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| - I have to rate this based on what it is, and as a wine bar with tapas, it was ok. Mu husband and I were meeting up with a group for dinner and they chose this place. Thinking we were going to a late dinner, I hadn't eaten since brunch. I didn't do my research to discover they had tapas and small plates, not full-fledged meals. But they weren't really small plate price. I got a pizza for $12 with peaches, prosciutto, goat cheese, and honey. It was DELICIOUS, but I was left wanting...more toppings on the pizza (it looked bare), and more food in general. It would have been a great size for lunch, but as a dinner meal, it wasn't quite what I was hoping for. And the prices were not low enough to make me feel good about ordering more than one plate...which is usually the allure of small plates/tapas.
The wine flights we had were decent, though probably a bit overpriced. One of the rieslings from the flight my husband had is $9.99/bottle at the grocery store, but they were charging $7 for a glass and $26 for a bottle. My husband enjoyed the pulled pork sliders he ordered for $10. There were 3 sliders and a pile of chips, so he wasn't left quite as hungry as I was, which was good.
The atmosphere is pretty nice, but the service was darn near beyond slow. There were only a handful of people in the place and what seemed like quite a few servers, so I'm not sure why everything took so long. We joked that there had to be someone in the back stomping grapes for our wine. A couple friends who arrived after some of us had already eaten, ordered food, and then were about to leave and go to a fast-food joint to hold themselves over til D'Vine served them their food. Luckily it was good because the female half of that couple is pregnant and she was getting cranky, haha.
I wouldn't be opposed to going back. At least I'd know what I was getting myself into. I won't come starving, that's for sure. But for quiet, relaxed conversation over good snacks, I'd return. I should also note, that though the service wasn't the quickest, everyone that worked there was very nice, and for me at least, pleasant, slow servers are better than nasty, fast ones.
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