Bacchus' Secret Cellar Wine Shoppe & Bar
6735 Quail Hill Pkwy
Irvine, CA 92603
Phone: (949) 502-4600
Irvine, CA 92603
Phone: (949) 502-4600
Little Tastes
04/03/2008 Posted by fooodi
I have been here 2 times & liked it. I thought the costly tastes were short. I enjoyed the wine & had bought a couple of bottles. I wanted to share one with the bar & they wanted to charge me a corkage fee. Ok, bought the wine there, everyone had their glass already. I thought that was ridiculous, as we had all been spending money like crazy there. I will go back cuz it is close.
Pros: Nice location
Cons: Small pours, difficult layout, bar s/b bigger
Response from this business
Response to Little Tastes
Posted on 05/23/2008
We offer over 75 menu items. All priced very fairly relative to bars/restaurants. If someone chooses to open a bottle in the bar we do not have a problem with it. If you bought a bottle at a bar/restaurant you would probably pay 2 to 3 times retail. We don't do that. The $10 dollar fee is to help cover overhead in the bar which is 3 or 4 times the overhead of our retail space. With the growth of wine bar/retail combinations a service fee for opening bottles in the bar is commonplace.
As to the bar size; we recently received a new liquor license that allows us to serve through out the store. We have added table seating areas that have doubled our bar capacity.
Our state of the art preservation system is pre-calibrated to cut down on waste. The tastes are priced according to bottle cost. It is very important to us to serve the freshest wine possible.
Thanks for your continued support. I hope this explains our policies.
Brian
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