Bottiglia Cucina & Enoteca

Bottiglia Cucina & Enoteca is a rustic Italian restaurant inside Green Valley Ranch Resort in Henderson, roughly fifteen miles southeast of the Strip, which makes it a locals' restaurant far more than a tourist one. The kitchen is Tuscan-inspired and seasonal — antipasti, salads, whole fresh fish, house-made pappardelle bolognese — and the enoteca half of the name is meant literally, with a wine list running through Napa, Sonoma, Italy and France. It serves dinner nightly and brunch at the weekend, and locally it has settled into the role of Henderson's default Italian restaurant for an occasion.

What lifts it into this directory is a defined Zero Proof Libations menu, priced between $13 and $15, which appears across the dinner, lunch and brunch menus rather than only at dinner. Four drinks make up the current list: the Fiori Nero (Fever-Tree Sicilian lemon soda, hibiscus syrup and mint), the Amore Giardino (Fever-Tree cucumber tonic, mint, basil, lemon and orgeat), the Whata Peach (white peach puree, rosemary and lemon-lime soda), and the Grazi 75, which is built on Almave non-alcoholic blue agave spirit with agave nectar, lemon and seltzer. Earlier seasonal builds — Pomelo Paradise, Lavender Lemonade and a non-alcoholic Milano Mule — have rotated off, which is itself a useful signal: a rotating zero-proof list is a maintained one. Michelob Ultra Zero sits on the beer list for anyone who would rather have a beer with dinner. The restaurant leans into the category around Dry January, and frames the drinks in its own marketing as a way to keep the sophistication of the meal intact for a guest who is skipping alcohol, which is a fair description of what the list actually delivers at an upscale table in Henderson.