La Boucherie

The wine list at La Boucherie lands on the table with the confidence of a place that knows exactly what it's doing — this is not an afterthought program bolted onto a steakhouse. Between the dim lighting and the leather booths, you've got 400-plus bottles staring back at you, anchored by serious French and California heavy hitters. Wine Spectator has handed them a Best of Award of Excellence every year since 2018, and the list earns it.

France runs the show here, and it runs it well — Burgundy and Bordeaux are the backbone, with names like Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Leroy Gevrey-Chambertin, Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet, Château Pétrus, and Château Mouton Rothschild anchoring the cellar at the serious end. California holds its own with Screaming Eagle, Opus One, and Cayuse Vineyards Syrah from Washington adding a Pacific Northwest wildcard. Champagne is handled properly too — Krug Grande Cuvée and Salon Blanc de Blancs are on the list, which tells you something about the seriousness of whoever built this. The one gap: if you're hunting for natural wine or anything outside the classic canon, you're at the wrong place.

With 20-35 by-the-glass options, La Boucherie isn't skimping on pours — this is a range that actually lets you drink well without committing to a bottle. We'd expect the program to rotate with the seasons given the overall ambition of the list. Just don't expect anything boundary-pushing here; the glass program skews classic and crowd-pleasing, which, frankly, is exactly what you want when you're nursing a ribeye.