OHMS Café & Bar

OHMS reads like a restaurant that put serious thought into its food and then handed the wine list to whoever ordered the napkins. What you get is a 30-50 bottle rundown of names you've seen at every airport TGI Fridays — Decoy, Meiomi, The Prisoner — dressed up in fine dining prices. It's not offensive, but for a chef-driven New American spot, it's a missed opportunity.

The list leans hard on California with a nod toward the Pacific Northwest and France, which is a reasonable enough skeleton — except the selections never venture past the most mass-market bottles in those regions. There's no small producer, no interesting Willamette Valley Pinot, no grower Champagne, nothing that suggests anyone is paying attention. France shows up but probably as a token Bordeaux or Burgundy name rather than anything that digs into what makes those regions worth caring about. For a restaurant cooking duck confit and house-made pasta, the wine list feels like it was last curated sometime around 2016 and nobody's touched it since.

Eight to fourteen pours by the glass sounds generous until you realize they're almost certainly pulling from the same crowd-pleaser roster — Kendall-Jackson Chardonnay, Meiomi Pinot, maybe a Cabernet from Decoy. At $10–$16 a glass, you're paying restaurant rates for wines that retail for $13–$22 a bottle, which stings. No evidence of any rotation program or seasonal glass list to speak of.