Westport Restaurant Honored With 2025 Wine Spectator Award

WESTPORT, CT — A Westport restaurant has been recognized by Wine Spectator magazine for having an outstanding wine list.

Gabriele's Italian Steakhouse, at 27 Powers Court in Westport, was recently announced as a winner in the 2025 Restaurant Awards.

More information about Gabriele's can be viewed on its website.

"A wine list is a restaurant’s identity in print, and this year’s Wine Spectator Restaurant Award winners reflect both deep knowledge and a passion for discovery," said Marvin R. Shanken, the magazine's editor and publisher, in a statement. "I proudly present the 3,811 restaurants worldwide that earned a Restaurant Award this year—we raise a glass to all our winners."

Launched in 1981, the Restaurant Awards represent the world’s only program focused exclusively on restaurant wine service.

They are assigned on three levels: the Award of Excellence, the Best of Award of Excellence and the Grand Award, with 2,001; 1,411; and 93 winners this year in each respective category.

Also featured in Wine Spectator’s special Restaurant Awards issue: “What’s Old is New Again,” as restaurants place an emphasis on revisiting and uplifting tried and true classics.

The Restaurant Awards issue, which features a tribute to late Grand Award-winning American chef and restaurateur Charlie Trotter, becomes available to readers July 15.

See the full list of winners online here.

See the Connecticut restaurant winners here.

— Chris Dehnel, Patch Staff, contirbuted to this report.