Looking for a restaurant with a nice wine list. Personally I’m not a wine drinker and know some of you are on here and figured you could recommend some places.
Fill me in on the hot spots around here. Thanks peoples.
Fishbone has a huge wine list so does Shango on Main street in buffalo.
You really need to know what you like before you go looking at wine lists.
Fancy place with long list wont guarantee that you will like it…
unless this is just a ploy to get laid… lol
Lol totally true, I know the differences between the wines and some regions that I would like… but some wine lists its like… annnnndndddddd lost…
Shango is a great place to bring a lady to get laid thats for sure. I love that place
edit: yikes… that came off rather valley girl… like totally… 
Yeah, a larger, more impressive wine list will just make your decision difficult if you dont know what you like. Try some place with a large by-the-glass list so you can try them for $7+/glass rather than $50-200+/bottle, or go to a wine tasting, one with wines from around the world, not just NY/Ontario crap. FYI wine by the bottle at a restaurant typically runs twice as expensive as it would be at a liquor store.
Bacchus has a very large by the glass list…
Bachus (sp?)
or seriously…go to Pizza Plant on Transit, I believe they do little samplers
I know the guy that sells them their wine and he always has quality stuff
hahaha buy some candles a bottle of arbort mist and a pizza.
The food place isn’t what get’s you laid.
Decent wine lists:
Black and Blue
Sonoma Grille
Siena
However, if you want to do it right, go to Premier on Transit, and talk to the huge guy who’s balding on top, with a ponytail. He’ll steer you in the right direction.
Also, don’t be afraid of Aussie wines!
That place is pretty good, their gumbo is also decent but they seem to think it is the best in the area but that crown belongs to kentucky gregs.
ummm the place across the street from Toro on elmwood had a huge wine list… I can’t remember the name though, would be a great place to take a date to impress, super trendy atmosphere, really nice plating presentations and a wine list that is a book.
edit: it is called nektar, and it is kinda pricey, dunno what your price range was but last time i was there with the wife dinner for the two of us was like $80
tantalus
both of the bordo’s (don has great taste in wine)
the roycroft (talk to dave. he will tell you what to order)
san marco
and all of the suggestions bracketracer made
remember, a huge wine list isn’t always a good wine list.
Right next to Toro is Europa, small place mostly german/polish food. Great wines can get nearly all of them by the glass and 99% of the time they open the bottle right in front of you.
Mode also has a great list but is pricey.
Aroma, pricey as well.
Toro, pricey (and personally I dont like their food, I know people that do though)
Damn. Thanks for the advice everyone. Looks like it’s time to take a look at some of these places.
The whole cook it at home thing doesn’t really work for me since my room mates are almost always here on weekends and tend to just lay around the house.
tantalus, fiamma, hutch’s, tempo, seabar, mothers, leftbank…
tantalus always seems to have good food, but i just cannot get over the cokehead/asshole owner, the fact that his dog is in the kitchen and one of the guys he has making food looks homeless.
:tup:
i had forgotten about leftbank and mothers.
i wasnt big on seabar, but i am at the place next door a lot, Trattoria Aroma. there is another one down on Bryant where the old Just Pasta was.
my old lady is in italy right now, and it pisses me off that she can go to a different wine and cheese bar for ever meal of the day, and they are basically nonexistent here.
melting pot in the galleria has like 400 different wines or something like that.Was there the other night and couldnt believe all the wine they served.
I love Trattoria Aroma and you are right, western new york definitely needs a really good wine bar. We have plenty of full service restaurants that serve killer wine but none that just have an amazing wine list and just serve cheeses and small plates. Its always been a dream of mine to open a “wine bar” along with a cigar lounge that also serves a small selection of interesting food. Someday…
I read on buffalo rising that they were going to open a wine and specialty beer bar in the old Solid Grounds on Elmwood & Bryant. I’ll try to find the article.
edit, here it is:
http://www.buffalorising.com/story/wine_thief_on_elmwood
^
thats awesome
if you open it, i know at least 20 people that would be there all the time. it needs to be in williamsville, east aurora, or elmwood area though.
we hang out at brodo (a wine and soup bar) a lot. they have a full menu, but you can also go in and just get a bowl of soup, or great app and a bottle.
thursdays they have live jazz. its always a good time.