Comments on: West End Wine Bar

By: Outdoor Dining Spots | Carpe Durham

Outdoor Dining Spots | Carpe Durham — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:58:26 +0000

[...] West End Wine Bar, 601 Main Street, Carpe Durham Review. [...]

By: fooddude

fooddude — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:37:08 +0000

Aw, crap, really? Batakias is like some nine-headed overpriced mediocre food hydra. Somebody please find the central one and cut that off.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:05:21 +0000

My wife and I stumbled into WEWB on New Year’s Day (as well as several trips since) and enjoyed the wine and lite fare options available. Since we are the 40′s crowd the early hours group fits our lifestyle but we also are young at heart. People watching as the crowd transitioned as the evening progressed was enjoyable. If you are looking for dinner, go to a restaurant. If you are looking for a nice wine haunt, WEWB is worth a go. We’ll be back.

By: Gary Brandenberg

Gary Brandenberg — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:16:07 +0000

Wish we had something like that in Naples, Florida. Our only wine bar closed because the coffee part of it (PJ’s Coffee) was outsold by the Sbux across the street. Gary

By: MEZ

MEZ — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:41:25 +0000

Thanks for the update, Chris. That must be a fairly recent change–I don’t think I noticed platter options when I was there but I could be wrong. Definitely makes an evening of wine more appetizing…

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:51:40 +0000

A quick update — back to the West End Wine Bar last night — a more sedate crowd again, at least until 10:30 when we moved on.

More importantly, it seems like they have received good feedback on the pricing of the “tapas” — they now offer platters of 2 or 3 meat & cheese choices plus bread and an extra for $10 or $14. Seems much more reasonable — we’ll give it a shot on our return visit!

By: MEZ

MEZ — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:58:45 +0000

Thanks Sant, I had read that at BCR, too. I wasn’t a big fan of the space at George’s Garage but did like the food. We’ll see if the new digs will be an improvement or not.

By: MEZ

MEZ — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:57:33 +0000

Excellent description of the differences in feel between the two spots! I’m intrigued, though, do you think establishments shouldn’t close for private parties?

By: MEZ

MEZ — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:54:07 +0000

Their Franklin Street outpost also did daytime coffee for awhile, which was the perfect spot for my writing group to meet in the mornings, but they also stopped that, due to bad parking in the area. I look forward to daytime hours returning at both spots sometime soon–they make great coffee houses!

By: Sant

Sant — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:24:02 +0000

Just a heads up, Bull City Rising and Durham magazine reports that the closed George’s Garage on Ninth St. will be reopening under the name George in a space neat WEWB.