Grapes Wine Bar

The name tells you exactly what you're getting, and Grapes delivers without apology — a focused, Franco-Californian list in a room that feels like someone actually thought about the wine before printing the menu. It's intimate, a little dressed up, and the kind of place where the list doesn't try to be everything to everyone. That restraint is a feature, not a bug.

The list runs 150-250 bottles and leans hard into California and France, which happens to be exactly where Wine Spectator has recognized them since 2015. On the California side you've got Stag's Leap and Jordan anchoring the Napa Cab section — reliable heavy hitters — while Rombauer and Kendall-Jackson Grand Reserve cover Sonoma Chardonnay in crowd-pleasing fashion. France shows up through Louis Jadot and Joseph Drouhin in Burgundy, plus Rhône Valley selections and Bordeaux-style blends that give the list a bit more texture. The gaps are real — no serious Italian program, Spain is mostly absent — but within its lane the list is well-curated and doesn't embarrass itself.

Twenty to thirty-five by-the-glass options is genuinely generous for a room this size, and the $10-$18 price band keeps things accessible without feeling like a dive bar compromise. There's no indication the glass menu rotates aggressively, which is fine — consistency matters — but a more adventurous rotating pour or two would push this into more interesting territory.