(Hotel restaurants are not eligible in this category)
Wine Selection
COST PLUS WORLD MARKET
3840 S. Maryland Parkway 2151 N. Rainbow Blvd.
We didn't think about retail places in this category, but didn't expressly forbid them either. These eclectic stores, where the inventory changes frequently, stomped the grapes out of nine restaurants, two other retailers (Trader Joe's and Costco) and one winery (Pahrump Valley Vineyard, the only one around these parts). O'Rosie's, a Northern California-flavored restaurant where wine bottles surround the entrance, finished second.
Our Pick:
ANDRE'S FRENCH RESTAURANT
401 S. Sixth St.
Next year may be a horse race with the arrival of the Rio's Napa Restaurant and its $5 million wine cellar. But these picks look back a year, and when money is no object there has been no serious competition for this downtown institution. It houses a good 10,000 bottles in its cellar and includes 800 names on its wine list. You'd be thirsty by the time you made a choice.