Logan's Roadhouse – Bloomington

The wine list at Logan's arrives laminated, probably sticky, and feels like it was assembled by someone who last thought about wine in 2009. It's all familiar labels doing familiar things — no surprises, no ambition, no particular reason to be excited. This is a list that exists because a steakhouse has to have wine, full stop.

Twenty to forty options, almost exclusively California and Washington, and the producers read like a grocery store shelf: Kendall-Jackson, Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi, Chateau Ste. Michelle. There's nothing wrong with these wines in isolation — Chateau Ste. Michelle actually makes genuinely solid Riesling — but the list as a whole shows zero curatorial effort. No interesting Rhône varietals to match the smoky steaks, no value-play Malbec, no attempt to stretch beyond the safe zone. It's a list built for the path of least resistance.

Eight to fourteen pours by the glass at $8–$15, which sounds reasonable until you clock that you're paying restaurant markup on bottles that retail for $10–$14 at Total Wine. The glass selection mirrors the bottle list — familiar names, no rotation, no seasonal thinking. If you're here, just pick the Chateau Ste. Michelle Riesling and call it done.