Marisi

The wine list at Marisi reads like a love letter to the Italian peninsula — Piedmont, Tuscany, Sicily, Veneto, all accounted for, with a few California ringers for the locals who haven't crossed over yet. It's polished and focused, the kind of list that signals the kitchen takes itself seriously. You won't find any surprises, but you also won't feel lost.

The anchor producers here are the real deal — Gaja Barbaresco, Ornellaia Bolgheri, Antinori Tignanello — these aren't names a restaurant throws on a list by accident. Dig a little deeper and you find genuinely interesting picks like Occhipinti's SP68 Bianco and COS Frappato, two Sicilian naturalists that feel out of place at a white-tablecloth spot in the best possible way. The Terlano 'Winkl' Sauvignon from Alto Adige shows someone on the buying side knows their northern Italian geography beyond just Pinot Grigio. The list does skew heavily toward red-leaning Italy, so if you're hunting for white Burgundy or grower Champagne, you'll come up short.

Estimates put the glass program somewhere between 10 and 16 options, which is a respectable spread for a restaurant of this size. The pricing runs $14–$22 a glass, which tracks with the bottle markups — not highway robbery, but you're paying for the room. We'd love to see more rotation here; the program feels like it was set once and left to run.