More than 30 Michigan restaurants were recently recognized for having extraordinary wine lists.
The lifestyle magazine Wine Spectator released its Restaurant Awards list for 2025, which highlights restaurants from all over the world based on their wine offerings.
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The award program dates back to 1981, and now includes restaurants from more than 70 countries and all 50 U.S. states.
This year, 3,181 restaurants made the list, and 39 of them are in Michigan. The restaurants are categorized into three different award levels, including the Award of Excellence, the Best of Award of Excellence and the Grand Award.
Here’s the full list of Michigan restaurants:
- Bridge Street Social (Dewitt)
- Butch’s Dry Dock (Holland)
- Copper Rock Steakhouse (New Buffalo)
- Kankakee Grille (New Buffalo)
- Nibi (Battle Creek)
- Noto’s Old World Italian Dining (Grand Rapids)
- Prime + Proper (Detroit)
- Salle à Manger (Mackinac Island)
- San Morello (Detroit)
- The Capital Grille (Troy)
- The Earle (Ann Arbor)
- The State Room (East Lansing)
- The Station 100 (Frankenmuth)
- Vertical Detroit (Detroit)
- Alpino (Detroit)
- Brentwood Grille (Novi)
- Cafe Mamo (Grand Rapids)
- Cantoro Trattoria (Plymouth)
- Coast 236 Restaurant & Bar (Saugatuck)
- Coeur (Ferndale)
- Cut River Grille (Roscommon)
- Eddie Merlot’s (Bloomfield Hills)
- Eddie V’s Prime Seafood (Troy)
- Five Steakhouse (Plymouth)
- Fogo de Chão (Troy)
- Gaucho Brazilian SteakHouse (Northville)
- Highlands (Detroit)
- Morton’s, The Steakhouse (Troy)
- Paesano Restaurant and Wine Bar (Ann Arbor)
- Seasons 52 (Troy)
- Slopeside Lounge at the Highlands (Harbor Springs)
- Streetside Seafood (Birmingham)
- Sullivan’s Steakhouse (Detroit)
- The Blue Llama Jazz Club (Ann Arbor)
- The English Inn (Eaton Rapids)
- The Wine Grotto (Plymouth)
- Vernales Restaurant (Harbor Springs)
- Vintage Chophouse (Bay Harbor)
- Weber’s Restaurant (Ann Arbor)
To see the full list of restaurants, visit here.
For more information on the history of Wine Spectator’s Restaurant Awards Program, visit here.