Dave & Buster's Wichita

The wine list at Dave & Buster's Wichita exists the same way a salad exists at a steakhouse — technically present, clearly not the point. Fourteen labels spread across a nutritional PDF tells you everything you need to know about how seriously this program is taken. It's wine as an afterthought, a box checked between the loaded nachos and the Skee-Ball lanes.

The list runs almost exclusively on recognizable grocery-store names: Josh Cellars Cabernet appears twice (which feels less like curation and more like a copy-paste error), Kendall Jackson Chardonnay, and Freakshow's Cabernet and Chardonnay round out the domestic heavy hitters. There's a nod to sparkling with Coppola Prosecco and something listed simply as 'Cava Sparkling Wine' — no producer, no region detail, no reason to trust it. The 'Wine' and 'Sangria Sips' categories lean hard into the fruity and festive, with a Strawberry Sangria and Mango Beach Bellini that suggest the list is aimed squarely at people who don't really want wine. There are no old-world bottles, no indie producers, no surprises — just the same labels you'd find in any suburban Total Wine at roughly zero of the discovery.

No by-the-glass counts or pricing were available from the sourced data, so we can't tell you how much you're paying per pour — which is itself a minor red flag. What's on the list skews heavily toward crowd-pleasing house pours, and given the venue context, we'd expect standard glass service rather than anything varietal-matched or thoughtfully sized.