Bristol Seafood Grill

The list at Bristol reads like a greatest hits album — you know every song, none of them surprise you, but the room sounds good and you're not mad about it. It's a seafood-forward crowd-pleaser built to move bottles of Santa Margherita and Silver Oak without much friction. That's not a compliment exactly, but it's not nothing either.

Eighty-plus bottles covering California, Oregon, Washington, Italy, France, and New Zealand — all the right ZIP codes, just the safe addresses within them. California dominates, with recognizable names like Silver Oak, Black Stallion, and Estancia doing the heavy lifting on the red side. The white game leans hard into Pinot Grigio and Sauvignon Blanc, which makes sense for a seafood house but leaves zero room for anything adventurous — no Albariño, no Grüner, no skin-contact anything. France shows up mostly in the Champagne flutes via Moët and Veuve, which tells you all you need to know about how they think about European wine.

Eighteen-plus options by the glass is genuinely solid for a restaurant at this tier, and the $8–$18.50 range keeps things accessible. The problem is the list reads like a flight attendant's cart — Kim Crawford, Ecco Domani, La Marca — reliable, inoffensive, and completely without personality. There's no rotation or discovery happening here; what you see is what you get, every night.