"Our focus this year was to ensure we found a solution to remain in the West Village albeit our expiring lease," said Rakesh Chandiramani, co-founder of Vin Sur Vingt
Wine Bars. "We were fortunate enough to find an opportunity with The Jackson Group and look forward to another ten years as the neighborhood's
wine bar."
From the name alone, it's easy to work out where this bar review is heading --
wine bars are the ultimate drinking experience for the encroaching winter nights.
IN recent years the number of
wine bars in the UK has increased tremendously and unfortunately the number of traditional pubs has declined Real ale pubs however continue to be very popular and the number of local breweries is also on the increase across the country, each coming with very unusual and unique names for their brews.
wine bars always have been about experimentation and adventure.
CAV Bar, San Francisco: CAV, probably at the top of any list of
wine bars, is owned and operated by Pamela Busch, a native New Yorker who brought New York urban swank to the Bay Area.
Birmingham Cathedral hired ex-John Lewis stores executive Mark Hope-Urwin to radically change its image by opening city
wine bars to attract new worshippers.
Cathedral
wine bars should be seen as a potential commercial operation with profits going into the upkeep and of the building and paying for evangelistic work.
BIRMINGHAM'S St Philip's Cathedral is reported to be considering opening city centre
wine bars in a bid to attract more people to mass.
Several readers added to our growing list of
wine bars. Mary McCormick of Rocklin, California, raves about Eureka and Vine (6040 Stanford Ranch Rd.; www.eurekaand vine.net or 916/789-8700).
REMEMBER
wine bars? Back in the '80s, they were the venue of choice for what was supposed to be the more sophisticated drinker.
A
wine bar like Sportsman's does have competitive advantages over the stand-alone
wine bars that dot the Phoenix market.
Usually
wine bars have an air of luxury that sometimes might feel too unaccommodating, but not this place.