7 Somerset County Restaurants Earn 2025 Wine Spectator Awards

SOMERSET COUNTY, NJ — Somerset County's restaurant scene is getting some national love thanks to Wine Spectator.

Wine Spectator recently announced the winners of the 2025 Restaurant Awards. These awards honor the world’s best restaurants for wine.

This year’s awards program recognizes 3,811 dining destinations from all 50 states in the U.S. and more than 80 countries internationally.

"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," Marvin R. Shanken, Editor and Publisher of Wine Spectator, said. "I proudly present the 3,811 restaurants worldwide that earned a Restaurant Award this year—we raise a glass to all our winners."

One Bedminster restaurant took home the list's highest honor - the Grand Award, which goes to restaurants with "world-class wine programs" that typically feature at least 1,000 selections. Only 93 restaurants worldwide have received the accolade, including two in New Jersey: The Pluckemin Inn (Bedminster) and Restaurant Latour (Hamburg).

The Pluckemin Inn(359 Route 206 South in Bedminster) has made the list since 2011.

Ninety Acres(400 Natirar Drive in Peapack), Uproot(9 Mount Bethel Road in Warren), and Water & Wine Ristorante-Taverna (141 Stirling Road in Watchung) each earned the Best of Award of Excellence.

And three Somerset County establishments earned the Award of Excellence: Fogo de Chao (400 Commons Way in Bridgewater), Red Horse by David Burke(Bernards Inn, 2 Minebrook Road in Bernardsville), and Stone House at Stirling Ridge (50 Stirling Road in Warren).

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.

— With reporting by Max Bennett