Twisted Tomato

Twisted Tomato earned the Wine Spectator 2025 Award of Excellence, and wine director Jeremiah Butler backs it up with approximately 100 selections and 850 bottles in inventory. The program leans hard into California, with "prize-winning bottles rarely seen outside Atlanta" alongside a broader international selection. The by-the-glass options include Bell'Agio Chianti ($11), Bread & Butter Cabernet and Merlot ($10), William Hill Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc ($11), and Tintero Moscato d'Asti ($12), but the dinner wine list goes significantly deeper. The $25 corkage fee is a smart option for guests bringing their own.

Twisted Tomato combines Italian cuisine, premium steaks, and Neapolitan-style wood-fired pizza under an iconic Italian-imported blue glass chandelier. The breadth of the menu means the wine list has to work with everything from margherita pizza to a tomahawk steak, and it does. Craft cocktails, small-batch bourbons, rare tequilas, and Scotch round out a beverage program that takes every category seriously. Open daily except Wednesday.

A Wine Spectator 2025 Award of Excellence with 100 selections and 850 bottles in a mountain town restaurant. Wine director Jeremiah Butler has built a California-strong program with rare bottles that typically don't make it outside metro Atlanta. The depth of inventory for a restaurant this size is the story.