40 Valley restaurants earn 2024 Wine Spectator awards

🍷 Wine Spectator has released its annual Restaurant Awards honoring 3,700-plus establishments worldwide for excellence in their wine programs.

The awards, which began in 1981, have three levels. Four restaurants – two in California and two in Europe – received the Grand Award, the top honor.

But 40 Arizona restaurants earned either an Award of Excellence or Best of Award of Excellence:

Best of Award of Excellence

• Anhelo (Phoenix)
• Bourbon Steak (Scottsdale)
• Café Monarch (Scottsdale)
• Elements (Paradise Valley)
• Ember (Fort McDowell)
• Geordie’s at the Wrigley Mansion (Phoenix)
• J&G Steakhouse (Scottsdale)
• Le Âme (Phoenix)
• Lon’s at the Hermosa (Paradise Valley)
• Maple & Ash (Scottsdale)
• Mastro’s City Hall Steakhouse (Scottsdale)
• Mastro’s Ocean Club (Scottsdale)
• Mastro’s Steakhouse (Scottsdale)
• Orange Sky (Scottsdale)
• Prime, A Shula Steakhouse (Chandler)
• The Capital Grille (Scottsdale)
• Vincent Guerithault on Camelback (Phoenix)
• Virtú Honest Craft (Scottsdale)

Award of Excellence

• Arrowhead Grill (Glendale)
• Beckett’s Table (Phoenix)
• Dolce Vita Bistro (Tempe)
• Eddie V’s Prime Seafood (Scottsdale)
• Fogo de Chão (Scottsdale)
• Frashers Tavern (Scottsdale)
• Hearth ’61 (Scottsdale)
• Kembara (Phoenix)
• Lincoln Steakhouse (Scottsdale)
• Litchfield’s (Litchfield Park)
• Marcellino Ristorante (Scottsdale)
• Morton’s, The Steakhouse (Scottsdale)
• Nineteen 86 Steakhouse (Glendale)
• Pa’La Kitchen (Phoenix)
• Preston’s Steakhouse (Scottsdale)
• Quiessence at the Farm (Phoenix)
• STK Scottsdale (Scottsdale)
• Seasons 52 (Phoenix)
• The Capital Grille (Phoenix)
• The Fat Ox (Scottsdale)
• The Mick Brasserie (Scottsdale)
• The Patio at Las Sendas (Mesa)

Only restaurants that pay an application fee of $595 are considered for the awards.