Wed 9 May 2007
Bodega Wine Bar: Tuesday’s Bottle o’ Wine for $20
Posted by Caroline on Crack under Los Angeles, Nightlife -
Not only do I love Bodega Wine Bar for their fab happy hour ($5 glass of wine, $13 carafe, $21 bottle, $3 appetizers) but they now how these great specialty nights to further entice me into becoming a big, fat wino. Thursday nights feature KCRW dj Cathy Tamkin and Sundays are Service Industry Night where you get happy hour prices and $1 sake shots all night. But the best has to be Andrew Jackson Night on Tuesdays.
“Does that mean we have to get the Andrew Jackson wine?” my dear friend Erin asked when we checked out the happy hour last night. Nope, that means $20 for a whole bottle of wine all night long; usually a bottle is $30. Very nice. It’s a great deal when sharing a bottle with 2 or 3 friends, not so much with four unless you’re visiting apres happy hour.
Last night we split bottles of the petite syrah and the cabernet franc, both very lovely full-bodied reds. These went especially well with our two orders of the pepperoni pizza — damn good pizza. Anyhoo, there’s nothing like ending a long, hard work day (the week just started!) in a nice loungy setting with a good bottle of vino…or two.
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May 9th, 2007 at 7:03 am
There’s also a Bodega in Pas. $20 is a good deal. But to call these places wine bars is a bit of a stretch. When every glass is the same price that sort of eliminates stepping up in quality, flights, verticals, etc.
May 9th, 2007 at 8:54 am
Yeah, that Pasadena Bodega is owned by the same guy. As for whether this has a right to call itself a wine bar, I have to say that I disagree with you, Hollywood.
The wine here is pretty good and I like that they all have the same price. It eliminates the misconception that you have to pay $14 for a decent glass of wine.
May 10th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Of course, any place can call itself a wine bar, but if it doesn’t have flights, if it doesn’t have verticals, if it doesn’t have the ability to provide different quality wines for purposes of comparison then it’s not really a wine bar. You wanna have that $14 glass or $7 pour so you compare it to the $8 glass or $4 pour to see how the latter measures up (maybe it’s better). It’s like having a cocktail bar that only uses well liquor. Or a beer garden that only has a limited selection of bottled beer and nothing on tap. Just sayin’. Cheers!And btw, I thought Bodega’s cheese and fruit plate was sad.