BOA Steakhouse

The wine list at BOA lands like a statement piece — 400-plus bottles, heavy on California and France, with enough trophy names to make your eyes go wide before your wallet starts sweating. This is Sunset Strip dining, and the list knows exactly what room it's in. It's aspirational and curated, built for the kind of night where someone's celebrating something or pretending to.

California is the heart of this list, and BOA leans hard into the cult-and-collector lane — Screaming Eagle, Harlan Estate, Shafer Hillside Select, and Peter Michael are all here, which tells you exactly who's at these tables. France holds its own with Chateau Margaux, Chateau Latour, and Petrus representing the Bordeaux royalty, while Italy punches in with Sassicaia and Gaja Barbaresco giving the list some well-earned Old World credibility. The Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence — held since 2016 — reflects a program that's consistently maintained depth across all three of those regions. The gap is everywhere else: if you're hunting Iberian producers, Rhône depth, or anything from the Southern Hemisphere, you're mostly out of luck.

Twenty to thirty-five options by the glass is genuinely impressive for a steakhouse at this level, giving you real flexibility before you commit to a bottle. The range skews predictably toward Cabernet and Chardonnay, which is the right call when half the table is ordering bone-in filet. We'd love to see more rotating pours that spotlight the deeper cuts of the bottle list, but what's here gets the job done.