Best of St. Louis 2006
Food & Drink
Best Wine List in a Restaurant
Riddles Penultimate Caf� & Wine Bar
There are other restaurants that make impressive showings with their wine lists —Tony's, Eleven Eleven Mississippi, Sidney Street Caf—but none with the underdog panache of Riddles. Because a place like Riddles just isn't supposed to have such a mind-blowing wine list. It's a juke joint, a place where live blues and bluegrass come at you from a cramped storefront window, a place where a hodgepodge of college kids and over-the-hill hippies peacefully co-exist. It's a pile of bricks in the Loop (a stretch not exactly known as the pinnacle of St. Louis haute cuisine). And yet—thunk—here's the massive book o' wines, riddled (did we say that?) with bargains. Maybe it's time we retired this category.
Previous Winners
- 2012 Best Wine List in a Restaurant - Mike Shannon's Steaks and Seafood
- 2008 Best Wine List in a Restaurant - Starrs
- 2007 Best Wine List in a Restaurant - Acero
- 2005 Best Wine List in a Restaurant - Eleven Eleven Mississippi
- 2003 Best Wine List in a Restaurant - King Louie's
- 2003 Best Wine List in a Restaurant - King Louie's
