Chandlers Prime Steaks + Fine Seafood
Boise's best excuse to order Cabernet
Downtown Boise · Boise · Steakhouse · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed April 7, 2026
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First Impression
The wine list lands on your table with the confidence of a place that has held a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence since 2013 and knows it. Four hundred to six hundred bottles deep, with California and Washington headlining alongside serious French and Italian representation — this isn't the list some steakhouse chain prints once and forgets. Someone here actually cares.
Selection Deep Dive
California is the obvious anchor: Caymus Special Selection, Stag's Leap CASK 23, Opus One, Far Niente, Nickel & Nickel single-vineyard Cabs — the hits are all here and the depth behind them is real. Washington gets its proper due with Quilceda Creek and Leonetti Cellar, two bottles that routinely disappear fast at restaurants that stock them. France shows up with Chateau Margaux and Chateau Lynch-Bages for the splurge crowd, while Italy brings Barolo credibility via Gaja and Giacomo Conterno. The main gap is the Southern Hemisphere and anything remotely natural or skin-contact — this is a list built for the person who knows exactly what they want and wants the best version of it.
By the Glass
With 20 to 35 pours available by the glass, Chandlers punches well above the steakhouse average here — most places in this category give you eight options and call it a day. The rotation leans predictably toward big Cabs and buttery Chardonnays, which honestly is exactly what you're here for. Monday's half-price wine night means those by-the-glass pours become genuinely great value, and that changes the calculus considerably.
L'Ecole No. 41 (Washington) — Not listed
In a list stacked with four-figure trophies, L'Ecole No. 41 is where you find serious Washington Cabernet or Merlot without the Leonetti or Quilceda Creek price tag. It's a producer that earns its place on any list and consistently overdelivers for what it costs relative to its neighbors here.
Chateau Lynch-Bages
Everyone eyes the Margaux and immediately moves on when they see the price. Lynch-Bages is the Pauillac that serious Bordeaux drinkers know delivers the goods — dark fruit, cedar, structure — at a fraction of what the first growths command. On a list this California-forward, it's the bottle most tables walk right past.
Rombauer Chardonnay 2022
At $135, you're paying a significant premium for one of the most aggressively oaked, butter-forward Chardonnays in existence — a wine that retails around $35-40. Rombauer has its fans, but at this markup you can do considerably better on this list.
Stag's Leap Wine Cellars CASK 23 + Prime ribeye
CASK 23 is built for exactly this moment — a structured, age-worthy Napa Cab with the weight and dark fruit to stand up to a well-marbled prime ribeye without either one bullying the other. This is the pairing Chandlers was designed around.
Monday — Half-price wine night every Monday — applies to bottles and is the best reason to make Chandlers a weeknight tradition rather than a special-occasion-only destination.
🔥 The Bottom Line
Chandlers is the real deal for Boise — a legitimately deep list, a credentialed sommelier team, and a Monday half-price program that makes the steep markups much easier to forgive. If you're drinking wine in Idaho, this is where you go.
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