Selanne Steak Tavern

The list lands like a greatest hits album of California Cabernet and French first growths — heavy, confident, and not particularly shy about it. This is a room where Screaming Eagle and Château Latour share real estate with Jordan and Silver Oak, and nobody bats an eye. It's a steakhouse wine list that takes itself seriously, and for the most part, it earns that.

Four to six hundred selections anchored firmly in California and France, which tracks perfectly for a Laguna Beach steakhouse crowd that knows what they want and isn't here to experiment. The California Cab bench is genuinely deep — Harlan, Caymus, Opus One, Dominus, Shafer Hillside Select, Paul Hobbs, Stag's Leap — this is a collector's playground if your budget allows. France gets its due with Margaux and Latour represented alongside Kistler holding down the white Burgundy-adjacent flank. The gaps show mostly outside those two regions; if you're hunting Nebbiolo or Grüner, you're probably in the wrong zip code.

Twenty to thirty-five pours by the glass is a strong showing, and for a place with this kind of bottle depth, it suggests they're actually trying to make the list accessible rather than just decorative. The Tuesday half-price wine night is a legitimate incentive to plan around — getting into this tier of list at half the bottle price is the kind of deal worth rearranging your week for. We'd love to see more rotation and transparency on what's pouring by the glass on any given night.