArthur Place
Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Layla at MacArthur Place reads Sonoma through a hotel-restaurant lens: California produce, Mediterranean inflection, and wine-country pacing rather than tasting-menu ceremony. The room, terrace, and all-day format make it useful for travelers who want a polished meal without leaving the 64-room MacArthur Place property, while the menu keeps enough local-seasonal discipline to belong in Sonoma’s farm-to-table conversation.
Santé
Deep wine list
Santé at 100 Boyes Blvd sits at the quieter, more residential edge of Sonoma's dining map, where the Valley's wine-country ethos translates into a slower, more considered register than the plaza-facing competition. For visitors already touring the Sonoma wine corridor, its address places it in natural proximity to the region's vineyard-to-table traditions. Compare it against plaza stalwarts like Cafe La Haye or the contemporary ambition of Enclos before booking.
Stella
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Named one of Sonoma Magazine's Best New Restaurants of 2025, Stella sits on Sonoma Highway in Kenwood at the edge of wine country's working corridor. The recognition places it among a small cohort of newer openings drawing serious attention in a county where established names have long dominated dinner reservations. Booking ahead is advisable given its early-recognition status.
Valley
Deep wine list
Valley on Sonoma's First Street West earns its Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition two years running by doing what much of California wine country resists: offering honest, ingredient-forward Californian cooking at a genuinely accessible price. Salads, small plates, pasta, and protein served without ceremony in a setting that feels like the town itself..
Wit and Wisdom Sonoma
Deep wine list
Wit and Wisdom Sonoma holds a 3-Star Accreditation from the World of Fine Wine & Lifestyle Awards, placing it among a select tier of dining addresses on Sonoma's Broadway. Located at 1325 Broadway in the heart of Sonoma's town square district, it occupies a competitive bracket alongside the county's most recognised tables, where wine-country sensibility and culinary seriousness converge.
Planning restaurants for wine lovers in Sonoma
- Which restaurants on this list hold Wine Spectator awards?
- Four restaurants on this list hold Wine Spectator awards. Enclos in Sonoma Plaza, Hazel Hill in Healdsburg, and Layla at MacArthur Place in Sonoma hold Best of Award of Excellence. Hazel Hill and Layla at MacArthur Place hold that award for 2026. Stella in Kenwood holds Award of Excellence for 2026.
- Which restaurants on this list serve tasting menus?
- Tasting menus on this list are at Enclos in Sonoma Plaza, Santé in Sonoma, and Bohemian Bistro in Occidental. Enclos serves a tasting menu in a restored Victorian home, with French technique, Pacific and New England influences, and hyper-local Sonoma ingredients. Santé offers seasonal tasting menus of modern California-French cooking. Bohemian Bistro offers a tasting menu and a prix fixe in a small white-tablecloth room.
- What wine list styles show up on this list?
- Enclos in Sonoma Plaza keeps a 320-label list strong in California and France. Hazel Hill in Healdsburg keeps a 4,000-bottle cellar weighted toward California and France. Valley in Sonoma Plaza keeps a natural wine list of organic and biodynamic selections.
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