The Wife and I ate at Junior’s Wine Bar in Federal Hill a few months back and the experience was mediocre and fell short of the snoty-tooty blogworthy standards of this Blog. Nothing was bad, but nothing blew me out of my chair and into my Merlot. Things changed last week when I got a [...]
Right on the main drag as you come into Rehoboth Beach sits a little gem of a wine bar. The Wife and I stopped in there Thursday night and were both pleasantly surprised. The three staffers that were on hand were all completely knowledgeable about wine. Being Dogfish Head transplants, they also knew their beers. [...]
I’m in San Francisco this week working with my employer and attending nerd fest 2008 on Wednesday and Thursday. Before all this I went to a wedding, drank too much, and eventually ended up back at Dell’Uva, one of my favorite wine bars in the city. Sitting just off the main drag in North Beach, [...]
5a. You’re not a wine bar. You’re a restaurant with wines by the glass and you tagged “Wine Bar” on the end of your name. This is forgivable if only because I understand how hard it is to run a successful restaurant. If you stick some marketing mumbo-jumbo in your name to get butts in [...]
We were lucky enough to get a chance to eat at Carpaccio’s Tuscan Grill this week as part of their Friends and Family hookup. They have a solid wine list featuring several sub-$40 Italian wines. My party started with a Dolcetto, the 2004 Torremorro, and then followed that with a Sangiovese from Umbria. I recommend [...]
Dropped into Charlotte’s in Federal Hill on Wednesday night to see a friend of a friend play some tunes. Turns out that, despite all appearances to the contrary, Charlotte’s runs wine tastings every Wednesday starting around 7pm. You get 5 wines for $5.25, each selected around a certain theme for the flight. The bartender is [...]
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