"Il Premio, in Old Fourth Ward's Forth Hotel, is the kind of restaurant that works in any scenario. Take your out-of-town bosses to impress them with fantastic steaks like the perfectly marbled Japanese wagyu. Or for a spontaneous date night, walk into Il Premio's grand piano lounge, where you can sip olive oil-accented dirty martinis while canoodling on a velvet couch. And you can officially reschedule that catch-up with friends over plates of pastas like the bucatini all'amatriciana with salty pork cheek. Plus, the wine list is 86% Italian (we did the math), so this is the place to order a bottle and settle in for an unrushed dinner." - nina reeder, jacinta howard, juli horsford