Honoring a Western hotel restaurant for excellence and innovation with its food and drink menus, its service, and its ambience.
Winner & Finalists
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A.R. Valentien at The Lodge at Torrey Pines, La Jolla, CA
The wood-beamed La Jolla, California, dining room pays homage to Craftsman architects Henry and Charles Greene, with stained-glass lanterns and handcrafted wood-framed windows. We love how A.R. Valentien integrates indoors and outdoors. “The terrace has a sweeping view of the famed Torrey Pines golf course out to the Pacific and is so soothing,” says deputy editor Peter Fish. And, as one judge noted, “Valentien was locavore before we had a word for it,” with knockout dishes such as duck breast and confit leg, and black trumpet mushroom–crusted sea bass.
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