I'm on a 3-star rant today! :)
I just had to update my review which I hate to do but I had such a horrid experience the last 2 times we were here that I need to balance out my prior review.
Are they under new management? New chef? New owner altogether? Something has shifted in the atmosphere and it is obvious. The employees are not as knowledgeable about wine as they once were and the food seems to be lacking in quality slightly. Although, I do still LOVE their flatbreads.
The young waitress that was serving us last week, literally couldn't recommend a good glass of wine. She ended up suggesting their house wine. She just didn't know anything about it and said we should ask the other waiter because he is the "wine guy." That's great and I'm happy for him but he isn't my waiter and why do you work here...a wine bar...if you don't know a lick about wine? Not good. She even went back to ask the "manager" for a wine suggestion based on what we told her we liked and then she brought out a taste of something that was absolutely opposite of what we described.
The other thing that brought my rating down is that they permit smoking on their patio. When it is a small patio there is really no difference than if you were eating inside beside someone blowing smoke in your face. We tried to move to another table but yet another smoker sat down beside us. 2 people at our table are highly affected by the smoke (headache, itchy eyes, etc) but we couldn't get away from it and the waitress just made light of it. She went on to tell us how she smokes but how she puts the window down in her car because she doesn't even want her own smoke in her face.......crickets......
Needless to say, we got out of there quickly. It was such a bad experience. I know they usually have live music on the weekends but that wasn't the case and the overall feel of the place just seemed to drop down in terms of quality. I hope they make some adjustments soon.