The Kitchen

Walking into The Kitchen — fireplace going, bar humming, steps from the Town Square — you half-expect a list of Kendall-Jackson Chardonnay and overpriced Napa Cab. Instead, you get Sicily, Austria, and the Russian River Valley at prices that genuinely surprise you. This place is trying harder than its surroundings suggest.

The list spans California, Oregon, France, New Zealand, and Austria, which is already more interesting than most ski-town wine programs. The by-the-glass spread includes an Etna Bianco from Murgo that has zero business being on a menu in Jackson Hole — in the best possible way. There's a Riesling from Seppeltsfield and an Entre Deux Mers Sauvignon Blanc that signal someone on the team actually cares about regional diversity. The gaps are real — no serious deep-cellar offerings we can point to — but for 80-plus bottles at these markups, the list punches well above its weight class.

With 15-25 glass pours on offer, The Kitchen is genuinely generous by the glass — rare in a mountain resort town where pouring cheap margins is the default play. The glass program leans into value bottles that drink well in the moment, and the fact that they're pouring the Murgo Etna Bianco by the glass tells you everything you need to know about who's curating this list.