Tonya has been named the West Coast Lead Reviewer for Wine Enthusiast!
An industry change-maker and compassionate role model, Tonya Pitts is known globally as a multi-talented wine professional who catapults wineries, winemakers, and brands into the mainstream. From 2008 – 2025, Tonya’s wine programs for One Market Restaurant received the Best of Award of Excellence from Wine Spectator. In 2022, she was named the Wine Enthusiast Wine Star Awards Sommelier of the Year.
Equally important, she is a leader who champions diversity and inclusion in the hospitality, food and beverage industries. In 2017, she was named to the Top 40 African American Tastemakers (Under/Over) 40 list.
No doubt, tasting, recommending and selling many of the world’s finest and rarest wines has been part of Dan’s daily routine. That said, one of Dan’s greatest skills, in the opinion of many of his customers, is his ability to evaluate and identify wines that, in Dan’s words, “over-deliver for their price.” Recommending these types of wines in Dan’s entertaining and skillful prose is one of the pillars of his substack ” Eat Drink Cook”
