Local restaurants honored

Wine Spectator, the world’s leading authority on wine, has unveiled the winners of the 2024 Restaurant Awards, which honor the world’s best restaurants for wine. Launched in 1981, the Restaurant Awards are judged on three levels: the Award of Excellence, the Best of Award of Excellence and the Grand Award.  Of local interest, 21 area restaurants were honored in two different levels. Wine Spectator’s criterion for the “Award of Excellence” goes to restaurants that generally have a wine list of at least 100 vintages. The “Best of Award of Excellence” is given to restaurants that take their love of wine a step further, through staff training to ensure guests have knowledgeable assistance, hosting events such as wine dinners, or carefully designed presentation and more in-depth sourcing. These lists offer approximately 350 or more carefully curated selections. The Best of Award of Excellence award was given to Prime + Proper, Detroit; The Capital Grille, Troy; and Vertical Detroit, Detroit. The Award of Excellence was presented to Alchemi, Royal Oak; Brentwood Grille, Novi; Coeur, Ferndale; Eddie Merlot’s, Bloomfield Hills; Eddie V’s Prime Seafood, Troy; Five Steakhouse, Plymouth; Fogo de Chão, Troy; Gaucho Brazilian SteakHouse, Northville; Highlands, Detroit; Joe Muer Seafood, Bloomfield Hills, Madam, Birmingham; Morton’s, The Steakhouse, Troy; Seasons 52, Troy; Streetside Seafood, Birmingham; Sullivan’s Steakhouse, Detroit; Tallulah Wine Bar & Bistro, Birmingham; The Apparatus Room, Detroit; and The Wine Grotto, Plymouth.