Suggestions please: any leads on LA-area restaurants that offer "wine flights," small glasses of multiple different wines along a theme (year, varietal, winery, region, etc.)?
Jeff Shore
Feb 23, 2001 04:47PM
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The Chart House in Redondo Beach offers a surprisingly good selection - 4 different flights, as I remember from a visit last week. The restaurant is a quality steakhouse, one of the best in the area.
Another option is Soleil in Manhattan Beach, which offers an exceptional over fifty wines by the glass with three sizes of glasses, 2, 4, or 6 ounce. With that kind of selection you can create a flight of your own, or have the bar manager (a savvy fellow who really knows his wines) create one for you. The food there is very good French/Mediterranean, and the place is worth a visit.
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Great suggestion - we will definitely check it out! And, as long as I have your attention: do you have the phone number for Antoinette's French Creperie? I believe you gave it a good review in the Easy Reader, and I cannot find a listing on any internet phone directory. I know where it is, but I wanted to find out their weekend hours.
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The number is 310-802-1595. Antoinette's is open from 9 AM until 8 PM on weekends and is closed Monday - in theory. Sometimes they're open later, depending on the whim of the owner. They are in a blink-and-you-miss-it storefront location and their dining room actually isn't open yet. (The city won't let them open the seating space due to lack of parking, so your choices are to get crepes to go, eat them outside on the benches (not reccommended today due to inclement weather), or sit in their tiny waiting area. The family that runs the place are Corsicans and only one of them speaks much English - what they do if he doesn't show up I can't imagine. They are lovely people, the crepes are excellent and the prices are subterranean, so it's worth putting up with a bit of discomfort to enjoy their food.
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Fabiolous in Hollywood!
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This was a couple years ago, but I enjoyed a small flight of wines and an appetizer at the bar at Cafe del Rey before catching plane. I don't remember whether the restaurant regularly serves flights - I just asked the bartender to set me up with half glasses of what he felt was most interesting.
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The Marina Beach Mariott has a nice fine dining restaurant called Stones. They offer a Do-it Yourself wine flight. $9.00 for your choice of any 4 wines. It is a great value. The artichoke stuffed with sun dried tomato gnocci is one of the best and cheapest appetizers anywhere($8.00) and is big enough to easily be a vegetarian entree. I can't wait to go back.
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Newcomer Napa Valley Grill in Westwood offers an appetizer tasting menu and the chef matches wine with your appetizer choices. Louise's Trattoria on Melrose [sure other locale's do too] actually offers a wine flight--fun for the novice but mediocre if you're a pro. And The Little Door in Hollywood has an extensive selection of wines offered by the glass. I love wine, champagne, and beer flights--wish more places offered them. Hope others have more suggestions.
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I've had varietal flights at the Tam O'Shanter in Los Feliz. Not super fine dining, but good old school prime rib place.
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