Plaza Bistro

We walked in ready to give Plaza Bistro a fair shake, but the wine situation here is a black hole. No visible list, no staff recommendations, no indication anyone's thought about wine beyond checking a box. This is the kind of place where the wine program exists only because alcohol license permits require it.

What little we could confirm reads like a distributor's closeout bin meets a grocery store clearance rack. The usual suspects dominate — mass-market Chardonnays, industrial Cabernets, maybe a Chianti that's been on the list since 2018. No regional depth, no interesting producers, no evidence of curation. If there's a sommelier here, they're either invisible or imaginary. The list feels like it was assembled in fifteen minutes from whatever the rep brought by that week.

Glass pours appear to be an afterthought at best. We're guessing three to four options, likely pulled from whatever bottles are already open and sitting on a speed rail. No rotation, no seasonal updates, no consideration for food pairing. The pours themselves are probably served in whatever stemware survived the last dishwasher cycle — think basic, utilitarian, zero attention to varietal specifics.