Somni

Walking into Somni feels like being let in on a secret — tucked off Nemo Street in a garden setting that has no business existing in West Hollywood. The wine list arrives and immediately signals that someone here is serious: Spain, California, and France handled with the kind of depth you only see when a kitchen and a cellar are working in lockstep. This is a tasting menu experience first and foremost, and the wine program is built to match that ambition.

Eight hundred to twelve hundred selections anchored by some of the most exciting Spanish producers anywhere in the U.S. — Vega Sicilia Único, Álvaro Palacios' L'Ermita, Pingus from Ribera del Duero, and Raúl Pérez's Bierzo work all show up here, which is genuinely rare outside of a Spanish specialty house. California gets equal respect: Ridge Monte Bello, Sine Qua Non, Aubert Chardonnay, and Kosta Browne Pinot round out a West Coast section that reads like a greatest-hits compilation rather than a name-drop exercise. France isn't an afterthought either — Domaine de la Romanée-Conti makes an appearance, which tells you everything about how far up the cellar ladder this list reaches. The Spain-California dual focus mirrors Chef Aitor Zabala's culinary identity perfectly, and that coherence is what separates a great list from a long one.

There's no traditional by-the-glass program here — you're in tasting menu territory, which means wine arrives as a curated pairing sequence of roughly eight to twelve pours matched course by course. That's either a feature or a dealbreaker depending on your philosophy, but given the caliber of what's in the cellar, surrendering control here is probably the right move. If you'd rather steer your own ship, bottle selections from the full list are available, but know that you're committing to a deep evening either way.