Soby’s wins prestigious Wine Spectator Grand Award, a first for SC restaurants
South Carolina’s first Wine Spectator Grand Award has been received and the honor has been given to Greenville’s Soby’s New South Cuisine.
The grand award is the highest distinction that can be bestowed to a restaurant by the publication. It has been a goal for Carl Sobocinski, founder of Table 301 Hospitality, since he opened the Main Street restaurant in 1997.
The award has been given to 97 restaurants since it was started in 1981.
Normally, the restaurants selected have thousands of wines available with a range of vintages, large-format options, presentation and symmetry with its cuisine options. Soby’s falls right in line with the expectation, offering 4,000 options and over 17,000 bottles of wine in its underground wine cellar.
The restaurant’s colossal portfolio focuses on organic, natural wines. In addition to the cellar, the hospitality group retains a temperature-controlled offsite storage space that maintains overflow supply but also allows wines to age.
Sobocinski celebrated the award June 20 by sabering a bottle of champagne at the restaurant. He was “still pinching himself” after the achievement, noting that with the glory comes the responsibility of always being “on point.”
“It is wonderful for Soby’s, it’s wonderful for our team and the people that worked so hard over the years,” Sobocinski said. “But this is for Greenville. This is for South Carolina.”
Along with Soby’s, the award was also bestowed this year on Selby’s in Atherton, California and Le Bon Georges in Paris.
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