16 Hole-in-One Wine Restaurants May 11, 2017 Tee up a top dining experience at these golf destinations As summer approaches, recreational golf season is in full swing. The perfect excuse to take a vacation or just unwind on the weekend, a day spent on the course is tough to improve—except with the promise of great food and wine afterward. These 16 restaurants are in close proximity to world-class golfing, and their first-rate menus and award-winning wine programs will ensure you finish the day a winner. To check out more wine and food destinations, see Wine Spectator’s more than 3,500 Restaurant Award–winning picks, including the 85 Grand Award recipients worldwide that hold our highest honor. Do you have a favorite you’d like to see on this list? Send your recommendations to restaurantawards@mshanken.com. We want to hear from you! Wright’s At The Biltmore Arizona Biltmore, A Waldorf Astoria Resort, 2400 E. Missouri Ave., Phoenix, Ariz. Telephone (602) 954-2507 Website www.arizonabiltmore.com Open Dinner, daily Award of Excellence
At the Arizona Biltmore, golf and dine to your heart’s content: The resort boasts two 18-hole courses, as well as a classic restaurant, Wright’s at the Biltmore. Chef Brian Peterson’s menu presents seared foie gras with huckleberry buckle and foie gras ice cream, beet-cured salmon with chicharrón and grapefruit, buffalo rib eye with buffalo chorizo and smoked veal T-bone with blue corn cakes. The 350-selection, moderately priced wine list, managed by wine director Dolan Olson, is especially strong in California and Bordeaux, and earned its first Award of Excellence in 2015.