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| - I must first say that I've been in the wine business & restaurant industry for 17 plus years, in a fine dining enviroment And, I sell wine during the day. So when I saw a so called up scale wine bar hiring I thought I would apply. So I submitted my resume and they were interested and responded with an interview request. I made an appointment for the interview.
Before I interview at a place I always dine their first on the downlow to check out the food and wine menu and check out the ambience. Thank God I did, food was ok, but lets talk about the wine list. First this is a wine bar and when I go into a wine bar I like to experience new wines. Not name brands like Rombauer Chard, Sanoma Cutter, Silver Oak Cab and to many more to be listed. This bothered me because, any wine driven restaurant I've worked in that claimed to be a wine bar was there to educate and introduce new wines. I saw that they had flights so I went into the interview with an open mind.
When I went into the intervew two days later, I was directed to a table where the manager was sitting and eating. On the table there were three name brand bottles of wine. Funny thing was it was Rombauer Chard, Sanoma Cutter and Silver Oak Cab. When I sat down told the manager that I liked these named brands but there are better wines at a better price. I couldn't believe what he told me!! He told me that he puts name brands on purpose so they would sell, I was shocked. Here is a manager who claims that he wants to educate his guests about wine but refuses to put similar wines other than the name brands on his list so that his staff may educate his guests to a new experience at a cheaper price!!
The funniest or should I say the most disturbing thing the manager said during the interview was about his wine education program, he spoke fifteen to twenty minutes about how he wanted to help other restaurants train their staff about wine education. It seems that he was more interested in that than his own staff. When I dine I questioned the service staff about wine and they were clueless. Good Job educating your own staff. Better luck selling your wine education program to other restaurants.
So if you want to get ripped off and have ok food and WAY over priced wine please go, thats exactly what you'll get. You've been warned. They are trouble. Go to one of Postino's Wine Bars instead or Kazimirz a real WIne Bar ! ! ! !
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